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Modular Aeromedical Transport System |
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The U.S. Air Force currently relies on pre WWII technology to carry patients during transport. But canvas sheets on wooden poles can't meet the wide variety of patient needs, including accommodating medical treatment equipment such as ventilators,
defibrillators, IV pumps and monitors, which accompany critical care patients.
Under a contract with the Air Force Research Laboratory, Techshot recently developed a safer, lighter and more comfortable modular patient transport system that fully... Read more |
| Hydrogen on Demand |
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Indianapolis-based  AlGalCo hired Techshot to develop an electricity generation system, which is powered by hydrogen it produces on demand by combining an aluminum alloy with... Read more | |
| IN THE LAB NOW -- Real-time Blood Volume Monitor |
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Thanks to television medical dramas, most people have heard emergency room doctors order a litany of tests when a critical patient enters the hospital. Information about a patient's blood level, particularly hematocrit (the fraction of whole blood volume that consists of red blood cells), is essential for making treatment decisions in the ER and the Intensive Care Unit.
Today, blood is drawn manually and sent to a laboratory and the results are relayed to caregivers as soon as possible - a process typically repeated multiple times in the first hours of care for patients experiencing acute blood loss.
Currently under development in the Techshot laboratories is a working prototype of a first-of-its-kind device that will provide caregivers with real-time blood volume data. New Paradigm Concepts, founded by ER Physician Dr. Ed McEowen and his wife Mary Jo, hired the company in March 2008 to build the unit. Techshot also is working closely with Indianapolis-based Piezo Technologies, which is developing the device's implantable sensors.
Due to be completed this fall, the prototype first will be tested with animals. Testing with humans could begin in 2009. Watch for more updates in future issues of Techshots.
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