This low-tech birthing simulator helps teach midwives how to handle postpartum hemmorhage. The $100 'frontpack' device was developed by the company Laerdal with input from a Guatemalan industrial designer, .Paula Quinona Gonzales-- as reported in the Washington Post. The device is strapped to an instructor who can control the amount of blood being released by a pouch inside the device. The Laerdal website shows the device being used for the following techniques: breech & vacuum delivery, incomplete placenta delivery, oxytocin injection and controlled cord traction.





