Build Committee
Leader: Ken Chiang
Contact:chiangken@gmail.com
BILI-METER: The production of a low cost, easy to use device for measuring the efficacy of phototherapy lights for the treatment of jaundice.
DEFIBRILATOR TESTERS: Built 20 defibrilator testers that will be used in the developing world to ensure the efficacy of defibrilator units.
Repair Committee
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Bayview Internship: EWH is collaborating with Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Institute with volunteers working with engineering technicians to fix broken medical equipment.
Design Committee
Leader:Danielle Dorfman
Contact:ddorfma2@jhu.edu
Respiratory Rate Detector (Members: Danielle Dorfman, Britta Rauck, Srikanth Divi, Heather Benz)-During surgery it can be critically important to monitor the presence or absence of breathing, as well as during recovery. This device should produce an audio pulse (a “beep”) each time the patient breaths. If the impedance plethysmography approach is used, the electrodes should be permanent and reusable. Display of the respiratory rate is a secondary feature. Alarms for respiratory rate are a secondary feature. Device must be highly reliable. We already have our basic idea and we want to submit it to EWH so we can begin building a prototype, but there are a couple of things that we still have to do (budget, sketch, brief explanation of our design).
Manually Powered Otoscope (Members: Shahed Alam, Alan Seifert)- We designed and built prototypes an otoscope for use in developing countries where external power sources are scarce and batteries can be costly to replace. The otoscope utilizes faraday's law of induction to generate power for lighting the field of view of the otoscope. Currently, the prototypes have been sent to the EWH headquarters and will go further evaluation and testing.