1. Point-of-care diagnostics to improve maternal and neonatal health in low-resource settings
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Chelsey A. Smith, Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Catherine E. Majors, Kathryn Kundrod, and Mary E. Natoli
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0301 basic medicine ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Low resource ,Maternal Health ,Point-of-Care Systems ,Point-of-care testing ,Biomedical Engineering ,Bioengineering ,Diagnostic tools ,Biochemistry ,Article ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Cost Savings ,Pregnancy ,Prenatal Diagnosis ,Infant Mortality ,medicine ,Humans ,Childbirth ,Infant Health ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Neonatal health ,Intensive care medicine ,Point of care ,business.industry ,Neonatal mortality ,Infant, Newborn ,Infant ,Equipment Design ,General Chemistry ,medicine.disease ,030104 developmental biology ,Female ,business - Abstract
Each day, approximately 830 women and 7,400 newborns die from complications during pregnancy and childbirth. Improving maternal and neonatal health will require bringing rapid diagnosis and treatment to the point of care in low-resource settings. However, to date there are few diagnostic tools available that can be used at the point of care to detect the leading causes of maternal and neonatal mortality in low-resource settings. Here we review both commercially available diagnostics and technologies that are currently in development to detect the leading causes of maternal and neonatal mortality, highlighting key gaps in development where innovative design could increase access to technology and enable rapid diagnosis at the bedside.
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- 2017
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