2016
Medical

According to the American Diabetes Association,

* Prevalence: In 2012, 29.1 million Americans, or 9.3% of the population, had diabetes. Approximately 1.25 million American children and adults have type 1 diabetes.

* Undiagnosed: Of the 29.1 million, 21.0 million were diagnosed, and 8.1 million were undiagnosed.

* Prevalence in Seniors: The percentage of Americans age 65 and older remains high, at 25.9%,

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There are over 220,000 US stroke patients each year who lack the ability to volitionally reopen their affected hand post-stroke. The HOAD Research Group at the Johns Hopkins University was charted in August 2006 as an engineering teaching and mentoring enterprise to design a hand-opening assistive device (HOAD), to provide a simple, convenient,

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Heart Rate and Auscultation Device-

The product is a chest strapped medical device with dual ability of being a highly sensitive heart rate monitor while the strap is embedded with multiple audio sensors to detect heart problems through auscultation.

Cardiac arrhythmia, also known as cardiac dysrhythmia or irregular heartbeat, is a group of conditions in which the heartbeat is irregular,

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The working, full size prototype boat can be used to provide humanitarian relief in shallow waters and can be easily beached and left aground (sits level) as a generating station. The boat can be an operating room, clinic, blood transfusion lab, med school annex or placed on a trailer for over road transport.

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Dehydration is easily missed in hospitals and is often the underlining factor of a lot of issues in patient care.

This project explores the hydration market and the current issues surrounding hydration in hospitals. Resulting in a product that responds to my research, user testing and insight.

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For the huge number of people worldwide who suffer from joint problems and survive with chronic pains and movement limitations, what if we tried to provide them with an easy noninvasive solution which has no side effects that can improve their lives and make their movement easier and not painful?

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I believe it is time to keep all medical information for every citizen in a personal database. Especially for new population it is ideal to have a database with all medical information. It is also important for this base to be common worldwide.

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The Apnosystems Infant Care System (ICS) device is a life saving medical intervention that can cause a sleeping infant that has ceased breathing to stir, and resume breathing. This wearable will change the way we care babies, both as in-hospital and at home babies.

Premature, low birthweight babies,

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Ophthalmic ultrasound training is often done on healthy volunteers, limiting the scope of training on patients with a variety of conditions.The purpose of this project was to engineer an ophthalmic ultrasound training platform that simulated the human eye to enable clinically-relevant learning and practice of ocular ultrasound techniques. The most important requirement was the accuracy of the model’

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The KLVR and KLVR+ Dialysis Devices for Liver Dialysis in Pediatrics and Adult Patients and MODS Support

Currently Liver Dialysis is no-existent and standard kidney dialysis is highly inefficient. Thrice weekly 4 hours hemodialysis sessions only introduces 7% of marginal uremic toxins clearance. The standard dialysis eliminates mostly water-soluble substances of low or intermediate molecular weight toxins,

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