Stanford BIODESIGN researchers have developed a disease breathalyzer for detecting necrotizing enterocolitis in newborns. Newborn babies face a high risk of blood infections (sepsis) and gastrointestinal inflammation and injury disease (necrotizing enterocolitis 'NEC').
Mechanical ventilation (MV) is a widely used treatment modality for the management of respiratory failure in intensive care units (ICU). An estimated 300,000 patients undergo MV annually in the U.S.
This highly instrumented laryngoscope measures intubation mechanics such as force and torque to quantitatively track how a laryngoscope is being inserted.