As a part of the final-year degree project, the students have come up with several inventions in the field of healthcare.
'Invention' might sound awe-inspiring to some, but for students of biomedical engineering at LD Engineering College, it is something they've integrated into their daily lives. As a part of the final-year degree project, the students have come up with several inventions in the field of healthcare.
The 'rapid card test reader', developed by a group of three students - Mauli Desai, Vidhi Amin and Chhaya Parmar, is a device capable of reading and decoding the colour bands of test strips for various health tests like pregnancy tests, urine tests, drug tests and virus tests for diseases like H1N1, tuberculosis and HIV, and deliver precise results for the same.
Not only does the device eliminate the requirement of skilled lab technicians or doctors to read the test results, but also solves the problems of lab assistants who are colour blind or visually impaired.
Desai said, "One just has to follow a simple procedure. By the end of the test, the device will give precise test results via an LCD screen. It can also give a print out of the results."
Desai said she'd easily call the device a real 'invention', as such products are not available in the market yet.
Another group of five students is developing a device called 'endotracheal cuff pressure monitor' to automatically measure and maintain appropriate pressure on the trachea (wind pipe) during the process of a patient's ventilation, to assist breathing.
Purva Soral, a member of the team, said: "During a patient's ventilation, when the endotracheal (ET) tube is inserted into the trachea, it is very important to maintain the pressure exerted by the ET pipe on the trachea walls at desired levels.”
“A low pressure will allow seepage of air between the trachea and the ET pipe, while excessive pressure could burst the trachea. The device that we are developing will automatically help in exerting and maintaining the desired pressure," she further said.
The other team members are Meghna Patel, Bushra Narmawala, Pooja Gohel and Sonali Yadav. They say they're almost through with making the device.
While more inventions like the non-invasive glucometer, a device to test blood sugar levels without pin pricks, are emerging from the students of the department, other students of the batch are also experimenting and trying their hands at developing devices like myoelectric prosthetic hands or robotic hands to replace amputated ones, wireless ECG and so on.
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