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Abstract: This Fast-track SBIR application will fund and enable a new approach to respiratory monitoring, continuous predictive respiratory monitoring (CPRM), that stands to reduce morbidity and mortality due to respiratory compromise, while reducing health care system costs. Current devices and systems (human and machine) for respiratory monitoring are responsive by sounding a warning alarm when ...

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT This proposal will improve the care of patients suffering from Acute Ischemic stroke (AIS). Catheter-based thrombectomy has been established as the standard treatment for AIS. Still, substantial limitations remain: lt50% of patients achieve first-pass clot clearance, the best predictor of good neurological outcome, largely due to shortcomings in the approach (transfemoral ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most common type of muscular dystrophy, caused due to mutations in the dystrophin gene. DMD is characterized by progressive muscle wasting and overall loss of muscle function. DMD patients become wheel chair dependant by 12 years of age and the associated cardiorespiratory complications result in their early death around 20 years of age. Dys ...

Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a devastating acute inflammatory condition of the gastrointestinal tract resulting in intestinal necrosis, systemic sepsis and multi-system organ failure found mostly in infants born prematurely. Despite modern medical advances in the past decade, the etiology remains elusive and morbidity and mortality are still unacceptably high. It has been concluded that the ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Breast milk is an unmatched bioactive source of nutritional, immunological, and neurodevelopmental benefits for infants that evolves as an infant grows to meet their unique health and nutritional needs. As such, breast milk is considered the clinical gold standard for infant feeding, and both the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) recommend ...

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The goal of this small business innovation research grant is to commercialize a cost-effective and contrast-free intraoperative ureter detection system, which integrates into a laparoscopic vessel sealing device to identify ureters in real-time and prevent iatrogenic injuries. 70% of iatrogenic ureteral injuries are detected postoperatively, up to 30 days after hospital di ...

Project Summary/Abstract Alzheimer’s disease (AD) affects more than six million Americans currently and is projected to affect 14 million at a cost of $1.2 trillion in 2050. Despite its tremendous impacts and the limited influence of pharmacological therapies, attention has been brought to non-pharmacological interventions as promising therapeutic strategies for the prevention of cognitive decli ...

7. Project Summary ADRD dementias account for up to 25% of all dementias in patients older than 65 years and there is strong evidence of co-morbid pathologies caused by (amyloid β (Aβ), tau and α-synuclein (αSyn). The degree of AD- related pathology in Lewy Body Dementias (LBD) is moderate or severe in 50% of PDD and more than 70% of DLB patients have concomitant AD-related pathology so that t ...

Abstract The National Institute on Aging (NIA) supports numerous studies and archives that collect and disseminate critical data about the aging population of the United States. By supporting the collection and dissemination of longitudinal and multidisciplinary data, the NIA provides researchers the opportunity to measure change and stability in individuals over time, as well as to investigate ag ...

Project Summary/Abstract Minnesota HealthSolutions Corporation (MHS) proposes to develop a child safety seat with a novel intuitive harness tensioning system to improve the rate of proper harnessing of children into child safety seats. Children are harnessed into child safety seats via a 5-point harness with shoulder straps that buckle at the crotch. The entire harness assembly must be properly te ...