Periodic Reporting for period 1 - SensUS (SensUS: A non-invasive and quantitative ultrasound (QUS) device for an objective monitoring of the childbirth labour process.)

Five million children are born annually in Europe. Of them, 1.5 million of all births occur by C-Sections. Caesarean births cost 1.5 times more than a natural birth and expose the mother and foetus to a mortality risk four times bigger. Current labour monitoring methods depend...