A joint partnership announced today between the UN Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women and Children, the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc., the Safe Motherhood Program at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and the Blue Fuzion Group will reduce the cos

A new article on use of NASG in High Resource Settings: Using “sandwich technique” of NASG/Lifewrap and internal uterine compression balloon. Interesting, life-saving strategy to use with DIC. Read the article, “Nonpneumatic Antishock Garment Combined with Bakri Ball

CMQCC announces new PPH Toolkit (www.cmqcc.org), that includes NASG as a technology. Originally produced in 2010, the Toolkit has been completely revised.  Professor Miller has served on the Hemorrhage Toolkit Task Force since its inception.

Researchers from Guy’s and St. Thomas’ and King’s College London have developed the Microlife Vital Signs Alert (VSA), a handheld device that measures blood pressure and pulse to calculate the risk of shock.  Professor Suellen Miller of the Safe Motherhood Program advised the team dur

Jan 4, 2015: Professor Miller meets with Rwandan Scholars from the NGO “Open a Door” which provides educational opportunities for future women leaders from post-conflict countries (Rwanda, Afghanistan, Cambodia) for a leadership seminar.

A New article in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (BJOG) by UCSF Safe Motherhood Program and King’s College London finds Shock Index is a Superior Predictor of Adverse Outcomes in PPH. Read “Shock index: an effective predictor of outcome in postpartum haemo

The NASG was highlighted as “rescue treatment” in the latest review article on postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) by Andrew Weeks, The prevention and treatment of postpartum haemorrhage: what do we know, and where do we go next?, published in the January 2015 by BJOG. This review

FIGO’s Safe Motherhood and Newborn Health Committee, in collaboration with IPA, WRA, ICM, and WHO have published new guidelines for mother-baby friendly birthing facilities. These guidelines were developed in response to rising rates of abuse, neglect, and coercion of birthing women i

The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) has expanded its guidelines to include the NASG for treatment of hypovolemic shock secondary to obstetric hemorrhage. This recommendation demonstrates its confidence in the NASG by summarizing the published scientific tr

In November 2014, we arrived in Tanzania to launch the Ifakara Health Institute’s (IHI) Maternal Health intervention. The LifeWrap and mobile phones will be distributed across 8 rural districts and 278 health facilities. For the first level of training all Referral Facility staf