METHOD OF RECOGNIZING THE RISK OF PRETERM BIRTH CONSISTING IN OBSERVING THE UTERINE ACTIVITY BASED ON THE ANALYSIS OF UTERINE CONTRACTIONS AND ARRANGEMENT FOR PERFORMING THEREOF
A method of recognizing the risk of preterm birth consisting in observing the uterine activity based on uterine contraction analysis characterized in that the uterine activity of a patient is monitored continually, in the context of her movement activity and an arrangement for performing this method are disclosed. The arrangement is characterised by at least one mobile sensor module (1), is connected via its connector (13) to a home station (2) connector (23). The home station can be connected through a wireless communication modem (24) to the data storage (31) on a server (3). The data storage (31) can be then connected to an Internet interface (41) of a computer (4), or connected directly by the USB module (25) to the USB module (42) of the computer (4). In the method of recognizing the risk of preterm birth consisting in observing the uterine activity based on the analysis of uterine contractions, the uterine activity of a patient is monitored continually, in the context of her movement activity, by an accelerometer and data obtained from this monitoring are simultaneously measured, transmitted and stored in a mobile sensor module and compared and evaluated consequently by application software (5) using filtration and analysis algorithms of measured data by a method enabling consequential detection of uterine contractions, their frequency and intensity, evaluation of their causes and severity level depending on movement activity of the patient and distinguishing a group of contractions occurred when the patient was in relative calmness and group of contractions occurred when the patient was moving.
