Dear Anna,
Thank you for your post on the non-pneumatic anti-shock garment (NASG) being used by Pathfinder International to reverse shock and address PPH in Nigeria and India. It is nice to see more and more people becoming aware of the NASG. The garment holds much promise to one day be part of the standard of care in order to prevent women from needlessly dying in childbirth. I would like to point out that the garment was not invented by Pathfinder. The NASG has an interesting history/evolution including being used to treat battlefield wounds in the Vietnam War to NASA incorporating it in astronaut training. It is also used by paramedics and EMTs in the US. The Women’s enews article you refer to has now been corrected, as it originally mis-stated the NASG as “the Pathfinder garment”. I would appreciate it if you could update your post so it doesn’t give one the impression that Pathfinder is the inventor of this device. If you would like more information on what is being done with the NASG to save mothers’ lives in low resource settings, please visit www.lifewrap.org.
Respectfully,
Jennifer Clark
Safe Motherhood Programs
UCSF
San Francisco
Comment Reply
Dear Anna,
Thank you for your post on the non-pneumatic anti-shock garment (NASG) being used by Pathfinder International to reverse shock and address PPH in Nigeria and India. It is nice to see more and more people becoming aware of the NASG. The garment holds much promise to one day be part of the standard of care in order to prevent women from needlessly dying in childbirth. I would like to point out that the garment was not invented by Pathfinder. The NASG has an interesting history/evolution including being used to treat battlefield wounds in the Vietnam War to NASA incorporating it in astronaut training. It is also used by paramedics and EMTs in the US. The Women’s enews article you refer to has now been corrected, as it originally mis-stated the NASG as “the Pathfinder garment”. I would appreciate it if you could update your post so it doesn’t give one the impression that Pathfinder is the inventor of this device. If you would like more information on what is being done with the NASG to save mothers’ lives in low resource settings, please visit www.lifewrap.org.
Respectfully,
July 13, 2009 - 11:33amJennifer Clark
Safe Motherhood Programs
UCSF
San Francisco
This Comment
Reply