00:00It's news no mother wants to hear.
00:05There are times during the birth of my daughter where her heart rate couldn't be detected.
00:11Emily Stone says it added an extra layer of stress to an already traumatic experience.
00:17If this device was available it just would have given me greater peace of mind that she was healthy and safe.
00:22It is really the first breakthrough in fetal monitoring that we've had since the 1960s.
00:29The machine developed by a WA med tech company along with researchers from the universities of WA and Sydney can monitor oxygen levels in babies during labour.
00:39We developed a technology that's quite similar to the kinds of sensors that people with diabetes use to measure their glucose in real time.
00:49The world first providing more accurate data than the current method which relies on a heart rate monitor.
00:55Sometimes miss babies who are not getting oxygen all that well and at other times the diagnosis of when they're not getting enough oxygen might be significantly delayed.
01:05And the consequence of that for babies is really devastating.
01:10Low oxygen levels during birth can cause brain damage and cerebral palsy and in extreme cases death.
01:17It allows us to better identify those babies who are compromised but I think equally as important it allows us to reduce the interventions that we apply unnecessarily to women.
01:27It will helpfully halve the rate of emergency caesarean section which is a real profound improvement in health outcomes for mothers.
01:35The monitor has been seven years in the making with the WA government providing funding for its early development.
01:41While still in its trial stages it's hoped it will receive regulatory approval by 2027.
01:47To get a link to the right to the MMORPY.
01:55This is the point of the focus here.
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02:03This is the case from a FM city that has generated a lot of influence.
02:05And it has been planted by 212.
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