High-risk Pregnancy

Welcome to Catex Mother Hub,
Your Connected Care Solution!
Concerned about the health and safety of the mother and child?

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Plug into the Catex Mother Hub for

  • Free Online Health Record
  • Integrated Fetal Doppler and BP Monitor
  • 24×7 Vitals Tracking
  • Symptom Monitoring
  • Daily Calls by Nurses
  • Nurse Guidance and Support for Family
  • Video Consultation with Treating Doctor

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Why do you need monitoring during a high-risk pregnancy?

REASON 01

A pregnancy is considered high-risk when there are potential complications that could threaten the health or life of the pregnant mother or her baby


REASON 02

A majority of women who are diagnosed as having high-risk pregnancies are advised bed rest or restricted activity with strict monitoring

REASON 03

There is a constant fear of the occurrence of an undetected complication

Getting connected to the Catex Mother Hub ensures:

Goals of managing high-risk pregnancy are:

To ensure that gestational age is as near term as possible in other words to ensure that the delivery happens at the designated time and not early (preterm)

To have a higher birth weight

No admissions or less days in nursery for the new born child

Less frequent admission in the NICU for the baby

No medical complications for the mother


How does the Catex Mother Hub work?

STEP 1

Evaluation and treatment advice by the treating doctor

The treating doctor conducts a thorough evaluation that takes place at the hospital or at the doctor’s clinic. This includes

  • Detailed medical history
  • Thorough medical examination
  • Recording of clinical parameters including
    • Current therapy
    • Other medication advice
    • Diet prescription
    • Fetal monitoring – fetal heart and fetal movement
STEP 2

Home management

Daily monitoring and documentation of history by Catex Health Nurse in patient record of key symptoms, such as abdomen pain, decreased urine output, swelling on face and ankles, change in vision, leaking, bleeding PV, foetal movement count, etc.

Catex Mother Hub blends cutting-edge technology with healthcare expertise to assist and enable patients to enjoy enhanced quality of life in the comfort of their homes, without the fear of being unsupervised at any time.

STEP 3

Monitoring and real-time integration of clinical parameters in patient record

The patient is provided a Bluetooth-enabled weighing machine, SpO2 monitor, BP monitor and/or a six-parameter full monitor, depending on the requirement.

The patient and their family are educated on the use of these devices to record readings, which would then seamlessly get integrated into their cloud-based health record through their smart-phone. Some of the parameters that will be recorded are:

  • Weight
  • Blood pressure
  • Blood sugar – as indicated
  • Urine albumin
  • EKG – as required
  • Heart rate – as required
  • SpO2 – as required
  • Fetal heart monitoring
STEP 4

In case of any alarm based on the treating doctor’s advice, the following courses of action are available:

  • Nurse will guide the patient’s family on immediate action to be taken as per documented doctor’s advice
  • Nurse will call the treating doctor and ask for further course of treatment (if any)
  • Patient can book a video consultation with the treating doctor
  • Patient can be advised physical consultation/admission as per doctor’s orders
There are many studies proving the benefits of monitoring. To know more about them, please click here .

The Catex Mother Hub service offers two levels of care:

Active

This service is primarily for patients who are stable but bedridden or have restricted physical activity.

  • 24×7, real-time monitoring of vitals such as blood pressure, ECG, blood oxygen level, temperature, heart rate and respiration rate.
  • The Catex Health Nurse will supervise and guide medications, diet, record symptoms and all other doctors’ orders.
  • The treating doctor has access to all your medical records and monitoring data on their mobile phone and can be contacted over a video call if needed.

Assisted

This service is primarily for patients who are otherwise stable but require monitoring to prevent complications from developing.

  • Daily monitoring and automatic updating in the patients’ health record of the following.

    • Blood sugar
    • Blood pressure
    • Weight
    • Intake/output
  • Catex Health Nurse will call, enquire about symptoms, diet, medication, etc., and update the patient’s record as per international protocols or as ordered by the doctor.

  • In case any problem is detected or suspected, the nurse will escalate it to the treating doctor for advice.
  • Catex Health Nurse is available 24×7 on video call for any advice required or treatment needed.
  • The treating doctor has access to all your medical records and monitoring data on their mobile phone and can be contacted over a video call if required.

How to access Catex Mother Hub

Register here and we will contact you

Note: In case you need help in identifying the right doctor, Catex Health
executives will be happy to help you find the right one.

Information about the Disease

For most women, early and regular prenatal care promotes a healthy pregnancy and delivery without complications. But some women are at an increased risk for complications even before they get pregnant for a variety of reasons. Some of the factors are listed as under:

Factors that define high risk pregnancy

Maternal Age:

Women who are under 17 or over 35 when their baby is due are at greater risk.
Pre-exiating medical conditions that can create complications:

  • Anaemia
  • Malnutrition
  • High blood pressure
  • Diabetes
  • Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)
  • Chronic lung disease
  • Bad obstetric history
  • Chronic lung disease
  • Chronic heart disease
  • Chronic kidney disease
  • Thyroid disease
  • Substance abuse (alcohol/tobacco)
  • A history of miscarriage, problems with a previous pregnancy or pregnancies,
  • Family history of genetic disorders are also risk factors for a high-risk pregnancy.
  • Pregnancy with previous caesarean delivery

Medical conditions that occur during pregnancy:

  • Preeclampsia
  • Gestational diabetes
  • Multiple births
  • Placenta praevia

Fetal problems

  • Genetic disease
  • IUGR
  • Large-sized baby
  • Abnormal presentation or lie like breech

Home management of High risk pregnancy mothers

Requirements and challenges

A majority of women who are diagnosed as having high-risk pregnancies are advised bed rest or restricted activity, which could result in them being admitted in hospitals. In case they are at home, there is constant fear of the occurrence of an undetected complication.

The main components of management of high-risk pregnancies are:

Rest

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02

Monitoring and control of blood pressure

Recording of urine albumen level

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04

Monitoring and control of blood sugar

Weight monitoring

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06

Adherence to medication

Vitals monitoring

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08

Supervision by trained nurses or doctors

Dietary discipline

09

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Symptom monitoring, e.g., swelling on ankles, breathlessness, etc.

Patient and patient family education

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Foetal monitoring – foetal heart and foetal movement

Validation and Resources

There is a large body of research that indicates that monitoring of high-risk pregnancy patients in their
homes is beneficial to the patients and their family. The following is one of the studies:

An article published in PubMed (The US national Library of Medicine) titled “Telemedicine: cost-effective management of high-risk pregnancy” compared two groups of women one with telemedicine support and the other as per conventional treatment and came up with the following findings:

The telemedicine group had a significantly later mean gestational age at delivery (38.2 +/- 1.4 vs. 35.3 +/- 3.8)
Higher mean birth weight (3224 +/- 588 vs. 2554 +/- 911)

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