Doppler ultrasound: Anything to control that the baby is well inside the uterus, welcome.
The doppler technique is a color ultrasound, which is used to measure and evaluate the flow of blood that circulates through the cavities and valves of the baby's heart.
It allows to know the amount of blood that is pumped with each beat, which is essential to determine the proper functioning of your heart, as well as to analyze the heart valves and the walls of the heart.
This helps to detect early any abnormality that the baby could have in order to act in the most convenient way at birth.
What is Doppler ultrasound for?
The doppler ultrasound It is also used to see the uterine arteries in cases of women at risk of hypertension during pregnancy or when there is suspicion of intrauterine growth retardation.
Umbilical arteries are also checked to ensure that blood flow and therefore nutrients and oxygen are properly reaching the baby.
According to Dr. Antonio González, head of the Obstetrics Service of the Maternal and Child Hospital of La Paz "the 'doppler' provides an early diagnosis of any abnormality of fetal health and is essential to adopt the most convenient obstetric behavior with guarantee".
Currently, hypertension or diabetes in the mother, cardiac malformations and problems with the umbilical cord and placenta, which can be controlled through Doppler, are the main factors that can endanger the health of the unborn baby.
In my first pregnancy I did not have any Doppler ultrasound, maybe it is derived in cases of possible suspicion.
But if it is so useful for detecting serious problems, it would be yours to be in the routine control program of all pregnancies, right?
