Patent Document ID: 8396540
Application ID: 12139201
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. An electronic fetal monitoring assessment tool for use with an Electronic Fetal Monitoring (EFM) system including: at least one sensor positionable on or about a patient to measure maternal uterine contraction information and fetal heart rate information; a data processor in combination with the at least one sensor to receive and process the maternal contraction information and the fetal heart rate information from the at least one sensor; a display in combination with the data processor, wherein the display visually communicates to a user the fetal heart rate information as a fetal heart rate tracing within a first coordinate structure and the maternal contraction information as a contraction line within a second coordinate structure, wherein the first coordinate structure comprises a plurality of vertical coordinates expressed as beats per minute and a plurality of horizontal coordinates expressed as seconds; the electronic fetal monitoring assessment tool comprising data processor executable instructions on a readable medium of the EFM, the instructions operating at least one electronic measurement tool that is manually selected using a user interface in combination with the EFM to automatically generate an electronically generated graphic indicator that is manually placed within the first coordinate structure or second coordinate structure on the display, wherein the electronically generated graphic indicator is visible on the display when positioned within the first coordinate structure or second coordinate structure, and the graphic indicator comprises an electronically generated range window movably positionable over the fetal heart rate tracing and spanning at least one range of vertical coordinates of the first coordinate structure, the electronically generated range window comprising a first window of a first vertical coordinate range spanning five beats per minute and a second window of a second vertical coordinate range spanning twenty-five beats per minute, wherein the first window is visually distinguishable from the second window.