Course Name: BME Design Team
NeoSED: Early Detection of Neonatal Sepsis
Every year, there are 4 million neonatal deaths around the world, predominantly in low and middle income countries. One of...
Kubanda: Breast Cancer Treatment in Rural Clinics in South Africa
Breast cancer is a growing problem throughout the world. However, in recent years, as more developing countries begin to adopt...
GaitAssist: A Novel Technology to Mitigate Scissor Gait in Patients with Cerebral Palsy
Scissor gait is one of the major challenges affecting mobility in individuals with cerebral palsy (CP), which is a neurological...
Flapp: A Platform for 3D Local Soft-tissue Flap Design for Facial Reconstructive Surgery
Flapp is a mobile computer-assisted surgery application that will help surgeons create and plan local tissue flaps in facial reconstructive...
exoRise: Revision Patient Transfer
Healthcare workers, particularly nurses and nursing assistants, endure some of the highest rates of occupational musculoskeletal injury and the most...
eXoid: Decreasing New Initiates to Prescription Opioid Abuse
There are over 16,000 deaths annually from prescription drug overdose, resulting in over $72 billion in costs for medical providers,...
EchoSpine: Guiding Physicians through Imaging
To help physicians access structures and spaces deep in the body, we present EchoSpine, an ultrasound imaging device that delivers...
CricSpike Emergency Cricothyrotomy Assist Device for Tactical Field Care
According to data from Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), two of the most recent American military...
CompliaStent: Improving Aortic Compliance in Heart Failure Patients
One of the aorta’s main jobs is to smooth out the pulsatile blood flow leaving the heart, a task made...
CardiAcc: Noninvasive Cardiac Output Monitoring
In the US alone, heart failure affects the lives of 5.1 million people and costs the healthcare system $32 billion...
Towards a Safe and Simple Method for Artificial Lens Fixation
Every year, 20,000 patients with damaged capsular support undergo a procedure known as artificial lens fixation. However, historical and current...
Automated Tourniquet to Control Battlefield Hemorrhage
Currently, over 60% of preventable battlefield deaths are due to uncontrolled extremity hemorrhage, which translates to about 165 deaths per...
Axillary Lymph Node Localization
In the US, breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality among women. Our team is working to improve...
Postpartum Hemorrhage Management in the United States
Every 10 minutes, a woman in the United States will face a pregnancy-related complication and a majority of these complications...
TacPac
TacPac aims to provide at-home therapeutic drug monitoring of immunosuppressive drug tacrolimus. Given to 90% of the 300,000 transplant-patients in...
Verifying CAD Patient Medication Adherence
Coronary artery disease, which affects 16.8 million people in the US, is effectively managed by the long-term use of prescription...
Establishing a Quantitative Endpoint for Transarterial Embolization Utilizing Real-time Pressure Measurements
For 85% of liver cancer patients with unresectable tumors, the standard of care is transarterial embolization therapy, a procedure in...
Telemedicine Solution for Screening for Retinopathy of Prematurity
Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a vision-impairing retinal disease that occurs in preterm infants and can account for up to...
Facilitating Descemet’s Membrane Endothelial Keratoplasty
Every year, over 75,000 corneal transplants, or keratoplasties, are performed. Of all keratoplasties, a large proportion are partial keratoplasties, which...
Non-Surgical Management of Nasal Obstruction
Restricted nasal breathing is one of the most common complaints heard by otolaryngologists (ENTs) every day. This symptom is indicative...
Kubanda Cryotherapy for Breast Cancer in Low Resource Settings
Breast Cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among women worldwide, and while 5- year survival rates are nearing 90%...
Breast Cancer Diagnosis in Low Resource Settings
Breast cancer leads to half a million deaths annually and disproportionately affects developing countries due to an uneven distribution of...
Increasing Intraocular Pressure in the Setting of Chronic Hypotony
Chronic hypotony is a condition characterized by extended periods of low intraocular pressure. It is estimated that chronic hypotony affects...
CytoBloom Biopsy
The cholangiocarcinoma patient population represents 4.6% of cancer deaths in the United States annually with a 17.5% post-diagnostic 5-year survival...
Novel convection-enhanced delivery of neuro-oncology medications via a customized clear cranial implant
Convection-enhanced delivery (CED) is a promising technique that generates a pressure gradient at the tip of an infusion catheter to...
MODS Classifier
More than a quarter of children admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit have or go on to develop pediatric...
Cast Loosening in Fracture Management
Need Statement: There is a need for a method to reduce the loosening of casts that occurs due to shrinkage...
Touch Contamination
In the US, hemodialysis is the standard of care for adults with end-stage kidney disease, but most children receive at-home...
Suturectomy
In normal infants, the major pieces of the cranial bones are not fused together in order to allow the brain...
Brain Retraction
Surgical resection of deep brain lesions requires careful planning and execution to avoid iatrogenic neurological injury. Brain retractor systems have...