Course Name: CBID Master's Projects
EchoSure: Vascular Anastomosis Monitoring
Each year 50,000 patients in the U.S. alone will undergo free flap reconstruction, about 15% of whom will experience non-preventable...
Tissue Analytics
Wound care is not glamorous but a $20 billion global market is hard to ignore. Most of us could not...
Stasys
Type 2 Diabetes: A Shift in Thinking? Twenty five million Americans live with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in the...
Respira
Annually, approximately 800,000 patients rely on mechanical ventilation (MV) delivered through a breathing tube to survive. Over time the presence...
Insight Neurologics
Headaches in the Emergency Department Each year, six million patients visit emergency departments (ED) in the United States (US) with...
HemoGlobe
Anemia in Developing Countries Anemia during pregnancy is defined as hemoglobin (Hb) concentration less than 10g/dL. Maternal anemia affects more...
Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring
Each year, two million babies die annually from intrapartum-related deaths. Another one million are born with defects caused by birth...
Detection of Neonatal Hypothermia
Neonatal hypothermia affects an estimated 17 million newborns annually in developing countries. It is a significant contributing factor to the...
Cardiac Arrhythmia Diagnosis and Treatment for the Developing World
Cardiac arrhythmia patients in the developing world can often go many years of experiencing symptoms such as dizziness and fainting,...
Tremtex: Neurostimulation Devices for the Management of Parkinson’s Disease Symptoms
Tremtex is working in conjunction with clinical and research partners at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine to develop an...
Training System for Vaginal Examination and Fetal Head Assessment
Many caesarean sections are preventable. During our August field immersion trips in Nepal and India, we witnessed high rates of...
Rural Health Kiosk: Providing Primary Care to Rural India
Access to health care is a basic human right. Yet in India, more than 700 million rural people have limited...
Renalert: Real-time Monitor for Acute Kidney Injury
Acute kidney injury, defined as a sudden loss of renal function, occurs in 15 percent of the 600,000 cardiac procedures...
Neonatal Vital Signs Monitoring
In overcrowded neonatal care units where each caregiver is responsible for many babies, there is a serious risk of neonatal...
DrinkSync: Hydration Status Monitor for Chronic Patients
Proper hydration is a problem that is central to everyone’s health. Both overhydration and underhydration have detrimental medical consequences for...
CardiON: Home Monitoring for Heart Failure Management
Heart failure affects the lives of 5.1 million Americans and cost the U.S. economy $39.2 Billion in 2010. An important...
Assistive Device for Non-Image Guided Central Venous Access
Team Brady is working in collaboration with the Medtronic Foundation to assess and address the barriers to pacing therapies in...
uCure TAURUS Treatment System
A urethral stricture is a fibrotic narrowing of the urethra, which acts like a tough scar tissue and leads to...
Tech Connect
For the first time in history more people are dying from a lack of access to safe, essential surgical care...
Salient ENT
Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS), recurrent and persistent inflammation of the nasal sinuses, is a chronic condition that affects almost one in...
PhySim
Each year, 350,000 women and 2 million babies die from birth-related complications. In India specifically, the UN Millennium Development Goals...
Mercury Patch
Pressure ulcers are injuries to the skin and underlying tissue, usually over a bony prominence such as the sacrum, ischial...
InteleCare
Many developing countries face challenges providing primary healthcare to their populations, resulting in increased disease burden, mortality, and healthcare-related poverty....
INFORM
Over 66% of newborn deaths happen during the first week of life due to the fragile immune system of the...
Eclipse
An estimated 1.6 million people in the United States have moderate to severe tricuspid regurgitation (TR), a condition in which...
Apex Pacing Simulator
The 2015-2016 CBID-Medtronic team represents the third year of a global health collaboration initiative between Johns Hopkins and Medtronic. The...
Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
With a population of 1.25 billion, 70% of patients living in rural villages, and a physician-patient ratio of 1:1674,...
TechConnect
The World Health Organization estimates that up to 70% of all biomedical equipment in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is...
SpineAlign
Approximately 55,000 patients undergo corrective surgery for spinal deformity every year. These surgeries involve the placement of screws and rods...
PCN Medical
Antibiotic resistance occurs when bacteria adapt to reduce the effectiveness of drugs, and is expected to be a leading cause...