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Vascular Access Safeguard

Our team is focusing on creating a tamper-evident device that will protect the access port of all vascular access. Our device is also meant to reduce central line bloodstream infections (CLABSI) associated with intentional and unintentional tampering.

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Automated Histology

Our team focuses on automating the mounting process of histology and our device would work together with microtome.

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Baxter Smart Room

The Baxter Smart room team has designed a prototype to address smart infusion pump related problems that harm the patient experience in hospitals.

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Cervical Spine Diary

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CT-Guided Angle Device

Our device is designed to stabilize needle entry and advancement at set angles during CT-guided procedures.

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Smart Hip Broaching System

The Smart Hip Broaching System is a device intended to collect data on impaction force and rotational movements during the broaching process in total hip arthroplasty (THA). The system will provide live feedback of this data and guide the orthopedic surgeon toward optimal placement of the femoral stem during surgery.

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JungleCup Surveillance

The JungleCup is a small, portable, and weather-proof device that can operate in various Costa Rican environments that attracts and traps mosquitoes to determine the prevalence of dengue virus.

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Less Scary Cast Removal

Our project is to design an alternative device or system that removes orthopedic casts and is less scary than the current cast saw device.

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Neonatal CPAP Mask

Our project aims to design an improved neonatal CPAP mask that reduces the amount of pressure exerted on the neonate’s delicate skin and detects air leakage at the mask-neonate interface.

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Nerve Conduction Velocity Measurement For Intraoperative Positioning Nerve Damage

A device aiming to prevent peripheral nerve damage during surgery and simplify operating room procedures.

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TILT ON THE TOILET

A device to improve the quality of life of individuals suffering from neurogenic bowel.

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Fall Prevention

Our device uses accelerometers to detect unassisted bed-exit motion to prevent falls in hospitals.

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Video Oculography

A wireless Video Oculography system with two cameras to efficiently and accurately diagnose vestibular disorders

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Urine Detection: Detection with Dignity

A device to detect urinary incontinence due to loss of bladder control.

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Safe Patient Transfer

A new mechanism for patient transfers that will minimize the prevalence of back injuries in nurses during lateral patient transfers, while sustaining the safety of the patients.

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Orthopaedic Surgeon Radiation Exposure Reduction

A creative device to protect medical professional from radiation with females physiques in mind

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Arthroplastics

A surgical simulator with realistic sensory feedback for total knee replacement surgery training.

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Improved Neck Brace

A cervical orthotic for patients experiencing head drop due to neuromuscular diseases, such as ALS. The brace will focus on support, comfort, and controlled motion.

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Home Exercise System for Knee Pain

Creating an affordable, accessible, and effective home exercise device to target chronic knee pain.

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Cost-Effective HIV Viral Load Assay

To design a cassette for a cost effective and fast HIV viral load assay to increase testing accessibility in areas such as sub-Saharan Africa where HIV rates are highly prevalent.

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Hemodialysis Inline Analysis

A benchtop inline analyzer to measure the concentration of urea in spent dialysate.

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Droplet Placement Positioning System for Fluid Deposition

A high-resolution fluid deposition system for use with Waveguide-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy sensors.

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Catheter Detection, Tracking, and Virtual Image Reconstruction

An integrated image processing system to track a surgical catheter in occluded surgical views.

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Beard Adaptor for Ventilation Mask

An adaptor device able to attach to a ventilation/anesthesia mask to improve gaseous medication delivery to patients with facial hair.

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Action Trackchair Controller

A new wireless controller for the Action Trackchair to allow for use by a caregiver of those unable to control the chair on their own.

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Cataract Surgery Device for the Developing World

Cataracts, a hardness and opacifying of the lens, is the leading cause of curable blindness worldwide, with the majority of cases occurring in developing countries where trained ophthalmologists are scarce. Our project is to develop a device to be used for a simplified cataract surgery that will insert a cylindrical intraocular lens into the cataract. By simplifying the procedure, more healthcare providers can be trained to perform the procedure, increasing the accessibility of cataract treatment in developing countries.

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Dr. Drain – Surgical Drain Securement Device

A surgical drain is placed within an internal wound site to prevent fluid from accumulating in the body throughout the patient’s recovery. A suture is currently used to secure the drain to the patient but has multiple shortcomings including infection risk and failure over time. We have worked alongside Dr. Sara Neimanis to create a new securement device that minimizes infection while durably securing the drain over extended periods of time.

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Cautery Phantom

The cautery phantom senior design team will engineer and improve a system that will arrest artificial blood flow in response to electrocautery in a tissue phantom manufactured by Simulated Inanimate Models, LLC (SIM). To solve this problem, we have investigated methods of vessel constriction by lining the tissue phantom blood vessel wall with a thermoresponsive material, coagulating the artificial blood by introducing proteins and chemicals into the mixture, and by making the blood vessel with a shape memory polymer.

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Spica Chair

A chair specifically designed to safely and comfortably sit infants and young children that are immobilized by a cast that spans from the mid abdomen to the ankle, all while allowing proper social and cognitive development. The chair incorporates extra space for the casted torso and legs, as well as multiple aspects of adjustability to fit the wide range of children sizes and to fit under tables of varying heights.

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Emergency Vehicle Alert (E.V.A.)

There is a need to ensure that drivers are alerted of approaching emergency vehicles so that they can remove themselves from the path of the emergency vehicle. It is especially a challenge for deaf, hard of hearing, and distracted drivers to identify emergency signals, which puts them at an increased risk for collision. In this project, we developed a device for use in the car that detects emergency vehicles and notifies the driver of their presence. We used a trained convolutional neural network to detect sirens in noisy environments. On our validation set, we achieved a 95% detection accuracy with a 50% criterion. A demonstration of our real-time detector and design schematic are shown below.