Embrace Infant Warmer

Embrace Warmer
Embrace Warmer How It WorksA steady supply of electricity is lacking in many hospitals in developing countries, adding to problems of limited resources and overcrowding. Premature infants, lacking the ability to maintain their temperature, must be provided warmth for them to survive.

The Embrace Warmer is a low-cost solution that maintains the body temperature of premature and low-birth-weight babies at the desired level even with intermittent access to electricity.

The Embrace Warmer can also be used for transporting hypothermic newborns.

1. Phoenix Medical Systems (P) Ltd, INDIA We Work towards reducing child mortality rates and to improve maternal health Infant Warmer

2. Embrace tied up with Phoenix Medical Systems in 2015 to manufacture and market Embrace Nest globally . Embrace Innovations is a social enterprise aiming to provide a line of innovative, affordable medical devices for emerging markets, starting with an infant warmer

3. Hypothermia is a well-known challenge. Hence, we find provision of warmth included as a critical component of care in standards for equipping facilities of any level providing even basic newborn care. 20,000,000 premature and low birth weight babies born every year 3,000,000 babies die within 1 month of birth every year. 8,000,000 in India Hypothermia is recognized as a significant problem affecting pre-term and low-birth weight babies

4. Traditional solutions are either unsafe and ineffective, or expensive and require a constant supply of electricity and trained healthcare workers Light bulbs Radiant warmers Traditional incubators Current Options

5. This picture shows an NICU in a government hospital in India. None of the radiant warmers were being used at the time of the photograph as there was no power to run these high-wattage machines. One would need significant investment in diesel generators and fuel. Another challenge is chronic shortage of staff trained well enough to use these sophisticated machines.

6. Works without continuous power Easy to use for low-skilled staff Safe – no power near the baby Lower staff burden Better feeding Portable to use anywhere Highly affordable – several babies with one heater Provide warmth anywhere, everywhere

7. Embrace Nest™ has three components

8. 1. Heat WarmPak in AccuTemp heater* 3. Place baby in BabyWrap * 2. Place WarmPak in sanitized BabyWrap * Maintains a temperature of ~37C for 4-6 hours* *Please see product brochure or manual for details on usage and performance How it works

9. Provide warmth anywhere, everywhere A versatile solution with many uses, Embrace Nest helps complete the warm chain that is critical to newborns’ well-being. Doctors have adopted it for many uses in the journey from birth to home whenever they are unable to use traditional equipment and kangaroo mother care.

10. Embrace Nest saved the life of this 850g baby at Government Hospital, Bangalore. S undari’s baby was just 850g when placed in Embrace Nest, the only available option to maintain his temperature. The doctors told us that without Embrace, the baby would have died. Fortunately, the baby survived and was discharged from the hospital a few weeks after this picture was taken.

11. Many radiant warmers in this government hospital were in disrepair. The Embrace Nest is often used as a back-up in NICU when the load exceeds the hospital’s capacity.

12. Maputo Central Hospital , Mozambique faces frequent power-cuts and as a result, the radiant warmers in NICU are unable to provide continuous warmth to babies. The Embrace Nest is used as a back-up to the radiant warmers in NICU during times of power-cuts.

13. At this government hospital in Kerala , India, we saw this grandmother coming from post-natal ward by herself to switch the WarmPak ™ for her grandchild. Embrace Nest’s simplicity allows mothers and families to provide warmth reliably in conjunction with Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) with minimal oversight from an often over-burdened nursing staff.

14. Anita’s 2.35 kg baby born in a government community health centre, Rajasthan , India was significantly hypothermic. But was discharged home safely after a night in Embrace Nest. A 22-year-old mother who had two failed pregnancies, Anita is seen here proudly cradling her healthy baby 10 days later at home.

15. Kirthi had lost her first baby. She gave birth a second baby girl who weighed just 1.6 kilograms. Embrace provided critical warmth for the baby’s survival. Five months later, the child was healthy and had grown significantly.

