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D J Rouse

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PubMed1993

Fundal height as a predictor of preterm twin delivery.

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether fundal height might predict early delivery in twin pregnancies; that is, whether larger fundal heights predispose to earlier delivery. METHODS: From the charts of 336 well-dated twin pregnancies, we generated a series of fundal height curves. RESULTS: Within our population of twin pregnancies, the mean fundal height at any given gestational age did not differ between pregnancies delivered before 34 weeks and those delivered at or after 34 weeks. A single fundal height measurement above the 90th percentile before 34 weeks yielded a sensitivity of 23% and a specificity of 79% for delivery before 34 weeks, with a positive predictive value of 38% and a negative predictive value of 64%. CONCLUSION: Factors other than uterine overdistention (as measured by fundal height) must be implicated in preterm twin delivery.

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PubMed1991

NASA spinoffs to bioengineering and medicine.

Through the active transfer of technology, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Technology Utilization (TU) Program assists private companies, associations, and government agencies to make effective use of NASA's technological resources to improve U.S. economic competitiveness and to provide societal benefit. Aerospace technology from areas such as digital image processing, space medicine and biology, microelectronics, optics and electrooptics, and ultrasonic imaging have found many secondary applications in medicine. Examples of technology spinoffs are briefly discussed to illustrate the benefits realized through adaptation of aerospace technology to solve health care problems. Successful implementation of new technologies increasingly requires the collaboration of industry, universities, and government, and the TU Program serves as the liaison to establish such collaborations with NASA. NASA technology is an important resource to support the development of new medical products and techniques that will further advance the quality of health care available in the U.S. and worldwide.

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Methodology for NASA technology transfer in medicine.

A major tenet of NASA's program for technology transfer in medicine is the active involvement of clinicans, the medical device industry, and government health agencies in the transfer process. To ensure availability of the NASA technology to the entire medical community, NASA's methodology emphasizes projects that lead to the development of commercially available medical products incorporating NASA technology. The development of an improved artificial sphincter is an example of a successful transfer of aerospace technology to medicine. Early collaboration between the medical device industry and NASA was critical to the success of this effort to reduce patient risk and health care costs by the incorporation of high-reliability aerospace components in a new prosthesis.

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