Real-time analysis of Doppler waveforms

The usefulness of objective analysis of Doppler waveforms is now well established but to date such measures have generally not been available in real-time. This Paper describes a real-time data analysis and collection system in use with a duplex scanner which is capable of producing objective measures of waveform shape during the investigation. It is shown as an example that this information can be used to identify, with high accuracy, babies likely to be classified at birth as distressed as early as the 34th week of pregnancy.