Sunday, January 5, 2014

Better delivery of student invention

There was a system invented by undergraduate students from Johns Hopkins. The role of the system is to shock an irregular heart back to normal rhythm which is considered to both efficient and safe. The system is called the PrestoPatch. According to one of the team members, Sandya Subramanian of Grand Rapids, Mich, one of the biomedical engineering undergraduates, the system is easy to use and it`s more likely to be used by clinicians. The system is able to safely deliver electric shocks to patients with irregular heartbeats and other heart rhythm-related diseases which can be fatal. The team leader is Piyush Poddar of Plainsboro. The clinical sponsor of the team is Todd J. Cohen who believes that the team of researchers invented a system which can dramatically increase heart rhythm in patients with arrhythmia and other similar diseases. “My ultimate goal was to give the students a very positive entrepreneurial experience and allow them to explore their own creativity. The team excelled in every task and had fun at the same time”, said Cohen.

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