Medical 2011
Stair Climbing Wheelchair
One of the dreams of handicapped people is to regain their mobility. It is sad that for many of them this is an elusive dream.
For many years wheelchairs have helped disabled people to some extent. According to the Wheelchair Foundation, “It is estimated that at least 100 million children, teens and adults worldwide need a wheelchair.” Reports say that 1% of the population of North America is in need of wheelchairs. In several developing countries like Afghanistan this percentage rises to 10% of only the male population.
Unfortunately one of the problems with regular wheelchairs is that they ...
αScreen Fast and Cheap Bacteria Detection
Every year food-borne bacteria cause thousands infections in humans and animals. Outbreaks of E.Coli and Salmonella commonly occur in meat, vegetables and processed food products. The most recent and the deadliest recorded E.Coli outbreak caused 39 deaths and over 3500 reported cases of poisoning in May and June 2011 in Germany. An effective method for disease detection and prevention is still missing, mostly due to long incubation times and a high operation cost associated with conventional methods. The most widely used method for bacteria detection, the standard plate count, takes from 24 to 48 hours, due to the time ...
Mass Fatality Disaster Relief
Our Sterilization Roundhouse is a unique, first of its kind, design that would efficiently and inexpensively process decedents in a disaster situation, stalling further decomposition, thereby preserving tattoos, fingerprints, and identifying characteristics of each person.
Irradiation Sterilization safely, efficiently and cost effectively adds weeks to the time available to identify remains before they are too deteriorated. Thus, the Sterilization Roundhouse grants disaster workers additional time to find, research, and identify the dead.
Lastly, this preservation helps families achieve closure with a funeral.
Our design concept would also safely sterilize medical supplies and equipment using safe, affordable irradiation.
Disaster Problems ...
Speech and Touch Based Smart Home Infrastructure
Project description:
This project is a creative work focused on designing an intelligent living space for the physically challenged with advanced control over various entities around. In this project we present an integrated system that uses both Voice and Touch as a natural input to provide user-friendly access to information and entertainment devices, other electrical appliances installed in a real home environment.
The crux of the system is based on the localization technique implementation through ARM processor and voice recognizing IC-ISD5108/ISD2560/75/90/120 or we can use HM2007 with the help of which the system understands its local position and acts ...
Cool Grounding Pad
Cool Grounding Pad Eliminates Patient Skin Burns During Electrosurgical and RF Ablation Procedures.
Abstract:
The high power electrosurgical and radio frequency ablation devices that apply high level of RF current to the patient for extended period of time can increase the risk of patient skin burns at the grounding pad’s attachment site. A grounding pad must not heat the patient’s skin in excess of 6 degree centigrade during the tissue ablation or electrosurgical procedure according to AAMI HF-18 standard. The RF current return is usually concentrated around the edges of grounding pad (edge effect) causing excessive heating at the highest current ...
Standing Support System for Surgeons
Standing Support System: In the practice of surgery, dentistry and other clinical procedures which require long periods of standing while intently focused on the critical task at hand there is a well understood need to provide a means of reducing the strain associated with leaning, bending, holding one’s arms extended and even standing unsupported in one place for several hours at a time without periods of rest or the opportunity to change positions without impairment of access, reach or vantage.
The invention integrates dynamic arm rest supports with additional supports for various portions of the body. There are no ...
EnableRx
EnableRx – Enabling technologies for next generation medical diagnostics
Our Mission: EnableRx is an organization dedicated to creating innovative, low-cost, modular, scalable and interoperable telemedicine solutions that can be implemented across the planet and in space applications. Our goal is to provide medical diagnostic and device solutions that take advantage of the internet, cloud computing and current and next generation blue-tooth technologies.
Strategic Summary: EnableRx will build and scale the applications appropriate to the market. In developing nations, our primary target includes pregnant women living in impoverished conditions and their caregivers including physicians, nurses and midwives. The most important markers ...
Vitamin D While You Shower!
Studies show that Vitamin D inadequacy has been reported in approximately 57% of general medicine inpatients and is at epidemic levels in worldwide populations. When converted to its biologically active form, Vitamin D serves multiple functions: activating immune defenses, regulating calcium and potassium, and promoting healthy bone growth to name a few. Vitamin D deficiency (Hypovitaminosis D) is the condition of having too little vitamin D in the body. It causes rickets, osteomalacia, exacerbates osteoporosis, and prevents children from developing peak bone mass.
Hypovitaminosis D results mainly from a lack of dietary Vitamin D sources and an insufficient exposure ...
Multifunctional Dental Apparatus
A mobile multifunctional dental apparatus comprising: a generally rectangular shaped outer casing having a front wall, a rear wall, sidewalls, a floor. An interior compartment. A hinged lid, a plurality of wheels and an electrical coupling device, the front wall including a plurality of switches and a lighted screen, a plurality of hoses each having a first end positioned through the outer casing and a second end including a handle control, each handle control including a device to permit activation and deactivation thereof; in the interior compartment being divided into a plurality of levels by at least one divide ...
Remedy Lift
Remedy Lift is a lift designed to lift patients from wheelchair to bed and vice versa. This lift differs from existing products because it is completely remote controlled, allowing the patient the option to operate it without the assistance of a nurse,etc. This particular lift uses hydraulics to lift the patient up to 90 inches, extend 10 inches, and rotate 110 ...
XVIVO Organ Perfusion System
In the United States, only 15% of available donor lungs are transplanted into critical recipients due to the associated damage to the organs from the traumatic death event.
