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Tooth-Mover
Description:
The Tooth-Mover is not intended to replace braces. It is only intended to give slight adjustments to the visible teeth. It is built into a modified silicone mouth guard. When worn, the user chews on the mouthguard. This motion pivots a pair of steel arcs that move a pushrod to apply gentle pressure on the forward teeth. Over time, this chewing motion should correct slight irregularites in tooth position. The pushrod is secured with a ball joint, so the position of the pushrod would be easily steered by the user's tongue. The pushrod should be made from a ...
Muscle controlled 3D mouse for amputees
Introduction:
There are over 140,000 people living with upper limb loss in the United States today and 1 in 12 new amputations are of the upper limb. In a study examining the employment history of 1630 upper extremity amputees,it was found that the unemployment rate went up from 1% to 19% after amputation. Unemployment only adds to the already existing anxiety and depression introduced due to physical and emotional pain of limb loss.
Motivation:
These days, computers have become ubiquitous and many median salary professions require the ability to easily interact with a computer. Unfortunately, computer interaction typically involves ...
Binary Vaccinations
Infectious agents, like bacteria and viruses, tend to be both really nasty and really inventive. No sooner do we invest millions in research to find successful vaccine, than we learn that the bug we are trying to kill has successfully developed a new defense against our work. Given this never ending war, is there any way to win the war against these agents and end the terrible cost in human life and misery they exact?
Innovation
The ability of infectious agents to use mutation to generate a successful defense has thwarted our attempts to rid the world of them entirely. However, ...
Resonant Microwave Ablation
This design idea proposes looking at cancer tumors as an electrical engineering problem and use simple techniques to detect and treat them using common lab equipment and RF energy (i.e. cell phone signals). Information available estimates more than 180,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer each year, with over 41,000 deaths resulting annually. This rate has risen drastically from just 1 in 20 (in 1960) to 1 in 8 (in 2006). By exploiting currently available technology used in industry, low cost (under $10K) diagnostic and treatment devices can be developed and made available to doctor’s offices and clinics ...
Spine External Fixator
Correction of Pediatric and Adult spine deformity is a difficult problem facing physicians worldwide. Currently devices on the market necessitate large expansile incisions and extensive blood loss, creating a high morbidity rate as well as a significant complication rate. This device allows for gradual correction of the most difficult deformity with minimal incision with no blood loss whatsoever. The patient is free to ambulate and participate in activities of daily living to tolerance while wearing this external spine scaffold ( all with minimal discomfort ).
The device can be used for spine trauma for our deployed soldiers. The device ...
Bimanual Robot for Single Port Laparoscopy
Robotic surgery is showing many disruptive advantages for several surgical procedures and is marking the steps for the future of minimally invasive surgery, especially in laparoscopy (e.g. the daVinci system from Intuitive Surgical).
These robots use cable-driven mechanism to actuate long straight tools having a wrist with 3 degrees of freedom (DOFs,) while the other DOFs needed for performing surgical operations are provided by the external robotic arms. Each tool is inserted at a convenient location. However, the trend in surgical robotics is to reduce the trauma produced by introducing instruments inside the abdominal cavity, using a single port ...
High Torque Secure Surgical Fastener – Driver System
High Plains Technology Group was formed to develop new equipment for orthopedic medicine. We polled a number of orthopedic surgeons and asked them to pose their most difficult problem. The vast majority described problems with surgical fasteners. The difficulty of either inserting or removing fasteners easily led to additional procedure time, increased risk of contamination and infection, and the potential for additional patient trauma.
We analyzed the design of existing driver – fastener systems and realized that virtually all of them share the same inherent flaw. As the user attempts to apply additional torque, the contact area between the ...
Air Splint Pump
Air Splint with integral inflation pump
Problem: Current emergency medical air splints employ two methods for inflation. These are inflation by blowing through a straw or using an external pump. Both have drawbacks when trying to administer during an emergency situation. Both hands are required to inflate the splint, this process happens in the dark in many cases.
Solution: By making the pump an integral part of the splint. A flat tab that is a “bulb” pump is part of the splint. This pump is similar to those found in athletic shoes that enable the user to inflate the ...
Detection of Coronary Artery Disease
Coronary artery disease is the leading cause of death in Europe, Baltic states, Russia, North and South America , Australia and New Zealand. Over 4,59,000 Americans die of coronary artery disease every year making it the number 1 cause of death in US .In the UK 1,01,000 deaths annually are due to coronary artery disease. So its important to detect the coronary artery disease at the right time.
COMPONENTS REQUIRED:
1.Electrodes
2.microcontroller
3.RFID tag
4.RFID reader.
DESCRIPTION:
Coronary arteries should be be monitored continuously
in our day to day life.Today no such device(setup) exists in the market.I ...
Patients and caregivers online service
Health care is a basic human need and shared social responsibility.
Our primary inspiration is distributing of knowledge to improve the lives of patients and caregivers and to allow healthy persons to avoid unnecessary health risks.
We believe that to make a difference and help patients live healthier lives, we need to form connections with those who are working to address healthcare needs in the community and improve quality of life for patients and caregivers.
A web-site that seeks to safeguard patients through effective mediation assuring access to care, preservation of their financial stability and maintenance of employment relative ...
