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A mini-"checklist" to help save mothers' lives: Active Management of the Third Stage of Labor

The clinical steps around saving mothers' lives are a matter of swift-decision making and skill.  A lot of attention is being given to a simple process called the 'Active Management of the Third Stage of Labor' as a way to prevent postpartum hemorrhage. While clinicians who have been trained and who do hundreds of deliveries a month will remember the steps in AMTSL, newer clinicians will need reminders.  We saw an interesting rubber stamp that was created for a USAID project. It covered the steps of AMSTL and could be stamped directly into a paper medical record.

Visualizing inputs to innovation for maternal/newborn health- by cause of death

Our passion is in information design... that saves lives. This graphic depicts our vision for how Maternova will help or organize the field of innovation for maternal/newborn health