2010 Appropriate Technology for a Mobile Maternity Clinic
Team Members: Danielle Beeve, Karthik Kothandapani, Christopher Richardson, Syed Abdul Aziz
Capstone Clients: Nick Pearson, Entrepreneur, Nairobi, Kenya; Megan Huchko, M.D, MPH, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, UCSF
Purpose/Goal:
Maternal health is of paramount importance in both the developing and developed nations. In East Africa, mobile material health clinics would benefit from low-cost technology that allows fetal heart rate monitoring that can easily differentiate between maternal and fetal heart rates. The team introduced a self-contained monitoring diagnostic that readily differentiates maternal from fetal heart rates.