Inflatable Clean Room
The inflatable clean room is meant to be a simply and rapidly deployed structure that provides maximum isolation/containment or isolation/protection from viral, bacterial, or chemical agents that could be encountered in areas where protection measures cannot be provided by conventional institutional facilities. This includes remote medical or safety environments such as battlefields and third world locations, as well as, emergency environmental settings and situations. Therefore the potential markets for the inflatable clean rooms could be military, humanitarian, and emergencies medical organizations. The structure is meant to be erected in a rapid and simple fashion using a minimal amount of ...
Comprehensive Blood Glucose Controlling System
For diabetics, an under-dosing insulin injection before eating is hazardous. The resulting hyperglycemia (high levels of sugar in the blood), if persistent, can result in damage to nerves, blood vessels and organs which can lead to more serious complications such as higher susceptibility to infections, inability to heal, kidney damage or loss, heart damage, partial or complete vision loss, amputation, etc. However, overdosing insulin injections can result in hypoglycemia (low levels of sugar in the blood), which causes patients to consume unnecessary sugar-rich food in order to prevent falling into a life-threatening, brain damaging coma. Therefore, finding the perfect ...
Tape Type Band Aid
Adhesive bandages are available in standard sizes only and therefore may not be suited for different wound sizes. In Tape type Band Aid we can cut the Band Aid to required length. The adhesive is along either side of the tape and the center portion consists of the chemical solutions. It is similar to normal adhesive tape with center portion conssting of chemical solutions.
Major drawback is that it is not waterproof since ends are open. It advantages include:
1. Required size can be obtained therefore useful for different wound size.
2. It can be rolled around fingers for finger ...
Improving the Overall Effectiveness of Transdermal Drug Delivery
A number of technologies are available that allow hydrophilic drugs to be absorbed through the skin rather than the GI tract. Transdermal delivery through the skin has a number of advantages over oral delivery, including better absorption, greater flexibility in how the drugs are administered and more choices for patients in how they receive their medication.
Delivery of hydrophilic drugs through a transdermal patch presents a solution to many of the problems currently associated with other delivery methods for hydrophilic drugs, most notably, by avoiding all GI tract issues and by improving patient compliance compared with oral delivery. This ...
Medipacs Mini Infuser
The Mini Infuser™ is a miniature, disposable, programmable drug delivery device designed to significantly lower the cost of patient care while improving a patients lifestyle with increased pharmacological safety, patient mobility and fewer needle sticks. Medipacs is currently developing the second generation ready for commercialization prototype shown in the images and will submit it to the FDA for approval once testing is completed.
Broad application of this technology will impact and lower the cost of healthcare not only for millions of infusion patients but also the industry providers. The projected market in the United States alone is greater than ...
Quantitative Measuring Dispenser
The Quantitative Measuring Dispenser provides an easy way for dispensing medicaments and other materials directly from the original container. The device meters the dose exactly with minimal tolerances and with no chance for a partial dose or dose larger than required. The device is easy to affix to the container and easy to use, especially if integrated as part of a initial packaging. When not needed the container is sealed from the atmosphere, from both air and moisture. It provides a design that works well for solids -powder and liquids in small and larger quantities with the same precision. ...
Tissue Electrical /Thermal Characteristic Modeling
Electrical and Thermal Characteristic of Biological Tissue Modeling (ETCBM™)
Abstract:
Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is a nonsurgical medical procedure used for treatment of cardiac disorders such as arrhythmia or destruction of cancerous tumors in lung, kidney, breast, liver or any other dysfunctional tissue diseases. RFA is also used for treatment of varicose veins, severe chronic pain (such as lower back) as well as many others medical uses. Theoretical modeling of biological tissue using computer simulation tools can be very helpful in providing vital information on the electrical and thermal characteristics of the tissue in order to determine a proper treatment for individual ...
Consumer Wrinkle and Acne Reduction Laser
SemiNex Corporation developed a low cost, hand-held laser system for treating facial skin wrinkles and acne. The device is available in lower powers for the home consumer market and high powers for general practitioner use. The wireless laser device is the size of an electric razor and contains a programmable controller, rechargeable battery, laser engine, and safety interlocks all integrated into the hand-piece. Prototypes are available now and formal clinical testing in the USA will be completed this Fall.
The SemiNex hand-held laser is based on the professional laser devices used by cosmetic surgeons for the past 10 years. ...
EMMA Elder Mobile Monitor Assistant
Robomotic is developing a product called EMMA (Elder Mobile Monitoring Assistant), a health care platform designed for autonomous monitoring of the elders.
Across the developed world, the demographic profile is changing: the proportion of the global population over 65 years old will triple between now and 2100, from 7 percent to 21 percent. For instance, in the UK, the elder population is over 4 million and over 80% of them are single and living an independent life style.
Falls accounts for 10% acute hospital admissions, with the total cost of NHS amounting to £1.7bn, with EMMA the NHS can cut their ...
Disposable Injecting System with Medicaments
An injection with pre loaded medicaments . Doctors can just use this directly by just opening the cap, injecting, and then discarding to the dust bin. In drawing medicines from glass vials, the doctor has to break the glass, which in turn results in microscopic glass powder getting mixed up with the medicaments in the vial, which in turn enters the blood if injected.
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