June 28, 2024: A reduction in the number of newborn deaths in Africa is possible thanks to Rice University researchers.– Women researchers at Rice University have invented a device that can help keep more newborns alive in Africa.“An African newborn is more than ten times more likely to die than a newborn born in the United States,” Rebecca Richards-Kortum, one of the researchers, tells KPRC 2 Health Reporter Haley Hernandez.
Researchers are working with tools that are considered standard in any American neonatal intensive care unit , such as blood tests for jaundice. And they are also using modified inventions to detect jaundice that don’t cost as much as what you see in American NICUs. Hypothermia causes many newborn deaths in Africa and the group has designed a device that not only keeps babies warm, it also can alert nurses when someone is struggling, which is important since many nurses can get overwhelmed by the ratio of babies to nurses.
“Every hospital we visited had a room called the Equipment Graveyard, and it was full of broken equipment that couldn’t withstand the harsh environmental conditions that heat, the humidity, that dust, or people couldn’t source spare parts,” Richards-Kortum said. “We’re both engineers, we’re both moms. And that trip was really transformational and wanting to partner with local clinicians, local engineers to improve that situation.
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