Course Name: BME Design Team
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...
Hearing loss screener
Hearing loss is prevalent in the United States, with around 1 in 5 Americans over the age of 12 having...
Transforming Mobility in the Pediatric ICU
Traditionally, clinicians keep children in critical condition in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) constrained to their beds. However, extended...
Malfunction detection in ventriculoperitoneal shunts
Hydrocephalus is the buildup of cerebrospinal fluid in the ventricular system that must be flushed out, or it will cause...
VR Training
Fellows and medical students need a risk-free way to practice high-stake surgical procedures in order to boost trainee confidence and...
Biosealant Delivery
A fistula is defined as an abnormal connection between two organs. Some examples of common fistulas include ones formed in...
Stoma Shmoma!
Current feeding tube attachments are designed to sit between the inside of the stomach wall and the surface of the...
Spinal Cord Injury
Acute spinal cord injury (SCI) is presented in two phases – primary phase of mechanical trauma and secondary phase, chronic,...
Sapana Health
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), the intermittent cessation of breathing during sleep, affects roughly 22 million Americans. Untreated OSA is associated...
CottInSight
Neurosurgical operations are intensive medical procedures that often last several hours, during which the surgeon must be intensely focused to...
EchO2
Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a condition which results in reduced blood perfusion (blood flow) to the legs. 600,000 PAD...
Breast Cancer Biopsy in Low-Resource Settings
The incidence of breast cancer in South Africa is approximately 35 per 100,000 people, with a five-year survival rate of...
Endosight
Colonoscopies are routine, low-risk procedures that are used to screen patients for diseases like colorectal cancer. However, in low cost...
PediaCORE
For the 400,000 children in the United States suffering from cerebral palsy (CP), everyday activities requiring physical mobility can be...