16. An orphan who has suffered all through her life, Ayato was thankful for being able to take care of her premature baby at a nonprofit hospital in Uganda. Embrace provides the ability to bring high-quality care within reach of the underprivileged.

17. For the first time ever, Embrace Nest was used to provide warmth to triplets, seen here sleeping with their mother in Kabul, Afghanistan.

18. Baby Long weighed less than 1 kilogram when he was rescued by an orphanage in Beijing. The orphanage staff attribute his survival to the warmth provided by a month of care in Embrace. Baby Long, now a toddler, has just been adopted by a family in the US. [email protected]

19. Mexico Guatemala India China Afghanistan Nepal Uganda Zambia Mozambique Somalia Ghana South Sudan Embrace Nest is now in use around the world through partnerships

20. McKinsey Social Innovation Video Award Gold Award for Social Impact Global Awards & Recognition Global awards and recognition

21. CNN interviewer: Have you ever seen this gadget save a baby’s life? Dr. Asha Benakappa :* Yes. *Professor of Pediatrics, Vani Vilas Government Medical College Bangalore “This unit can be used in the growing nursery where there are VLBW [Very Low Birth Weight], ELBW [Extremely Low Birth Weight] babies. Mothers can depend on this when they can relax 2-3 hours instead of KMC [Kangaroo Mother Care]. In the post-natal wards of a tertiary care centre, e.g., SAT Hospital, there are babies who are with their mother till they achieve their BW (birth weight). It will be useful if the paramedical staff / ANMs [Auxiliary Nurse Midwives] can be trained to use this; it will be highly effective to reduce morbidity & mortality. We use it in our NICU also when we find short of radiant warmers, when the bed occupancy increases. It can be recommended for use in paediatric surgery theatre, ECHO, MRI room (if compatible with MRI), and transport to other hospitals.” Feedback from SAT Hospital, Trivandrum Medical College Medical practitioners using our products are our best advocates

22. I'm involved in a nonprofit that does work in Guatemala, Benin, India, and some of the extremely poor indigenous communities we serve could seriously use this. I'd love to obtain a few of these to bring to Guatemala on an upcoming trip this fall. -- XeniJardin , BoingBoing Editor, San Francisco We are a nonprofit program providing health care to fragile infants. We have read about your product, and we want one ! PLEASE! We only have one incubator, and it is almost always broken or not working as we have continual power problems. Help! --Valerie, Morgan Jaybe Infant Care Center, Honduras T he majority of premature babies are never given a chance to make it out of the hospital. Because there are no incubators the babies are left to die. They are put on a table or directly in the trash without the comforting touch of their mothers in those final moments. THIS is why I am interested in Embrace!   -- Crystal , Uganda   We operate an orphanage in Southern Sudan and see premature babies on a regular basis. The warmer that you designed would be a miracle worker for us to have in our clinic. Are these available for purchase yet? If so, we would be VERY interested in having one. - Amy, Sudan Recently, a woman from the community we serve gave birth to a two pound baby girl…we had to spend a large portion of our health project budget to keep the baby on an incubator at the nearest full-service hospital (two hours away). I would be interested in purchasing your Embrace incubators for use in our soon-to-be-established community health center. -- Haley, Dominican Republic Global Need My (adopted ) daughter was thought to be 3 months premature when they found her at the side of the road. They brought her to the orphanage, but no-one thought she would live. It was 97 degrees outside but the little baby was suffering from hypothermia as she was so underweight and could not produce any of her own body heat. By some miracle a mercy mission team from a hospital 8 hours drive away were visiting the orphanage that very day. Thankfully they saved her life . I was wondering if it is possible for us to purchase the warmer now and start getting them into some of the orphanages and care homes?  - Leslie, China

23. Thank you Phoenix drives to work towards a future where every Newborn has access to high - quality Medical care