CollarInflate ER medical devices

As of today, at the time of attending accidents in Colombia, a crucial piece of equipment of the neck brace. This is done in order to immobilize the spine at neck level in order to eliminate the chance of aggravating a possible injury to the spinal cord by unwanted movements. Nevertheless, these neck braces are rigid and are unable to fit in obstacles present at several accident scenes, be them car crashes, cave-ins, and collapsed buildings. As a solution to this problem, we have come up with the idea of making an inflatable neck brace. This one is more flexible and is easier to deploy than the traditional neck brace. The strategy to be implemented in selling such objects would be to privately sell these to several companies that deploy ambulances across the city of Bogotá. Naturally, the competition for our product is the traditional Philadelphia style neck brace, but the advantage we have is the flexibility of this model and the decreased dexterity need in our product.

• Autores: Rodríguez Ortiz, Eusebio Felipe
• Tipo de recurso: Trabajo de grado de pregrado
• Fecha de publicación: 2019
• Institución: Universidad de los Andes
• Repositorio: Séneca: repositorio Uniandes
• Idioma: eng
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/45848
• Acceso en línea: http://hdl.handle.net/1992/45848
• Palabra clave: Medicina; Aparatos ortopédicos; Diseño de productos; Equipos de cuidados de salud; Ingeniería
• Rights: openAccess
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/