Archive for August 2017
2016 Vital Sign Monitoring in Low Resource Settings
Aran Bahl, Matt Chan, Karthik Prasad, Sara Sampson
A low cost device to frequently monitor vital signs in developing countries.
Read More2016 Pain Monitoring in Extra-Clinical Settings
Tyler Davis, Alison Long, Botao Peng
A device that accurately gauges pain intensity in older adults with multiple chronic conditions, in order to improve the clinical prescription of pain medication.
Read More2016 Monitoring Impending Respiratory Failure in an Outpatient Setting
Justin Choe, Andrew Hild, Dhruv Kothari, Anisha Kumar
A method to predict impending type II respiratory failure in outpatients with COPD to reduce the rate of respiratory related outpatient mortality.
Read More2016 Automobility Transfer Device
Anne Zeng, Katelyn Greene, Giang Ha
A device capable of handling loads the lower extremities typically experience through vehicle ingress and egress provides the user with stability needed for a comfortable and safe vehicle transfer.
2016 Tremor Detection for Parkinson’s Patients
Ashlee Horn, Jeff Hsiao, Katherine Spack, Alex Takahashi
A tool to accurately record patients’ symptoms which delays the determination of a stable drug regimen by a neurologist. This solution simplifies symptom monitoring, enabling neurologists to quickly identify an effective treatment regimen for the patient.
2016 Quantitative Assessment of Degree and Spatial Extent of Pain Nerve Block
Darya Fadavi, Jeffrey Feng, Noreen Wauford
To measure the degree and spatial extent of pain nerve block both quantitatively and precisely in post-operative thoracic and abdominal adult surgical patients who have been given an epidural for their anesthetic administration.
2016 Screening for Autonomic Nervous System Dysfunction
Maxine Arnush, Priya Bhattacharjee, Joshua Chen, Richard Xu
A method to screen for ANS dysfunction in symptomatic pediatric patients who have been referred to a neurologist in order to reduce cases of misdiagnosis and improve treatment outcomes.
Capstone alumni featured in New York Times
Two startup companies spun out of BioE 192 Senior Capstone Design projects are taking the world of remote health monitoring by storm. Read how the heart and asthma monitoring devices by Eko Devices and Knox Medical Diagnostics are changing the landscape of medicine.
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