capstone

Team Members:  Edward Ha, Iris Jiang, Kim Nguyen Capstone Client:  Jennifer Shih, Stratman Lab, UCSF Purpose/Goal: Over 30 million people in the U.S. per year undergo general anesthesia for medical procedures. Research has shown that long exposure times to anesthesia may have detrimental effects on the brain. The Capstone team introduced a modular design that integrates the…

Team Members:  Dana Donnenwirth, Dean Nehama, Dan Rosen Capstone Client:  Wito Richter, Associate Researcher UCSF Department of Gynecology, Obstetrics, and Reproductive Sciences Purpose/Goal: Measuring the beat rate of cardiac myocytes in response to various external agents will allow quantitation of the myocyte response to stimuli. Existing measuring methods require excessive time-consuming analysis. The team’s goal was to…

Team Members:  Chian Gong, Merline Hidayat, Robert Lamorena Capstone Client:  Carol Miller, MD Clinical Professor, Pediatrics, UCSF Purpose/Goal: Early diagnosis of dehydration in newborns is difficult., as most methods are applicable to larger body weight individuals. Existing dehydration detectors utilize bioelectrical impedance, ultrasound, or PEAPOD to determine dehydration. The team aimed to create a new device that…

Team Members:  Ye Qiu, Atul Saxena & Eric Stone Capstone Client:  Wilbur Lam, MD, PhD, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, UCSF Purpose/Goal: The cerumen removal process can be completed by a pediatrician/family doctor for an ear infection for pediatric patients. The team set out to design a device that would allow for an accurate diagnosis of an ear infection with…

Team Members:  Alisa Dong, Atul Urs, Eric Phoumthipphavong Capstone Client:  Dennis Nielson, MD, UCSF Pediatrics Purpose/Goal: Current biomedical foreign body retrieval devices often fail after pediatric airway insertion, rendering retrieval and other specifications worthless. The team aimed to develop a foreign body retrieval basket that exhibited the following qualities: – Deployment of basket – Capture of all…

Team Members:  Matthew Johnson, Elena Liang, Aron Lau Capstone Client:  Alfred Kuo, MD, Orthopaedic Surgery, UCSF Purpose/Goal: More than 40 million Americans (~15% of the overall U.S. population) suffer from arthritis. Human cartilage has limited to no ability to heal itself when it is badly damaged. The capstone team set out to design a bioreactor for chondrocytes…

Team Members:  P Singh, S Geissler, S Wang, and R Johnson Capstone Client:  James Hardy, M.D., UCSF Emergency Medicine Specialist Purpose/Goal: Cricothyroidotomy is an emergency surgical procedure in which a hole is made through the membrane of the patient’s neck into the windpipe to allow air into the lungs. The current cricothyroidotomy Seldinger technique involves inserting a…

The Branched Thoracic Catheter; Efficient Hemothorax Drainage Through Localization Targeting Team Members: Gary Chan, Albert Lan, Kathleen Lo, Tiffany Truong Capstone Clients:  Rais Vohra, M.D., UCSF – Fresno Emergency Medicine Physician; Steven Cheung, M.D., UCSF Head and Neck Surgeon Purpose: Thoracostomy procedures involve an incision made into the chest wall to provide an opening for drainage via a chest…

Raymond Lee, Aleo Mok, Jessica Wen, Elaine Su
In conjunction with the CellScope team at UC Berkeley, this Capstone team developed a low-cost, portable device to generate consistent and high-quality sputum samples for the diagnosis of tuberculosis via cell phone based imaging.