Validating a New Method to Assess Estimated Blood Loss in the Obstetric Population

"The Triton system (Gauss Surgical, Inc., Palo Alto, CA) is a novel mobile monitoring platform that combines mobile computing with Gauss Feature Extraction Technology (FET) to directly assess Hb mass (mHb) absorbed by surgical sponges from an image. The device is an iPad like imaging device that will assess blood loss via imaging of the surgical sponges used in the surgery.~The device will be used to calculate blood loss on every patient enrolled in the study."