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Each day, more than 100,000 patients undergo general anesthesia in the United States. The current practice of general anesthesia is prone to over-sedating patients, either due to the lack of brain monitoring or using brain monitors with inaccurate indices. Over-sedation (at 28% incidence) contributes to perioperative neurocognitive disorders (PNDs) in elderly population (≥65yrs). The cost of PND ...

Abstract DESCRIPTION. Our FastTrack SBIR proposal has developed HD64—a high-resolution, spinal cord stimulation therapy to provide more pain relief with greater specificity for those suffering from chronic neuropathic pain and opioid dependence. Over 25 million in the U.S. suffer from debilitating pain in the trunk and extremities and 55% depend on opioids to ease their suffering. Opioid abuse h ...

Proprietary: This proposal includes trade secrets and other proprietary or confidential information of Highland Instruments and is being provided for use by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the sole purpose of evaluating this SBIR proposal. No other rights are conferred. This proposal and the trade secrets and other proprietary or confidential information contained herein shall further ...

While total joint replacement prostheses have been a great success for over 80 years in providing mobility to patients with osteoarthritis, post-surgery complications like aseptic loosening, dislocation and infections remain as problems, often leading to costly and complicated revision surgery. The objective of this proposal is to address implant dislocation, the second most common complication fo ...

Abstract For about 175,000 leg and hip fractures each year, the best treatment is for an orthopaedic surgeon to implant a stiff metal rod, or intramedullary (IM) nail, through the center of the bone and fix the nail to the bone with screws (distal locking). Distal locking can be difficult and time-consuming step and presents two major challenges. First, the procedure uses C-arm fluoroscopy for gui ...

PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACT Over the course of this two-year Phase II effort, Liberating Technologies, Inc. (LTI), along with its collaborators at Fillauer Companies and Hanger Clinic, will refine, expand, and test a bimodal walking-running foot that would then be poised to become a viable commercial product that can be reimbursed under the existing L-code reimbursement structure. The goal of this ...

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The application’s broad objective is to create a product that is able to improve remote compliance monitoring in pediatric orthotics applications by creating a device that combines all of the ideal compliance monitoring features into a single device called the Unintrusive Pediatric Logging Orthosis Analytic Device (UPLOAD). Our initial focus is on pediatric orthotic popu ...

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 ...

Abstract Hyperphosphatemic familial tumoral calcinosis (hfTC) is a disease in which patients cannot produce the bioactive form of the hormone Fibroblast growth factor-23 (FGF23), which is secreted by osteocytes to rid the body of phosphate by acting on the kidney. hfTC is characterized by markedly elevated serum phosphate (Pi) which causes large intramuscular calcifications to develop. The calcifi ...

Project Abstract/Summary In the U.S., about 2.1 million people experience a fragility fracture each year. This number is expected to double or triple by 2040 as the population ages. Injuries in the upper and lower extremities equate to more than 40% of fragility fractures, and experiencing a prior fracture is associated with an 86% increased risk of recurrence. Falls from standing height and other ...