Abstract Approximately 5 million adults in the US are currently living with a hernia. A large subset of these patients have ventral hernias, which the average person has a 10% chance of developing in their lifetime. 20% of ventral hernia cases lead to emergent...
Abstract A percutaneous core needle lung biopsy is a minimally invasive procedure by which a sample of abnormal lung tissue is obtained through a needle inserted directly into the targeted site of the lung using imaging guidance. The most common complication during...
Abstract At any given time, nearly 1.4 million American children require feeding assistance. Of these children, around 117,000 are neonates and infants who experience persistent, severe feeding dysfunction and must be fed through gastrostomy tubes, the current...
Abstract Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC) is an inflammatory disease that causes bowel necrosis in premature infants. It is the number one cause of death in infants weighing less than 1500 grams and the number one surgical emergency among all patients in the Neonatal...
Abstract In the United States alone, 6.6 million people over the age of 20 are stroke survivors (Mozaffarian et al., 2016). Many of these persons deal with some form of chronic motor dysfunction in one of their upper limbs (Hatem et al., 2016) making activities of...
Below is a comprehensive list of all 2020 Design Day projects from undergraduate and graduate BME students. To learn more about a specific project, please visit the BME Design Day 2020 website. Undergraduate Design Teams HerniAid: Non-Invasive, Real-Time Monitoring of...
