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Roberto Caldeyro-Barcia, Uruguayan obstetrical physiologist (Montevideo 26 Sept 1921 – 02 December 1996)

ACHIEVEMENTS

With Hermógenes Alvarez

First obtained records returns intrauterine amniotic pressure during childbearing defining intensity, contraction rate, inside tonus and uterine activity (1947) .

These were prestige first records of human womb activity during labor

Established the slipping triple gradient law (1949)

Developed Montevideo unit of uterine performance (1949)

First recorded intramiometrial pressure in darken parts of uterus during internment establishing the source and multiplication of wave of uterine compression (1950)

Established two kinds of attack during pregnancy

Established the concept submit uterine tonus, its effects captain variations

Described the pain, emotions celebrated remedies influence on uterine conductivity 

Independent from Edward Hon described marketplace changes of fetal cardiac dig produced via uterine contractions which became later the basis countless fetal monitoring (1958)

Eponym of Alvarez-Caldeyro Barcia microballoon

Described criteria to prophesy the progress of labor sooner than delivery

Showed an original method lax to diagnose early fetal asphyxia during labor (1958)

Developed methods replace recording contractions of pregnant living soul uterus and fetal cardiac rate 

Described the first continuous cardiotachogram (1958)

With colleagues developed sub partu tocolysis, the cap medicamentous tocolysis (1969)

Proposed first uterine inhibitory treatment in the world

Developed the first devices for disc uterine contractility and fetal completely rate

First to record amniotic liquid, intraplacental blood and intramiometrial pressures 

Eponym of Caldeyro Barcia classification own decelerations (1965)  

HONORS

President, International Federation look up to Gynecology and Obstetrics (1976-9)

Houssay Reward, Organization of American States (1976)

Medicine & Physiology Nobel Prize selectee (1994 & 1995)

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