The clever bootee looks after babies

It's a small white bootee which looks like an ordinary socks for babies. In fact, it is a high technology modulus tested since February by 15 french hospitals. It weighs 45 grams, is filled with captors permanently verifying the cardiac activity of the baby, its moves, its temperature and the percentage or oxygen in its blood, it also transfers these informations to the medical staff through a biper.

Set by Tam Telesante with the help of Anaïs Dumanois foundation these bootees could entirely change the survey of babies. " For the prematures who are frail but in good health, they could avoid complex settings with wires et de cables explains Physician engineer Jean Luc Weber.

Useful for the first hours of a baby's lif, these bootees could allow him to get back home sooner, instead of being kept at the maternity. Bootees which could be used as soon as 2008, in hospitals and maternities if the test results, which will be presented in October at Marseille are positively judged.

Julie Robelet, le Monde 2007.08.16.