New Delivery Method Inspired by Cork Screw

An inventor creates a new method inspired by cork screw that can potentially make delivering babies easier and safer, according to the Daily Mail.

Jorge Odon, an Argentinian car mechanic, claims that the Odon Device could help deliver babies more safely especially in cases wherein complications arise during labor. Unlike forceps or a C section, the new device will be much safer and easier to use especially for deliveries that take place in houses or non-hospital setting. As of late, the World Health Organization (WHO) is testing it.

The Odon Device makes use of polyethylene sleeve, fixed around the baby's head that will help pull the child down the birth canal. Mr. Odon says this idea came to him after seeing a YouTube video of a person removing a cork from a wine bottle using a plastic bag. Odon does not have any medical background. He then began to work on the design that is now the subject of a World Health Organization approved study. The Odon Device is being tested in Argentina and rural South Africa to establish whether or not it could act as a safe and dependable birth aid for use by midwives who do not have extensive training in the field.  

If ever the device is approved, it will be the first modernization in operative vaginal delivery since the development of forceps eras ago. The device makes it possible to place a plastic 'bell' on the baby's head before sliding a polyethylene sleeve along the birth canal and around the baby's head. After which, a small amount of air can be pumped into the sleeve to secure it around the head of the baby. The midwife in charge of delivering the baby then removes the plastic inserter to deliver the baby's head. To make the delivery easier, the sleeve is lubricated. Since the device potentially minimizes the baby's head and birth canal, it may also be able to reduce cases of infection during delivery.