{"663963":{"#nid":"663963","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Professor and Team Create Tool to Reduce Burn Risk During Surgeries","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAny surgical procedure comes with a degree of risk for patients. But there\u0026rsquo;s also stress for the surgical team who must adhere to strict protocols and procedures to ensure positive safe patient surgical outcomes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAmong the worries: accidentally burning a patient or operating room staff or setting fire to the surgical table draping. Although rare, burns can happen from the heat generated by fiber optic light cables that illuminate endoscopes and camera cables surgeons use during operations to see what\u0026rsquo;s happening internally.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJames Rains, a professor in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/James-Rains\u0022\u003EWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, has developed a device to minimize that risk.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERains is co-founder and CEO of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/jackson-medical.com\/\u0022\u003EJackson Medical\u003C\/a\u003E, an Atlanta-based medical device company that launched in 2016. Its flagship product, GloShield, is a flexible, ceramic fitted heat shield that covers the end of the light cable, which can get as hot as 500 degrees Fahrenheit.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Whenever you want to look inside the body, you need to illuminate it. You need to provide a light source inside the body via a scope,\u0026rdquo; Rains said. The risk is present in the surgical field when equipment is assembled and disassembled, leading\u0026nbsp;to a detached and exposed light cable.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECurrent protocols call for someone on the surgical team to hold the cable or keep it from the patient\u0026rsquo;s skin or material can catch fire.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;But those protocols aren\u0026rsquo;t always strictly followed as Rains and his team found when observing bladder and abdominal surgeries in metro Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Jackson Medical team\u0026rsquo;s observations and understanding of those risks was further underscored through interviews with more than 1,000 clinicians and practitioners across the country.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe GloShield device is designed with a flexible neck connected to a cap that fits snugly over the end of the light cable. The polymer used to create the devices remains cool to the touch. The cap flips up to allow the cable to reconnect to the scope when necessary.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Surgeries are complex, and there are so many decisions that need to be made and so many tasks that need to be addressed by the surgical team,\u0026rdquo; said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gtalumni.org\/s\/1481\/alumni\/19\/interior.aspx?pgid=19588\u0026amp;gid=21\u0026amp;cid=43306\u0022\u003EKamil Makhnejia\u003C\/a\u003E, another co-founder and who serves as the company\u0026rsquo;s chief operating officer. \u0026ldquo;There\u0026rsquo;s charting and taking care of the patient to ensure there\u0026rsquo;s proper equipment and specimen handoffs among team members during the entirety of the surgical procedure.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIt takes less than six seconds for the heat generated by a light cable to melt through a surgical drape or burn a patient, Makhnejia said, explaining that the device has been used in more than\u0026nbsp;100,000 surgeries to date.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s not a matter of if something is going to happen, but when,\u0026rdquo; Rains said, adding that even though the risks remain low, medical professionals want solutions that reduce as many of those risks as possible and establish peace of mind. \u0026ldquo;During a surgical procedure, while you\u0026rsquo;re trying to juggle so many different things \u0026mdash;\u0026nbsp;we want to provide a layer of safety so that clinicians can keep their focus on patient outcome.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThat is the right approach said Dr. Howard Herman, an Atlanta surgeon in otorhinolaryngology, a surgical subspeciality of the head and neck, who has used GloShield in his operations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;There are a lot of risks in surgery, and you try to minimize those risks,\u0026rdquo; said Herman, who has been a practicing surgeon for 29 years. \u0026ldquo;The beauty of this solution is that it mitigates the risk. To me, it should become part of the standard of care.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Jackson Medical team developed and refined the GloShield prototype at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gcmiatl.com\/\u0022\u003EGlobal Center for Medical Innovation\u003C\/a\u003E, a Georgia Tech affiliate, which helps startups in the medical device space through all stages of their lifecycle, ranging from prototype to commercialization.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJackson Medical is also a portfolio company of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/medtech.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for MedTech Excellence\u003C\/a\u003E. A program of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/innovate.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EEnterprise Innovation Institute,\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;the center supports and addresses the unique needs of early-stage medical device technologies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We often use the words disruption and innovation quite liberally, yet companies are far from both,\u0026rdquo; said Nakia Melecio, the Center for MedTech Excellence\u0026rsquo;s director. \u0026ldquo;When I think of the team at Jackson Medical, their technology is not only disruptive, but also a novel solution for most, if not all, surgeons to protect patients from burn injuries with a commonly used surgical tool.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackson Medical\u0026#39;s GloShield device finds success in American hospitals\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Jackson Medical\u0027s GloShield device finds success in American hospitals"}],"uid":"28137","created_gmt":"2022-12-17 21:48:21","changed_gmt":"2023-01-10 13:56:12","author":"P\u00e9ralte Paul","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-12-17T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2022-12-17T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"663964":{"id":"663964","type":"image","title":"Jackson Medical Co-Founders","body":null,"created":"1671314362","gmt_created":"2022-12-17 21:59:22","changed":"1671548617","gmt_changed":"2022-12-20 15:03:37","alt":"Jackson Medical co-founders standing","file":{"fid":"251322","name":"2022-06-08 - JackMed 10.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2022-06-08%20-%20JackMed%2010.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2022-06-08%20-%20JackMed%2010.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":448995,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/2022-06-08%20-%20JackMed%2010.jpg?itok=BM-nI8uO"}},"663965":{"id":"663965","type":"image","title":"GloShield Image","body":null,"created":"1671315154","gmt_created":"2022-12-17 22:12:34","changed":"1671315154","gmt_changed":"2022-12-17 22:12:34","alt":"Image of GloShield devices.","file":{"fid":"251323","name":"2022-06-08 - JackMed 11.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2022-06-08%20-%20JackMed%2011.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2022-06-08%20-%20JackMed%2011.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":243389,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/2022-06-08%20-%20JackMed%2011.jpg?itok=5aKHrYV8"}},"663966":{"id":"663966","type":"image","title":"GloShield Image 2","body":null,"created":"1671315779","gmt_created":"2022-12-17 22:22:59","changed":"1671315779","gmt_changed":"2022-12-17 22:22:59","alt":"Hand holding GloShield device","file":{"fid":"251324","name":"2022-06-08 - JackMed 13.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2022-06-08%20-%20JackMed%2013.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2022-06-08%20-%20JackMed%2013.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":227356,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/2022-06-08%20-%20JackMed%2013.jpg?itok=l56Xt8Sc"}}},"media_ids":["663964","663965","663966"],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"},{"id":"139","name":"Business"}],"keywords":[{"id":"191765","name":"Jackson Medical"},{"id":"13868","name":"Global Center for Medical Innovation"},{"id":"191766","name":"GloShield"},{"id":"169511","name":"surgery"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"106361","name":"Business and Economic Development"},{"id":"71891","name":"Health and Medicine"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EP\u0026eacute;ralte C. 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