2018 / Italy
2018 / Italy
Reshaping the future of Epidural Anesthesia. To be used by anesthesiologists in epidurals and compatible with the standard ‘loss of resistance’ technique.
HEALTH
SECTOR
Problem.
Still a manual approach in clinical use.
Doctors still use manual approaches in performing epidurals: the success of the operation largely depends on the operator experience. Current failure rate is up to 30% in clinical practice.
Solution.
A safer and more effective way.
The innovative system allows guidance of the needle until it reaches the epidural space, verification of the correct placement of the catheter and automatically detect possible kinking phenomena, the main cause of the failure of epidural procedures.
It stems one fall evening from a chat between two friends over a beer, actually the beers were a few more…the doctor friend tells about a problem he had during an epidural and the engineer friend thinks about how optical fiber sensors can solve it.
It was during a scientific dissemination event on the startup world held at the Engineering Department at University of Sannio. On that occasion Day One listened to project ideas provided by different research groups, and liked ours very much.
1. Self-examination: question your idea, at different stages, and fall in love with it only after you have ‘mistreated’ it… only if you are in love will you be able to make others fall in love too
2. Team Building: entrust your idea to the right people, don’t go it alone…there is a need for excellence and not improvisation in building a successful project team
3. Commitment: invest your time, turn your idea into your work … your example is what other people (including investors!) see
