Uterine contractility recording (Montevideo units)
Registro de la contractilidad uterina (unidades Montevideo)
- Date
- 1947-1950 · confidence medium
- Place
- Hospital de Clínicas, Montevideo, Uruguay
- Credited to
- Roberto Caldeyro-Barcia and Hermógenes Álvarez
- People
- 👤 Hermógenes Álvarez1905–1984👤 Roberto Caldeyro Barcia1921–1996
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
Measurement of intrauterine pressure with catheters during labour, and definition of Montevideo units to quantify contractions. It laid the foundations of electronic fetal monitoring.
What it led to
- cardiotocography
- rational use of oxytocin in labour
- the Latin American Centre for Perinatology