• Question: has your project saved someone's life yet or are you still working on creating it?

    Asked by giulia_casonato to Rebecca, Julia, Krishnaa, Laura, Si on 20 Jun 2016. This question was also asked by MalekJ11289.
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      Rebecca Pullon answered on 20 Jun 2016:

      Hi!

      Not yet. I’m still working on creating it! Our clinical trial has not yet finished, so until we have all the data, we can’t create the final product that will be implemented in hospitals. What we are aiming for is an early warning system that will alert when women are likely to become ill or develop complications during pregnancy. By identifying these early we are hoping the number of maternal deaths will reduce, but in the UK these numbers are already quite small, so realistically it will mean reducing the number of complications during pregnancy, which is just as important. We are confident our system will have a big impact because the current system used in hospitals for pregnant women is not based on evidence (ie. a large clinical trial, like ours).

      I hope that answers your question 🙂

      Rebecca

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