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Testing and Commercialization of a Superior Device to Maintain Perioperative Normothermia In Anesthetized Patients

Award Information
Agency: Department of Health and Human Services
Branch: National Institutes of Health
Contract: 2R42GM119871-02
Agency Tracking Number: R42GM119871
Amount: $1,498,909.00
Phase: Phase II
Program: STTR
Solicitation Topic Code: 300
Solicitation Number: PA17-303
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2017
Award Year: 2018
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2018-09-01
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2020-08-31
Small Business Information
29001 CEDAR RD STE 326
Cleveland, OH 44124-6501
United States
DUNS: 079841470
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 DANIEL SESSLER
 (216) 444-4900
 ds@or.org
Business Contact
 BRIAN PATRICK
Phone: (216) 777-1492
Email: brian@mercurybiomed.com
Research Institution
 CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION
 
9500 EUCLID AVE.
CLEVELAND, OH 44195-0001
United States

 Domestic Nonprofit Research Organization
Abstract

Project SummaryAbstractThis proposal presents Phase II of Mercury Biomedandapos s plan for commercializing the new and innovative WarmSmart technology to more effectively keep surgical patients normothermicWarmSmart embodies several breakthrough concepts in bioheat transfer to manage core temperatureWe are building a costcompetitive patient warming technology that will be superior to existing technologies while being more convenienteasy to useand safeWell established clinical evidence shows that unwarmed anesthetized patients rapidly become aboutC hypothermicWe have also shown in many randomized trials that this degree of hypothermia promotes surgical site infectionimpairs drug metabolismand increases blood loss and transfusion requirementThe most widely applied technology for keeping patients warm during surgery uses heating applied over large areas of the body surface via forced convection of hot air through a cover surrounding patientsA recent study of surgical patients shows that this technology fails to keep patients above the minimum acceptable core temperatureCin two thirds of patientsForced air covers also occupy large fractions of the body surface which can restrict access to patients during surgeryWarmSmart requires access to only the hands and feet where uniquely high rates of blood flow can occur through glabrous skinThe Division of PharmacologyPhysiology and Biological Chemistry has a list of approved topics that includedevelopment oftreatments involved in peri operative conditionsand this project advances those objectivesIn Phase Iwe made considerable advances in both the technology and understanding of the human physiology related to the technologyBoth Phase I specific aims were accomplished throughexecuting physiological experiments in humans that provided conclusive evidence that our system reduces the vasoconstriction thresholdcore temperature triggering thermoregulator vasocontrictionin patients subjected to a cooling stimulusandbuilding a fully functioning working prototype of a solid state system that uses Positive Temperature Coefficient heating apparatus at the glabrous skin region to efficiently transfer heat to the human bodyPhase II of the project will have five specific aims to prepare for the commercialization of the WarmSmart devicemeasure the physiological sensitivity of the Selective Thermal StimulationTemperatureCycle timesSTS Locationdetermine the rate at which the WarmSmart system can warm anesthetized patientstest the hypothesis that the WarmSmart systemandapos s performance is non inferior to current forced air warming solutionsdesign and develop a commercializable WarmSmart systemandsecure FDA approval for the WarmSmart system Project Narrative Mercury Biomed seeks to continue clinical validationdevelopment and application for FDA approval of its novel peri operative warming technology to provide anesthetized patients and their operating room clinical staff with a welcomed alternative to current patient warming technologies

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