SuturAid – Ischemia Reducing Anastomotic Aid

Kevin Malone, Francis Pham, James Taylor

SuturAid is a result of tackling the problems with the treatment and intervention of aortic aneurysms. During treatments, a graft is put in place of the aneurysm. Their design efforts are centered around creating a reliable device that reduces the amount of time is takes to place the graft, and therefore preventing ischemia of the kidneys.

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BilliPen

BME: Shaan Sethi, Brent Huxel, Dan Goldberg, Ashley Johnson
Computer ENG: Blaine Booher, Lee Carraher
Electircal ENG: Ben Noble, Salman Nasir
DAAP: Sally Pipkin, Alan

A project that picked up where the previous bilirubin team left off, the redesigned BiliRead took what was learned and enhanced the device. Although the clinical problem was set, this team proves that design never stops, and created a new device interface while enhancing the programming that went into this minimally invasive bilirubin device.

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Diabetic Foot Care

Phil Gettinger, Amro Kamel, Denise Brunck, John Vennemeyer, Maya Harmon, Molly (DAAP)

Innovation doesn’t stop because the class ends. This team created a device that tests the temperature of the feet of a diabetic patient to check for lesions that could result in infection or amputation. The plans for this device are to take it to market, and create a household device that could save diabetic patients time and pain.

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Hemostatic Valve

Catherine Teuschle, Wendy Goodwin, Whitney Gaskins, Youngmin Ahn

Today in interventional radiology, catheters are used to gain access to the brain by the femoral artery. This team focused on developing a dual seal hemostatic valve that will decrease the amount of back bleeding by maintaining pressure during a catheter exchange, and reducing the event of a clot formation.

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Intubation – Radlyn

Angie Albright, Fahad Ali, John Besse, Tommy Cramer, Alex Hollandshead, Kate Hoyt, Stephanie Keller, Elizabeth O’Neidy

With a cooperation with the inventors of the Radlyn LLC, this team had the challenge of creating a multi-purpose stylet used in endotracheal intubation. They also wanted to alleviate trauma done to the trachea and vocal cords when performing an endotracheal tube exchange. Their two concepts were a result of the cooperation between the students, the faculty and the clinical advisors.

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Emergency Intubation

Scott Meyer, Michelle Hennard, Shereen Myers, Mohammed Siddiqui, Melanie Suckeraieh (DAAP)

This project was centered around researching methods and coming up with innovative ideas of endotracheal intubation, specifically in emergency settings. The end product was a stylet with a small embedded magnet in the tip inserted into the mouth and directed upward and towards the vocal cords and into the trachea by an electromagnet placed on the outside of the throat. The device was also aided by an introducer to help guide the stylet.

One Pass Saphenous Vein I

Kyle Adkins, Seth Bamesburger, Bob Doerning, Jeff Ruwe

To develop an intuitive, clinically effective, and decreased cost device for saphenous vein harvest procedures in developing world settings. Minimally invasive harvest is too expensive and time consuming in developing world

1. Safely dissects GSV from surrounding tissue
   • Preserves integrity of the GSV
   • Minimal trauma to adjacent tissues
2. Minimally invasive
   • Size of incisions
   • Number of incisions
3. Identifies and separates side branches with minimal bleeding
4. User feedback
   • Visualization of workspace
   • Visualization and/or tactile Feedback at side branch

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One Pass Saphenous Vein II

Ryan Broderick, Arun Nagaraj, Rachel Robitz, Boyu Wang, John Ficker (DAAP)

The team wanted to develop an intuitive, clinically effective and low cost device tailored to saphenous vein harvesting procedures performed in developing countries by creating a device that did not use expensive equipment that a third world country does not have access to use.

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Repironics - Sleep Apnea Device

BME: Laurie Burck, Christine Louie, Nicole Reinhart, Rebecca Robbins
DAAP: Celina Castaneda, Christina Droira, Adam Feist, Thomas Franke, Nathaniel Giraitis, Bryan Porter

Working closely with the Repironics company, the team compiled several themes of unmet needs in devices that treated sleep apnea and created six user profiles that covered the different complaints that patients had with sleep apnea devices. These six devices were narrowed down and combined to create the ideal device.

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Bioreactor

John Bauer, Jeeyeon Cha, Chris Weidner

The purpose of this project is to create a semi-artificial human blood flow circuit that lays the foundation for future aneurysm studies. Because both living and artificial aneurysms are eventually going to be created with the system, it will have the capability to attach a living blood vessel to the artificial blood flow circuit. The system will measure the fluid flow rate and pressure because both of these parameters affect the development of aneurysms. Also, blood vessel wall strain will be measured to determine the degree of aneurysm growth. The project goal is not to create aneurysms, but to create a system that would allow future researchers to grow and measure aneurysms on a living or artificial blood vessel. Because of these aspects of the project, it is named the Vascular In Vitro Pulsatile Response (VIPR) system.

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Foot Orthosis for the Treatment Drop Foot

Crystal Coolbaugh, Becka Mollere, Emily Schoettner, Katie Aring (DAAP), Tom Franke (DAAP)

The clinical problem deal with stroke patients that experienced a walking impediment know as drop foot. The mission of this team was to create a device that was not only a treatment, but adaptable to the patient, aesthetically pleasing, and user friendly.

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Bilipen

BME: Khanh Cao, Chris Lam, Liran Oren, Jennifer Stewart,
DAAP: Celina Castaneda, Margot Decker,Christina Droira, David Nebert

Currently, bilirubin levels fro an infant are checked through drawing blood. By mimicking what a pulse oximeter does and measuring bilirubin levels through optical reflectance, this team created a device and a procedure that significantly reduces the trauma for not only the infant, but the new parents as well.

Intubation

Lauren Hellman, Kevin Marcotte, Walt Lubbers, Matt Puhalla (DAAP)

To develop a system of providing an emergent or semi-emergent airway. This system will be designed with cost considerations competitive to current technologies with the overall goal of improving the safety, efficacy and time required to intubate.

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Anastomosis

Nicholer Ray, Anthony Baurichter, Joe Sedgewick, Chris Hursady (DAAP)

This team concentrated on designing a device that focused on repairing aneurysms of the aorta that extend to the renal arteries. They developed a graft that creates a seal to prevent blood from leaking.

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AtriCure Cardiac Temperature Monitoring

Sofia Szari, Jill Collet, Will Dannahar

The ACTS team worked closely with AtriCure Inc to develop a device that aided in the treatment of atrial fibrillation. Part of the process is actually burning the cardiac tissue using a bipolar device known as the Transpolar® Pen. By monitoring temperature during the procedure, they could provide valuable information about the lesion created and help improve patient safety.

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Laser Guide II

Ashley Mahler, Karey Kraemer, Chris Allen, Emily Reichart

This team wanted to create a device that gave radiologists an accurate method of guiding a biopsy needle and safely removing the sample needed while reducing patient discomfort.

Atricure Robotic Dissector

Samantha Cronier, Ali Grimaldi, Christina Schneider, Daniel Abromowitz

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Laser Guide

Mohammed Herfat, Chad W, Robert Dempsey, Tony Sheyn, Matt (DAAP)

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Ventral Hernia Repair

Gaurav, John Spanyer, Daye Sheyn, Matt Bonelli, Kim Cunningham, Ryan Eder (DAAP), Matt Puhalla (DAAP)