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The Maxima Medical Center in Veldhoven is the first hospital in the world to start a trial with a wireless belt that monitors premature babies’ heart rates and breathing. The Bambi Belt eliminates the need to tape electrodes on the babies’ sensitive skin. It can also be less stressful for parents not to see their baby covered in wires, NOS reports.
In 2008, pediatrician and neonatologist, Sidarto Bambang Oetomo, came up with an idea for a skin-friendly monitoring belt. Today, he runs the Bambi Belt enterprise in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, with his son, Fabio.