Course Name: BME Design Team

Of the 15.2% of Americans with chronic kidney disease (CKD), over 700,000 have kidneys that have deteriorated to the point...

Over two million women in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia suffer from the debilitating effects of an obstetric fistula. This abnormal...

The standard length of epidural needles, three-and-a-half inches, is suitable for patients with a normal body mass index (BMI). However,...

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease affecting 25 million Americans, including seven million children. Current treatments include anti-inflammatory drugs delivered...

Hydrocephalus, a neurological condition that affects approximately 700,000 Americans over the age of 60, results from cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) build-up...

Rhinoplasties are procedures in which plastic surgeons augment or reduce structures of the nose to resolve functional and aesthetic issues....

During an operation, the surgical team must keep track of the number of items used during the procedure to ensure...

Over 300,000 total hip replacements, also called total hip arthroplasties (THAs), are performed annually; this number is expected to rise...

Free flap breast reconstruction is a procedure in which a plastic surgeon reconstructs the breast by completely removing tissue from...

Endoscopic endonasal skull base surgery (EESBS) is a minimally-invasive surgical procedure used to treat pathologies of the skull base, the...

Every year in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) between 95,000 to 116,000 patients in the United States will experience...

Worldwide, over 4M patients above the age of 25 are affected by liver-based monogenic hereditary disorders. Hemophilia A, affecting roughly...

Within the last decade, the world’s leading dementia investigators have uncovered a decisive relationship between age-related hearing loss and dementia,...

Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is the formation of a blood clot in a major vein (usually in the lower limbs)....

Of the 250,000 women diagnosed with breast cancer annually in the US, 60% are treated with breast conserving surgery (BCS):...

Pulsatile tinnitus (PT) is a condition which affects over five million people in the US; these patients hear a constant,...

Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CA-UTI) is the most common hospital-acquired infection in the world, affecting over 500,000 individuals each year....

At any given time, nearly 1.4 million American children require feeding assistance. Of these children, around 117,000 are neonates and...

Mohs micrographic surgery (MMS) is the gold standard treatment for nonmelanoma skin cancer, one of the most common types of...

In rural clinics, on the field during sports games, and in the military field after an IED blast, underdiagnosis of...

A percutaneous core needle lung biopsy is a minimally invasive procedure by which a sample of abnormal lung tissue is...

Over 4,000 pediatric patients with cerebral palsy or a traumatic brain injury struggle to control one of their arms and...

Endotracheal intubation is used in the NICU to provide assisted ventilation for neonates suffering from respiratory disorders. In very premature...

Urinary diversion via a percutaneous nephrostomy tube (PCN tube) is a surgical procedure that temporarily redirects the natural flow of...

Approximately 5 million adults in the US are currently living with a hernia. A large subset of these patients have...

The mitral valve sits within the heart and consists of two leaflets that open and close during the cardiac cycle....

Interest in saliva as a painless, biofluid collection modality has risen because of the COVID-19 epidemic. However, saliva typically has...

85-90% of anesthesia providers have committed at least one drug error or near miss in their careers. These errors are...

Approximately 8 million patients across the United States and Europe suffer from moderate-to-severe tricuspid regurgitation (TR), a chronic and progressive...

ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) is a form of cardiopulmonary bypass that oxygenates a patient’s blood and ensures adequate blood flow...