Beyond Mother's Day

We at Gauss Surgical are proud to sponsor this year's March for Moms and help highlight for Americans the scourge of pregnancy-related mortality and morbidity. We focus on maternal health every day - including Mother's Day.

Recognizing that hemorrhage is the leading preventable cause of pregnancy-related death in the United States, Gauss set out to create a technology that would help limit those deaths and give clinicians a better view of how to treat new moms in the delivery room.

Harnessing the power of AI, computer vision, and machine learning, we developed Triton, an FDA-cleared technology for monitoring blood loss during surgery in real time to enable early recognition of a hemorrhage.

Clinical studies published in peer-reviewed publications support that our system is significantly more accurate in monitoring blood loss than alternative approaches.

By making blood loss information more accurate, more timely and more prominent, we can help the care team identify those patients who might need potentially life-saving treatment.

As evidenced by this week’s report from the CDC, the U.S. is facing a maternal health crisis that, until recently, has received little attention. Thankfully, some are starting to take note including Members of Congress who recently created the Black Maternal Health Caucus to aid in developing policies to target preventable pregnancy-related deaths among black women.

More must be done, however. 

Government can take a big first step: by supporting the application of standards and protocols to all patients by hospitals and care providers, lives can be saved. These standards call for accurate quantification of blood loss during labor and delivery and establish clinically-proven objective protocols to respond to hemorrhage. Applying these protocols to every single birth means less guesswork and more certainty in the delivery room and, most importantly, more mothers going home happier and healthier.

The March for Moms on Saturday is a great chance to highlight this and other issues surrounding maternal health that need to be brought to the forefront. We are proud to be a part of this March and will continue to do our part in helping to reduce maternal mortality in the United States.

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