{"75551":{"#nid":"75551","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Blood Clotting Measurement Device Wins Fall Design Expo","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA\ndevice that determines how a patient\u2019s blood is clotting \u2013 information that could\nhelp doctors prescribe more personalized doses of a popular anti-clotting drug\n\u2013 won first prize at the Fall 2011 Capstone Design Expo.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHeart-Thromb\nwas developed by Siddharth Gurnani, Nicholas\nTurturro, Kelly Hefelfinger, Oscar Martinez and Pranav Gandhi, a team of\nmechanical engineering seniors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s the only [machine] of its kind that mimics actual\nconditions of your heart and can give you a personalized dosage of Plavix,\nwhich is the most common way of treating cardiovascular disease and the third\nmost prescribed drug in the U.S.,\u201d Siddharth Gurnani said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe device could potentially help patients get a customized dose\nof Plavix right away, which is important because \u201ctoo much prescription of\nPlavix can cause internal bleeding and organ failure, and too little can cause\nheart attacks,\u201d Gurnani said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Fall 2011 Capstone Design Expo was held in the Georgia\nTech\u2019s Clough Commons on Dec. 8. At the semester-ending event, held by the\nGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, student teams\nsystematically design, build and report solutions, in the form of prototypes or\ndesigns of prototypes, for a variety of problems submitted from industrial\nsponsors or their own imagination.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESecond\nplace was awarded to ThromBOSSES, developed by seniors Kevin Parsons, Priya\nPatil, Benji Hoover, Daniel Pak, Matthew Lee, Eric Kopfle, Josh DeVane and\nPoornima Vekataraman. This project was a redesign of a sternal retractor used during\nmedian sternotomy surgeries. Median sternotomy provides access to the heart and\nlungs for surgical procedures such as heart transplant, coronary artery bypass\nand corrective surgery for congenital heart defects.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThird\nplace went to Re-Hand, an in-home rehabilitative device for strengthening hand\nmuscles, following injury or a debilitating medical condition. The Re-Hand would\nallow for testing and rehabilitation of individual fingers and accommodates for\ntesting at different wrist positions. It also increases patients\u2019 motivation through\nan interactive game. Students involved with the Re-Hand project include seniors\nDaphne Vincent, Elizabeth LeMar, Kunal McDonal and Alkindi Kibria.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA\ndevice that determines how a patient\u2019s blood is clotting \u2013 information that could\nhelp doctors prescribe more personalized doses of a popular anti-clotting drug\n\u2013 won first prize at the Fall 2011 Capstone Design Expo.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A device that determines how a patient\u2019s blood is clotting, which could help doctors prescribe personalized dosages, won first prize at the Fall 2011 Capstone Design Expo."}],"uid":"27462","created_gmt":"2011-12-23 14:33:31","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:10:53","author":"Liz Klipp","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-12-23T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2011-12-23T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"75521":{"id":"75521","type":"image","title":"Heart-Thromb","body":null,"created":"1449178055","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:35","changed":"1475894688","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:48","alt":"Heart-Thromb","file":{"fid":"193808","name":"thromb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/thromb_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/thromb_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":253130,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/thromb_0.jpg?itok=aogbPTat"}},"75531":{"id":"75531","type":"image","title":"ThrombBOSSES","body":null,"created":"1449178055","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:35","changed":"1475894688","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:48","alt":"ThrombBOSSES","file":{"fid":"193809","name":"thrombbosses.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/thrombbosses_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/thrombbosses_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":272196,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/thrombbosses_0.jpg?itok=Rk8Dn2o7"}},"75541":{"id":"75541","type":"image","title":"Re-Hand","body":null,"created":"1449178055","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:35","changed":"1475894688","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:48","alt":"Re-Hand","file":{"fid":"193810","name":"rehand.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/rehand_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/rehand_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":282105,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/rehand_0.jpg?itok=6F1sJhF0"}}},"media_ids":["75521","75531","75541"],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"16221","name":"Carmen Landord"},{"id":"16201","name":"College of Engineering; George Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering; Capstone Design Expo; Fall 2010; Heart-Thromb"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"999","name":"IAC"},{"id":"851","name":"INTA"},{"id":"1012","name":"International Plan"},{"id":"171147","name":"Sam Steed"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["matt.nagel@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}