Course Name: BME Design Team
Pediatric IV Infiltration
Every year in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) between 95,000 to 116,000 patients in the United States will experience...
HydroGene
Worldwide, over 4M patients above the age of 25 are affected by liver-based monogenic hereditary disorders. Hemophilia A, affecting roughly...
Auditus
Within the last decade, the world’s leading dementia investigators have uncovered a decisive relationship between age-related hearing loss and dementia,...
Thrombotect
Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is the formation of a blood clot in a major vein (usually in the lower limbs)....
EdgeSense
Of the 250,000 women diagnosed with breast cancer annually in the US, 60% are treated with breast conserving surgery (BCS):...
Design Team 10
Pulsatile tinnitus (PT) is a condition which affects over five million people in the US; these patients hear a constant,...
Urinefo
Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CA-UTI) is the most common hospital-acquired infection in the world, affecting over 500,000 individuals each year....
Design Team 8
At any given time, nearly 1.4 million American children require feeding assistance. Of these children, around 117,000 are neonates and...
MUSE for Mohs
Mohs micrographic surgery (MMS) is the gold standard treatment for nonmelanoma skin cancer, one of the most common types of...
VestiTech
In rural clinics, on the field during sports games, and in the military field after an IED blast, underdiagnosis of...
PneuTech
A percutaneous core needle lung biopsy is a minimally invasive procedure by which a sample of abnormal lung tissue is...
UniStand
Over 4,000 pediatric patients with cerebral palsy or a traumatic brain injury struggle to control one of their arms and...
Luminate
Endotracheal intubation is used in the NICU to provide assisted ventilation for neonates suffering from respiratory disorders. In very premature...
UroDeflect
Urinary diversion via a percutaneous nephrostomy tube (PCN tube) is a surgical procedure that temporarily redirects the natural flow of...
HerniAid
Approximately 5 million adults in the US are currently living with a hernia. A large subset of these patients have...
Kardia Health: A better placement of the MitraClip to the Mitral Valve leaflets during a Transcatheter Edge to Edge Repair (TEER)
The mitral valve sits within the heart and consists of two leaflets that open and close during the cardiac cycle....
OneShot: We seek to make saliva samples the first choice for disease detection
Interest in saliva as a painless, biofluid collection modality has risen because of the COVID-19 epidemic. However, saliva typically has...
OR Smart: Anesthesia Syringe Organization Hardware for Patient Safety
85-90% of anesthesia providers have committed at least one drug error or near miss in their careers. These errors are...
CardioViz: Improving the treatment of tricuspid valve disease with 4D fusion cardiac imaging
Approximately 8 million patients across the United States and Europe suffer from moderate-to-severe tricuspid regurgitation (TR), a chronic and progressive...
SmartPuncture: This micropuncture needle confirms when it is inside a vessel
ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) is a form of cardiopulmonary bypass that oxygenates a patient’s blood and ensures adequate blood flow...
Intracranial Ultrasound: Implantable ultrasound for early brain tumor detection
Occurring in 3.19 out of every 100,000 Americains, glioblastomas are the most common intracranial brain tumor and almost always recur...
DioTeX: Rapid internal hemorrhage diagnostic tool for combat care
Hemorrhagic shock, a condition where the body shuts off critical functions such as breathing and consciousness, is triggered by heavy...
Solerius: Lower limb symptom tracking for monitoring Parkinson Disease
Parkinson Disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that affects over 1 million individuals in the United States. PD produces...
Catarax: Temperature control of ocular environment for improved cataract surgery outcomes.
Cataracts are the clouding of the ocular lens and is the leading cause of blindness worldwide. In the USA alone,...
Skinflate: A More Comfortable Way to Expand Pediatric Tissues
Some pediatric patients have lesions (moles, birthmarks, tumors), burns, or scars that are too expansive for excision and primary closure....
SpectroSight: Maximizing intraoperative meningioma resection via precise tool-tissue force sensing
According to the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, meningiomas are the most common type of brain tumor, accounting for nearly...
Magnes: A robust method of detecting magnets within foreign body ingestions
Foreign body ingestions occur frequently among children and young adults, with 74,725 cases per year in the US alone, and...
Oxygenix: A smart home oxygen system to optimize oxygen delivery for chronic lung disease patients
Every day, patients with chronic lung diseases experience shortness of breath and other debilitating symptoms that limit their daily activity,...