POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE

Postpartum Hemorrhage is the leading cause of maternal mortality in the world due to insufficient blood clot by the mother leading to fatal blood loss. Current methods used to determine if the mothers blood will clot or not are both unclear and time inefficient leading to a higher mortality rate. If there was a device that could determine if a patients blood will clot both accurately and timely, the death rate for women in labor would be drastically decreased. Luckily there is. Cal Poly Biomedical graduate student Sara Della Ripa, has developed a device that diagnoses if the blood will clot within two minutes of testing and is very accurate. Working with her this quarter, we want to help her refine her design to make it the most affordable and sustainable device on the market.