Giving newborns 'air to breathe'

The first breath child can easily take for granted. But, according to the World Health Organization, each year about one million children die, because they have problems breathe.Most these deaths occur in developing countries where resuscitation machines are very expensive.However, the device is designedthat can save more of these new data lives.Dr Santorino a pediatrician at the University of Mbarara in Uganda, about 190 miles from the capital, Kampala.He invented a gadget that can help give infants breathing difficulty emergency care they nuzhna.Eto recently called or supplemented infants Fan air.

FeedbackThis bit of kit that attaches conventional resuscitation bag, and provides feedback in real-time about how good the teacher, the child SLR.Izobretatel Dr. data explains: "If the child is not breathing, you should get a resuscitation bag to help your child ademen.Als I help the child to breathe,my green screen and tells me my flow OK. But if I call such a leak occurs, the screen becomes red, and he tells me that there is a leak. "The moment to mention the difference because doctors have only few minutes to get the baby breathing again .DR data is currently working with his colleagues,device.Margaret air to try to split the fifth year medical student at Mbarara universiteta.Ona says that the best thing about his unit just a warning color. "Even a layman can use it," she says. "Red for danger, and if you're green, you're good data gaan.Dr believes that it will take five years,that innovations are used in real-life situatsiyah.Eto it can not come soon enough for his mother, Edith Wakid, in Uganda.Soon after the birth of her twins in 2014, joy turned to fear. "I just heard a baby crying, and I remember Godfrey, my husband sat beside me.I asked him if the two babies were still alive, and he said yes.I looked when I got to my room and left the children in the theater. "Fortunately, in the case of Edith, when one of her children, Jason, had trouble breathing, he received proper treatment and survived.The air device, which costs about $ 20-25 each, was designed with an emphasis on developing countries, but the doctor says .Santorino interest that even the richest hospitals.And This led to a collaboration with doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital in the United States, which helps to clarify the technical aspects of the device.

Dr. Chris Olson leads the team in Boston, working on dizaynom.On says: "We learned that 20% of suppliers, immediately after training in intensive careartificial respiration and the air can not help ..

"The project is financed by saving the lives of the consortium at birth and Innovation Award of the Consortium for affordable medical technology.