When the Strip Speaks in Two Languages: Why Generative AI Can Finally Help Us Read Fetal Monitoring Correctly

Obstetricians focus on the fetal heart rate. AI can restore what we have been missing all along: the uterus.

Cardiotocography (aka “fetal monitoring”) and the Promise We Forgot

Cardiotocography, known simply as “fetal monitoring” in American labor wards, arrived in the 1960s with an elegant premise. Two sensors. Two tracings. One captured the fetal heart rate as an indicator of fetal wellbeing; the other recorded uterine contractions as the physiologic stressor…