A robotic pelvis with the head of an artificial baby inside are the components of this labor simulator with forceps designed for the practice of medical students. The simulator has been developed in France, and aims to ensure that future obtetas know how to use forceps properly at birth, as safely as possible and without harming the baby.
The realism provided by this invention, baptized as "BirthSIM" (something like "BirthSIM", simulation) is for students to perform their practices by observing their maneuver on a screen. It has been developed by a team of French medical researchers in Lyon, together with computer experts from Canada.
BirthSIM is a life-size model of the mother's pelvis, with the artificial head of a baby hidden inside and mounted on a pneumatic arm that will mimic the movements of the baby at birth. During the simulation, the pneumatic arm pushes the baby's head forward.
Both the clamps and the baby's head have electromagnetic sensors that allow the Track your 3D movements on the screen. That way the student can see exactly what is happening as the tweezers move inside the pelvis, and see if they follow the right path or not.
BirthSIM can also give information about the amount of pressure the student is applying to the baby's head, to notify when it is excessive.
Remember that there is no mother or baby here who suffer, but this invasive technique in real life causes stress and pain in both the baby and the mother, so you have to limit your practice and perform it with the greatest skill and delicacy possible when be necessary.
So hopefully at the same time as it is practiced in this simulator of birth with forceps Professionals are instructed on how to favor the least instrumentalized delivery possible and that the use of these clamps should only be carried out in really necessary cases.
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