Guidance Recipients
Match would-be startups with local industry, academia, and related institutionsEndotracheal Incubation and Imaging System for Neonates and Infants
Tsao Po-nien, National Taiwan University Hospital
Year 2017Year
Period:2017-12-01 to 2019-05-31
Overview
- When performed on neonates and infants, endotracheal intubation tends to encounter upper airway obstruction and more-than-desirable secretions. Visionary deficiency makes intubation difficult, and tissue close to the respiratory tract is likely to sustain damage, bleed, or get infected accordingly.
- With a micro CMOS image sensor at the core, the team has developed a video-guided neonatal endotracheal intubation and replacement system applicable to catheters of 2.5mm-4mm in diameter.
- Thanks to the capacity for speeding up neonatal endotracheal intubation and replacement, doctors can be expected to better take up other clinical challenges.
Development Process
Over the course of this project under the Applied Research Incubation Program, the team completed a prototype, specification and functionality assays, electrical safety tests, biocompatibility tests, animal tests, software validation, and 30-doctor usability tests, as well as filed a submission to the FDA. On January 30, 2019, NeoPed Technology Co., Ltd. was established.
