Solution

Introducing our breakthrough product, DelivAssure

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Clinicians will finally be able to make critical evidence-based decisions with continuous lactate data

Our FDA Breakthrough Device designated biosensor provides obstetricians with real-time lactate data, accurately detecting fetal distress.

Rising lactate is visible in real time

Deterioration can be recognized without delay and intervention can occur before permanent brain damage.

Numerical data, quantitative decisions

An objective, numerical indicator for intervention could dramatically reduce avoidable c-sections.

Designed for adoption

Familiar form factor and insertion to fetal scalp electrodes (already used in ¼ women in labor).

Obstetricians believe DelivAssure will be used in 70% of patients

Our impact

Better health outcomes

Reducing neonatal death and lifelong brain injury with a direct measure of fetal wellbeing.
Less unnecessary c-sections, less complications – reduced infection, bleeding, uterine complications.
A wireless form-factor allows for maternal movement – movement reduces pain and epidural rates.

Clearer decisions

Easier, more precise decisions can be made by obstetricians, even remotely.
Real-time, numerical decisions based on existing guidelines.
Insertion is identical to a fetal scalp electrode, already used in 22% of births.

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More cost-effective

Poor fetal monitoring creates a US$7.4B health economic burden in the US annually.
Fewer complications and interventions reduce the length of hospital stay.
Clearer decision-making for diagnosis minimizes liability.

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Why Lactate?

Lactate is the gold-standard biomarker for assessing tissue hypoxia and metabolic stress, with robust clinical validation in childbirth.

Lactic acid is a byproduct of anerobic metabolism.
When oxygen is present and readily available, the human body generates energy in the form of ATP by producing pyruvate from glucose.

When oxygen is limited, pyruvate is broken down into lactate. As oxygen decreases, lactate levels within the body increase.

Lactate levels provide a direct indication of anaerobic metabolism and impaired perfusion. This makes lactate a more reliable and immediate indicator of physiological distress. Elevated lactate is highly specific to hypoxia – it’s an unambiguous, numerical and actionable biomarker.