Improvise isn’t a word parents want to hear from their kid’s doctor. Yet pediatric specialists too often have to jury-rig care because many of the medical devices needed to treat sick children were built for adults.
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Page: Pediatric Medical Device Competition Helps Turn Ideas into Clinical Reality
medical innovations that address a significant, yet unmet pediatric need as part of its device innovation competition. Five winners will be selected to receive $50,000 to help bring their device to market.
Page: Orthopedic surgeon creates world’s first internal bone-lengthening device for young children
An orthopedic surgeon is creating the world’s first implantation device that can lengthen the bones of young children internally. The inventor, a physician at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso (TTUHSC El Paso), expects the device will lead to fewer infections and less pain, making the bone-lengthening process more bearable for children.
Page: 3-D Printing to the Rescue
Revolutionary manufacturing technology is changing medicine, too.
Page: PhotoniCare innovating the way doctors diagnose and treat common middle ear infections in kids
Physicians traditionally use an otoscope to examine the surface of the ear drum, and that technology hasn’t really changed in over a century. With middle ear infections affecting approximately 80 percent of children under the age of three, PhotoniCare is working to actually make the middle ear visible with a new device.
Page: Orthopedist Invents Internal Bone-Lengthening Device for Children
An orthopedic surgeon is creating the world’s first implantation device that can lengthen the bones of young children internally.
Page: UTMB team develops breakthrough in life support care
Life support care could soon undergo significant improvement thanks to technology recently created by a collection of researchers and engineers led by Dr. Donald Prough, chair of the University of Texas Medical Branch’s Department of Anesthesiology.
Page: Doctors, families seeking more medical devices built just for kids
Improvise isn’t a word parents want to hear from their kid’s doctor. Yet pediatric specialists too often have to jury-rig care because many of the medical devices needed to treat sick children were built for adults.
Page: Ultrasound and Laser Tech Improve Pediatric Intubation
As I mentioned in another piece I featured earlier this week, the Children’s National Health System recently announced the finalists of their Third Annual Pediatric Surgical Innovation Symposium hosted by the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation. The competition is intended to bring attention to the needs of pediatric patients in having medical technology […]
Page: Does off-label medical device use save the lives of children?
The answer is a definitive yes. Every day pediatric surgeons across the country improvise using…
