News Archive
August 16, 2010
Wireless MedCARE Receives FDA Clearance of VivaTRAK™.
Although the VivaTRAK system is currently focused on the elderly in nursing homes, the monitoring technology and task management systems are quite applicable to infants and children cared for in rehabilitation and long-term care environments. With minor modifications, this system has the potential for home use as well. More>August 4, 2010
PMDI Consortium Hospital, Dell Children’s Medical Center, receives TEAM-Broselow™ unit for evaluation.
Hosted by Dell Children’s CEO, Robert Bonar, the team of Jim Broselow, Andy Muelenaer, Al Wicks, and Virginia Tech graduate student, Carlos Guevara, provided familiarization of the device for Emergency Medicine personnel. Assistant Medical Director, Eric Higginbotham, MD, will continue to work with the PMDI and the TEAM-Broselow™ developers as the project evolves into a product. PMDI Consortium member, the Childress Institute for Pediatric Trauma has provided funding for this critical aspect of medical device development.August 2, 2010
Through generous funding by the Childress Institute for Pediatric Trauma, the Pediatric Electronic Device for Emergency Resuscitation/PED-ER has continued to mature.
Marketing research suggested that PED-ER would be better branded through its association with Dr. Jim Broselow, the Broselow-Luten Tape, and its attribute of enhancing medical team communications, thus its new designation as TEAM-Broselow™. Product commercialization is underway through collaboration by software content provider, Zolstice, and systems integrator, Wireless MedCARE. One of four TEAM-Broselow™ units was displayed at National Instruments NI Week 2010 in Austin, Texas.
PMDI's Andy Muelenaer, Jim Broselow, MD (center), and Virginia Tech Graduate Student Carlos Guevara at NI Week 2010 in Austin, TX
One of four TEAM-Broselow™ units displayed at National Instruments NI Week 2010 in Austin, Texas.
TEAM-Broselow™: For emergency personnel who must deal quickly, efficiently, and accurately with infants and children of various weights and lengths, TEAM-Broselow™ provides critical information to the entire resuscitation team, including treatment algorithms, medication doses, and appropriate sizes of resuscitation equipment in a format allowing the entire treatment team complete access to information, and automatically logs activities such as medication administration during the resuscitation.
May 1, 2010
M-PED Expands to Collaborate with PMDI
Pediatric Medical Device Institute (PMDI) provides a strong network of children's hospitals and an existing portfolio of device ideas moving toward commercialization. The two organizations will exchange training assets and best practices on advancing pediatric devices.March 31, 2010
Student project team member, Thao Do, a senior within the Virginia Tech College of Engineering has been selected as a National Institutes of Health-Oxford-Cambridge Scholar. more>
Richard Childress and Dr. Muelenaer
during 3/24/10 PED-ER demoMarch 24, 2010
PED-ER demonstrated for governing board of Childress Institute for Pediatric Trauma.March 3, 2010
PED-ER unit installed at Center for Applied Learning: Surgical Skills Development Center, WFU-Baptist Medical Center/Brenner Children's Hospital.February 2010
Paper accepted for presentation of project sponsored by PMDI at Virginia Tech: Thao P. Do, Devin S. Coulter, Lindsey J. Eubank, John M. Freihaut, Carlos E. Guevara, and Alfred L. Wicks- Virginia Tech Department of Mechanical Engineering, Blacksburg, VA. Andre A. Muelenaer, Carilion Clinic Children's Hospital,Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, Roanoke, VA. AUTOMATIC OXYGEN DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR PREMATURE BABIES Proceedings of the 2010 Design of Medical Devices Conference (DMD2010) April 13-15, 2010, Minneapolis, MN, USAJanuary 2010
First PED-ER unit installed for testing at the Center for Experiential Learning, Carilion Clinic Children's Hospital.
PMDI awarded $63,000 by the Childress Institute for Pediatric Trauma to develop the Pediatric Electronic Device for Emergency Resuscitation (PED-ER)October 13, 2009
PMDI sponsored Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering student projects presented at Southwest Virginia Life Science Forum: AUTOMATIC OXYGEN DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR PREMATURE BABIES & Pediatric Electronic Device for Emergency Resuscitation (PED-ER)September 2009
PMDI initiated , An Acoustic Sensor for Airflow in Pediatric Artificial Airways, $23,000 pilot grant funded by Carilion Clinic Research Acceleration ProgramApril 15, 2009
Andre Muelenaer, MD - PMDI Co-Director nominated for the NewVA Corridor Technology Council's NewVa Leadership Award, which recognizes one of our own who not only succeeds in the workplace, but also leads by example by contributing significantly to the community in which we live. more>
