Summary
- Profile Type
- Technology offer
- POD Reference
- TODE20230411008
- Term of Validity
- 11 April 2023 - 12 April 2025
- Company's Country
- Germany
- Type of partnership
- Investment agreement
- Research and development cooperation agreement
- Targeted Countries
- All countries
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General information
- Short Summary
- Scientists at a German university have developed a new method for positively stimulating and distracting children during anesthetic induction.The university is offering both a licensing agreement and technological cooperation agreement.
- Full Description
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Anesthetists around the world work with diversion strategies during anesthetic induction for children. Diversions can greatly increase child comfort and reduce stress symptoms. Anesthesia can be induced intravenously, or anesthetic gas can be inhaled. The latter course requires 30-50 seconds (depending on patient breathing intensity) to take full effect.
Diversion strategies work well as long as no one touches the child or causes him or her to feel discomfort. Whenever there is discomfort, all known diversion maneuvers cease to function.
Scientists at a German university have found a new method of complementing existing approaches with gamification strategies and children’s natural curiosity. Children are invited to play a game that requires breathing through a regular anesthetic circuit. The intensity of each breath is converted into an electronic pulse, which is then transmitted by Bluetooth to an app on a tablet or smartphone so that the child can use it to navigate an avatar through a labyrinth or play another age-appropriate game.
While the child plays, the anesthetist employs an inhaled anesthetic gas (sevoflurane), and the child goes to sleep without stress and without even noticing. No such device is currently available anywhere in the world.
The university offers a licensing agreement to medical technology companies. If there is interest in further development of the process, the university also offers technological cooperation. - Advantages and Innovations
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No such device is currently available anywhere in the world.
The competitive advantages are:
◼ Affordable manufacture
◼ Requires little health personnel training
◼ Environmentally friendly
◼ Lowers patient anxiety level
◼ Reduces medical personnel stress levels - Stage of Development
- Lab tested
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being
- IPR status
- IPR applied but not yet granted
Partner Sought
- Expected Role of a Partner
- The university offers a licensing agreement to medical technology companies. If there is interest in further development of the process, the university also offers technological cooperation.
- Type and Size of Partner
- SME 50 - 249
- SME <=10
- Other
- SME 11-49
- Big company
- Type of partnership
- Investment agreement
- Research and development cooperation agreement
Dissemination
- Technology keywords
- 06001017 - Surgery
- 06001013 - Medical Technology / Biomedical Engineering
- Market keywords
- 05005019 - 'Surgery and Anaesthesiology
- 05004006 - Surgical instrumentation and equipment
- Sector Groups Involved
- Health
- Targeted countries
- All countries
