Portable Abdominal Insufflator
Portable Abdominal Insufflator
- Clinical Condition
- Uncontrolled and incompressible internal abdominal bleeding causes trauma patient's death before they reach the hospital.
- Current Practice
- No option for pre-hospital bleeding control.
- High risk of pre-hospital death or severe organ damage.
- Solution
- Rapid and controlled abdominal insufflation.
- A pressure gradient compresses injured blood vessels.
- Animal studies: safe and effective temporary bleeding control.
- US patent awarded.
- Large potential market to military and civilian trauma as well as routine laparoscopy.
- Proof of concept prototype available.
