Direct delivery by resonance

2010/12/14 Galarraga Aiestaran, Ana - Elhuyar Zientzia

• Irudiak/Soinuak
• Medikuntza

Researchers from the Charité Hospital in Berlin and the Faculty of Medicine have followed up a childbirth through magnetic resonance imaging. It's the first time you get something like this, and for that you have had to use a special Philips scanner to ensure that your mother had enough space and was comfortable. The team has taken two years to develop this scanner.

Thus, throughout the whole process and in every detail, we have been able to observe the movements performed by the child through the birth canal, his heart beats and his mother's pelvis. The main objective is to know well the process to know why you have to do so many caesarean sections. In fact, although the WHO estimates that the cesarean rate should be less than 15%, in many places this rate is exceeded. For example, in public hospitals in the ACBC, 13.23% compared to 29.6% in private hospitals.

Image: Image: Hospital Charité.