Correct assessment of pelvic and fetal diameter for delivering mothers is extremely important. If this is not done in the right manner then they might have to go for unnecessary labour which might at times turn fatal. Having seen all these traumatic situations, Bangalore based Dr Lavanya Kiran, consultant, obstetrics and gynecology at Narayana Health has designed an innovative instrument that decides the delivery process in pregnant women.
The instrument 'Pel-dia' will exactly access the pelvic and fetal diameter of the delivering mothers. Speaking to dna Dr Lavanya: "The equipment was designed in order to assess the pelvic diameter and also the baby's (fetus) diameter, which will help in avoiding maternal and fetal distress, morbidity and mortality. This also provides scope in the future to add parameters such as cervical dilatation assessment and facility to know the uterine pressure during labour and thus helping in taking a decision well in advance in order to reduce maternal and fetal morbidity."
When a woman goes into labour it is important to access if she is favorable for normal delivery or she has to undergo caesarian section. This is dependent on the parameters of baby's head and pelvic diameter to see if the baby can pass through the vagina. "As the currently available modality is subjective (assess the pelvic diameter by clinical assessment) expensive and at times patients can be taken up for a caesarian section unnecessarily by over diagnosis of Cephalo Pelvic Dispropotion (CPD) or at times due to under diagnosis letting a mother go through the labour pain for more then 8-10 hours and finally end up in caesarian section as the baby's head cannot come down or increased operative deliveries which in turn increases the maternal trauma/ morbidity, fetal distress and increased hospital stay either due to maternal cause or baby being in intensive care due to distress" she further stressed.
The instrument which is currently in its final stage is likely to be out in market in another 3-4 months. Dr Lavanya said: "The clinical trials will be carried on at Narayana Health and few other city hospitals before its launch." Meanwhile, Dr Lavanya recently bagged the first runner up award for 'Pel-dia' for the most innovative idea among 85 participants in designing instruments by CAMTech – USAID medical hack-a-thon.
Along with Dr Lavanya, the brain behind the concept, other five team members from various fields included- Nishanth, an mechanical engineer and founder of Embryo Medical device company Pune, Karthik from GE Bangalore, and three final year medical electronics engineering students from MSRIT Bangalore -Chetana Javali N, Sanjana U Shankar and Venkatapavani Pallavi.
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