DEVICE FOR DETERMINING FOETAL RESERVES DURING CHILDBIRTH

摘要

A device for determining foetal reserves of a foetus during childbirth, provided with a tubular housing which is arranged to be inserted in use, into a vagina of a pregnant woman to reach a presenting part (generally a head) of the foetus, the tubular housing being provided at a first free extremity of the tubular housing with access means for obtaining access to body fluid such as blood or interstitial fluid of the foetus whose reserves need to be determined, the tubular housing being further provided with at least one contact-pH-sensor and/or one lactate-sensor for measuring, by means of contact between the body fluid and the pH-sensor and/or the lactate-sensor, the pH-value and/or a lactate-value, respectively, of the body fluid to which access has been obtained with the aid of the access means.