Project Overview

Stimdia medical, a Minnesota-based instrumentation company, is creating a device to facilitate weaning from medical ventilation. Ventilator-induced diaphragm dysfunction, or VIDD, is when the diaphragm atrophies when it is not being used. During mechanical ventilation, which is a common medical procedure in the U.S., the diaphragm does not get used. Stimdia’s pdStim system seeks to prevent VIDD by electrically stimulating the phrenic nerve, which innervates the diaphragm. The PdStim will not be ventilating the patient.

The problem is that Stimdia’s current test setup, the Michigan Instruments test lung, does not currently simulate patient effort. For this reason, they have tasked us with modifying a test lung to incorporate patient effort by designing a system that manually pulls up on the lung.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XD-hUmGDpnylK3EAvRbnh0aOq2WTNdNJE_ykUxG2kTg/edit?usp=sharing

Team Picture

Files

• Project Design Specifications (October 9, 2019)
• Preliminary Report (October 9, 2019)
• Poster (December 6, 2019)
• FinalReport-TeamBreathTakers (December 11, 2019)

Contact Information

Team Members

• Seth Roge - Team Leader
• Jared Zunenshine - Communicator
• Cole Knickelbine - BSAC
• Parker Callender - BWIG
• Rehaan Machhi - BPAG

Advisor and Client

• Dr. Kip Ludwig - Advisor
• Trace Jocewicz III - Client
• John O'mahony - Alternate Contact