Project Overview
Anaphylaxis is the most severe form of allergic reaction and is potentially life threatening. Once shock has begun an adrenaline dose must be administered immediately and emergency services contacted. Fatalities more often occur away from home and are associated with either not using, or a delay in the use of adrenaline; children are at a major risk due to this. My proposal is to create a product for children that monitors and automatically administers adrenalin whilst simultaneously contacting emergency services.
Organisation
Team
Victor Bejan - RMIT
Luca Abate - RMIT
Paul Charlwood - Charlwood Design.
Project Brief
We were approached with the brief of creating a niche medical product that incorporates wireless technology in a unique way.
Project Innovation/Need
The injection of adrenaline is proposed via a non-invasive hypodermic needle. This means that there is no physical needle breaking the skin but instead adrenaline is propelled through the skin via pressurized air. It was key to discover alternative methods of administering adrenaline to as the product is intended for children.
Design Challenge
Discovering how to administer adrenaline without puncturing skin was a key challenge to overcome. Physically prototyping the three part silicon mold to create a single continuous form was also a great challenge.
Sustainability
The sustainability of this project exists in the fact that it replaces single use epipens.
Product Design - Concept
This award celebrates creativity and innovation for either a product design at conceptual stage - an early sample or model of a product that has not reached the manufacture stage nor available to the market.
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