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Prenatal Hope VivO2, a noninvasive fetal oxygen detection device created by Wichita State student Tammy Dorsey, continues to attract significant attention in significant technology places.                                                                                                                                      

VivO2 earned a 2020 Innovation Award at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this month. ClearObject.com named VivO2 one of its top three things to see at the show, a six-day gathering of industry professionals from around the world.

Founder and CEO Tammy Dorsey and co-founder and CTO James Balman are Wichita State Master of Innovation Design students. Both attended CES, which attracted around 170,000 attendees.

鈥淭o see our product up there in the ranks of world-champion technology, it鈥檚 pretty awesome,鈥� Balman said. 鈥淎ny company that is in the tech world is there. We had a tremendous amount of interest from the international market, really validating the product.鈥� 

Dorsey developed VivO2 to provide attending physicians with critical fetus oxygen levels. The device prevents complications at birth due to a lack of oxygen (fetal acidosis), while minimizing unnecessary C-sections.

鈥淭his is a revolutionary device that, in utero, instantly and effectively reads fetus oxygen levels,鈥� wrote Ron Felice of ClearObject. 鈥淭his will significantly reduce the risks associated with oxygen loss during childbirth. Instead of making educated guesses of the distress levels of the fetus distress levels based on contractions and readings from heart rate monitors, live fetal data will allow doctors to make data-driven, informed decisions.鈥�

CES is a place to network with potential investors, government representatives and other sources of information and funding.

鈥淲e have a lot of interest from foundations that are interested,鈥� Balman said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 really more of an international networking event.鈥�

He is excited by the attention Prenatal Hope鈥檚 success brings to Wichita State.

鈥淚t鈥檚 inspiring to a lot of people, especially here in Wichita,鈥� he said. 鈥淟ast year, we went to Amsterdam. We鈥檝e been to Boston, we鈥檝e been to MIT and Harvard. We鈥檝e been all over the country with the development of his product. It鈥檚 putting us on the map at a lot of those events. It really helps to validate whoever wants to come next.鈥