Dr. Neil Euliano This is Me

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1. 1. e4engineering.com - Engineering news, engineering information and engineering jobs for engineering professionals

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   Published on: 1/17/2005   Last Visited: 1/18/2005

   And at present, that problem hasn't been resolved sufficiently for noninvasive EKG monitors to reach the market, added Neil Euliano, president of Convergent Engineering, the Gainesville, FL-based biomedical engineering company involved in the project.

2. 2. Tenafly Times: Health & Nature Archives November 2004 - UF source available to comment on medicinal marijuana use - New fetal heart monitor could give better health picture during labor, say UF researchers

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   The problem hasn't been resolved sufficiently for noninvasive EKG monitors to reach the market, said Neil Euliano, Ph.D., a UF courtesy assistant professor of anesthesiology and president of Convergent Engineering, a Gainesville-based biomedical engineering company involved in the project.
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   The main component of the system is a complex mathematical program called MERMAID that separates data from multiple sources faster and more efficiently than its competition, Neil Euliano said. MERMAID stands for Minimum Renyi's Mutual Information, a shorthand description of the program's data-sorting strategy.
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   If further testing and refinement shows the new system is reliable and applicable to clinical situations, a commercial version could be marketed in three to four years, Neil Euliano said.

3. 3. Fetal EKG may reduce C-sections - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - January 10, 2005

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   Published on: 1/10/2005   Last Visited: 1/13/2005

   Her husband, Neil Euliano, an assistant professor of anesthesiology at the university and a fellow researcher, agreed. "When this [ultrasound] system was adopted [more than 40 years ago], the Caesarean delivery rate in the United States was about 5 percent." Largely because of increases in deliveries prompted by abnormal heart rate patterns, he said the Caesarean rate is now higher than 25 percent. "There have been some preliminary studies by other groups that say fetal EKG is a more accurate predictor than ultrasound of how the baby's doing during labor," Dr. Euliano said. She added: "Currently, the only way to get that information is with what's called a scalp electrode." But she noted that the use of a scalp electrode is limited to the final stages of labor. Dr. Euliano and some other University of Florida physicians are working with a private engineering firm, headed by her husband, to develop what could be the first commercial monitoring system to noninvasively detect electrical activity in the baby's heart. The team, she said, already has developed a fetal EKG that is more effective than ultrasound in distinguishing the baby's heartbeat from that of its mother or from uterine contractions, muscle movement or other noise. "Our EKG is so much tinier; it can tell for sure if it's the baby's heartbeat," she said. The new system uses sensors placed on the mother's abdomen with an adhesive, so it could be used at any time during labor. It could be used even earlier for mothers with medical conditions, such as diabetes and heart disease, which can place their babies at greater risk for complications. The team believes the new system, once refined, may detect abnormal fetal heart rhythms, distinguish false labor from early labor and track the mother's heart rate and the strength of her uterine contractions. "The goal of our project is to find something in the electrocardiogram that maybe will help improve outcomes," Mr. Euliano said. He said that ultrasound fetal monitoring, which has been used for more than 40 years, "has not improved outcomes."
   
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