The XVIVO Perfusion System (XPS) is a mobile intensive care unit that can repair damaged organs ex vivo (out of the donor's body) for successful transplantation into a waiting recipient. The XPS includes a centrifugal cardiac bypass pump, fluid heater/cooler unit, in-line fiber optic gas analyzer (to determine continuous pH, pCO2 and pO2) and an ICU ventilator. It safely perfuses a blood substitute throughout the entire organ in a carefully controlled ...
Ischiban- Stroke Detection Headband
Stroke kills someone every three minutes and is the leading cause of adult disability in the United States, with over $65.5 billion spent on treatment annually. Clot-busting drugs known as tPA, when administered within the “golden hour,” have shown tremendous promise at improving survival and recovery rates for patients who have suffered ischemic strokes, but are lethal to patients suffering from hemorrhagic strokes. Unfortunately, more than 70 percent cannot be diagnosed until after the “golden hour”.For every minute stroke goes untreated, nearly two million additional nerve cells die.
Currently the only method to differentiate ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes is ...
Implantable, Artificial Kidney System
ABSTRACT
We present a conceptual design, associated components, and method of assembling a paradigm shifting implantable artificial kidney system. This relatively simple device allows continuous, silent, and autonomous separation and removal of selected contaminants in a patient’s blood without using traditional filters and without application of external hydrostatic pressures. It has no moving mechanical parts, requires little power, and may be readily miniaturized and implanted in patients suffering from kidney failure for optimum, continuous, blood purification. This filtration/purification device relies on the patient’s own blood pressure. After passing through this device, cleansed blood is returned to the patient’s own ...
Assessing Neurodegenerative Changes in MS
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is recognized as one of the most challenging and debilitating diseases affecting children and is the most common neurological disorder seen in young adults. Although the mechanisms by which MS progressively results in neurodegenerative changes are evident these are not well understood. The latest medical break-throughs in understanding, treatment, and knowledge leading to a cure give suggestive evidence that neurodegeneration occurs early in the course of MS. Further, that a unique cell ('soldier cell') is involved and is thought to be responsible for prolonged periods of debilitation, sustained degenerative neurological disorders and accumulation of disability.
A ...
World's First Functional Artificial Finger
I am proud to have designed the first functional artificial finger for amputees; called X-Fingers. These simple yet effective tools enable finger amputees to control the movement of each replaced phalange. The devices move as quickly as real fingers restoring considerable strength and dexterity. The devices are body-powered and no batteries or motors are needed; allowing for uninterrupted use. The devices replace 1-10 missing fingers lost at any length. Furthermore, no surgeries are needed and the devices are as easy to apply and remove as a glove. Once applied, a supple cosmetic cover fits over the assembly for added ...
Buzzy for Pain Relief
Shots are the most feared part of medical care. Immunizations may only hurt for a second, but can result in a lifetime of needle phobia for 22% of adults. The costs of 1/5 of the population avoiding medical treatment, refusing blood donation, and neglecting flu shots due to needle pain fear is uncalculated. There are currently no over-the-counter aids for sharp pain, placing patients at the mercy of healthcare providers. Current prescription methods of reducing needle pain cost up to per site and require up to 1 hour to be effective. An inexpensive, fast-acting over the counter product that ...
Magnetic Micro-Bubbles Combat Cancer
Cancer is a group of diseases characterized by uncontrolled growth and spread of abnormal cells. If the spread is not controlled, it can result in death. Worldwide, one out of eight deaths is due to cancer; cancer causes more deaths than AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined. When countries are grouped according to economic development, cancer is the leading cause of death in developed countries and the second leading cause of death in developing countries. By 2030, the global burden is expected to grow to 21.4 million new cancer cases and 13.2 million cancer deaths simply due to the growth ...
InflataCorset
Sensory Processing Disorder [SPD] is a neurological condition wherein people have difficulties with taking in, processing, and responding to sensory information about the environment and from within the own bodies. This type of neurological misalignment is known to affect a large range of people from attention deficit disorder, learning disabilities, hypersensitivity, to those with hypo-sensitivities such as autism. SPD is a growing issue: Twenty-five years ago it was estimated that 5-10% of children were affected. Currently 12-30% children are diagnosed with SPD.
This project was an investigation into wearable technologies that might be used in therapeutic regimes for people ...
Disposable Gynecological Dilator
Any intervention on the uterus, whether for the purpose of taking a tissue sample for analysis or in the case of a voluntary or medically indicated induced abortion, requires dilatation of the cervix of the uterus, the diameter of which is around 4 mm, and which is a natural and a quite firm opening. Two methods are in use today for such dilatation: a mechanical method using Heger’s dilators (the most frequently used method to date) and a chemical method using various hygroscopic dilators ((Laminaria, Lamicel,Dilateria) or Dilapan.
Dilatation by chemical methods requires 4 to 24 hours, and cannot ...
Automated Wheelchair
In the present world the cost of production of powered wheelchairs is so high that people never afford to buy those wheelchairs especially in the under developed countries. So, we have come up with this economical powered multipurpose wheel chair named as Automated Wheelchair. The basic idea of this automated wheelchair is to serve people with multiple disabilities i.e. the people who are both visually challenged and also physically challenged. They can use this wheelchair to navigate from one place to other automatically without any difficulty. The navigation of the wheelchair is taken care off by the automation program ...
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