EXOSKELETON ASSISTIVE GLOVES FOR CHEST TUBE PLACEMENT
ABSTRACT
Chest tube placement is a standard emergency procedure for pleural fluid and air drainage. The purpose of chest tube placement is to return negative pressure to the intrapleural space, to drain air, blood, and fluid from intrapleural space and to relieve respiratory distress. Chest tube insertion puts patients at risk of several complications, including pain during placement, infection, bleeding, poor tube placement. The current practice of chest tube insertion (CTI) is associated with morbidity rates of up to 21%. The main causes of morbidity include organ injuries (insertional) and malposition upon insertion (positional), each of which has a strong association with the proficiency and competency of the practitioner performing the procedure. Our objective is to build a pressure-sensing device while using a Kelly clamp instrument with pressure and position feedback.
MY WORK
Worked with UT Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW) to create simple, affordable, and intuitive exoskeleton gloves to help young/untrained professionals to place chest tubes in the emergency setting with more accuracy and precision.
Fabricated using flexible silicon and installed sensor on the tips of the finger. The sensors on the trainer glove will be the input to the closed feedback loop where the trainee glove will be loaded with the cartesian position of trainer's collected data, with help of PID controller.
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