HTTP:: New Bedsheet Technology for Maternity Wards
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Auxiliary maternity nurse Astrid Skreosen got fed up one day with all the bedsheets that her maternity wards had. None was too good to fit the actual beds on which women gave birth, and they were also not absorbent enough to cope with a restless birth process. So, she was referred to SINTEF Materials and Chemistry expert Per Stenstad, with whom she devised a new type of material, just one millimeter thick, but able to absorb large amounts of wastes and blood, AlphaGalileo reports. “Restless women in labor and unstable mats made problems for everyone. None of these underlays fitted the delivery beds, and we were wading in fetal fluids and blood. I was just as irritated by people who said that we shouldn’t complain, but just make the best of things,†the nurse says of the reasons that drove her to take matters into her own hands, and stop complaining to those hierarchically above her. She decided to team up with SINTEF after some unpleasant experiences with inventor a!
dvisers. “The principle of an absorbent polymer material is well known. It functions rather like a nappy. In this case, the challenge was that the sheet must be only a millimeter thick, without letting dampness pass through it. The set of sheets also had to consist of two parts in order to be suitable for the labor bed...
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