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'''Technical Feasibility'''<br> | '''Technical Feasibility'''<br> | ||
In order to create our product, we must use existing technologies that will allow us to design an expandable yet capable of hardening splint. Our main challenge will be finding the right material for our splint. Also, we must figure out to inflate our splint and have it pressurize correctly. We could use the technology employed in life vests for the inflation, but from there we must figure out how to ensure that the device will inflate enough to be effective. Some problems we could have are we may not be able to inflate our device correctly depending on what materials we use, there could be potential rupture points along the splint, the device could be expensive since it will be more advanced than other splints, | In order to create our product, we must use existing technologies that will allow us to design an expandable yet capable of hardening splint. Our main challenge will be finding the right material for our splint. Also, we must figure out to inflate our splint and have it pressurize correctly. We could use the technology employed in life vests for the inflation, but from there we must figure out how to ensure that the device will inflate enough to be effective. Some problems we could have are we may not be able to inflate our device correctly depending on what materials we use, there could be potential rupture points along the splint, the device could be expensive since it will be more advanced than other splints. | ||
Technical Feasibility Score: 3 | |||
Our product would be using known technologies that are currently used with self-inflating life vests, paired with known materials such as rubber. We will have to do further research, however, in our methodology used to seal the components together in order to prevent rupturing during general use. Furthermore, an adjustment valve and alternative means of inflation paired with a selectively-flexible splint side will be necessary to fulfill our ultimate goal of making a device that can immobilize any appendage. | |||
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'''Clinical Feasibility'''<br> | '''Clinical Feasibility'''<br> | ||
In our clinical trials, we will have to simulate broken bones in dummies and see whether our splint correctly immobilizes and sets the bone. Some clinical risks we could have are the splint could not set the bone properly, the splint could cut off circulation in the limb, or the splint could not immobilize the limb correctly. Also, since we are working on dummies we will be unsure whether the splint is causing pain or not. We could later move onto human subjects, but they would have to come with a unset, broken bone because it would be unethical for us to break their bones. | In our clinical trials, we will have to simulate broken bones in dummies and see whether our splint correctly immobilizes and sets the bone. Some clinical risks we could have are the splint could not set the bone properly, the splint could cut off circulation in the limb, or the splint could not immobilize the limb correctly. Also, since we are working on dummies we will be unsure whether the splint is causing pain or not. We could later move onto human subjects, but they would have to come with a unset, broken bone because it would be unethical for us to break their bones. | ||
Clinical Feasibility Score: 3 | |||
As commented on during lab 1, we found several similar clinically successful devices that target single appendages on the body that are currently being sold in online stores. Though these devices are only realistically single-use, a problem our group is trying to solve, they are currently available without prescription or any major labeling hurdles needed to get them into the healthcare system. | |||
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