Product design, development and manufacturing consultancy, Wideblue, will be displaying multiple medical device innovations at MD&M West this month.
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Medical devices Wideblue will be showing are listed in more detail below.
CRiL N-Tidal C
This device is designed to assess the health of a patient’s lungs by measuring CO2 output - a function which is typically carried out in hospitals using a large capnometer machine.
This product was created because Wide Blue were commissioned by Cambridge Respiratory Innovations (CRiL) to develop a low-cost, hand-held personal capnometer which could be used both for clinical research and by patients in their own homes.
Wide Blue has designed and developed a prototype which uses infra-red optical technology to measure CO2 levels. The device was designed to be easy to use, highly accurate and able to transmit wirelessly gathered patient data to a remote server.
The device is currently undergoing clinical trials and design for manufacture.
Softcell Medical
This medical device was developed in partnership with Softcell Medical.
The product is able to measure and display a patient’s pH levels during surgery, and as a result highlight any potential restriction of blood flow to vital organs. The pH system is intended for the assessment of patients who have sustained injuries or have developed disease processes that make them susceptible to ischaemia or localised tissue death that in its severe form can result in the development of compartment syndrome or generalised tissue death.
The first 15 prototypes have been manufactured and the device is about to start clinical trials.
Calcivis
Calcivis is a new dental luminescence imaging camera which is currently in production.
The Calcivis imaging device is designed to provide a detailed image of the tooth after delivering an application of Calcivis photoprotein. The hand-held medical device is initiated via a “one touch” computer controlled process. There is also a specialised sensor integrated into the device which is able to immediately detect the resulting luminescence (light flash). Therefore, in less than one second bespoke software presents a chair side demineralisation “hot-spot” image map to clinicians, enabling more informed and efficient dialogue with patients.
Following designing and manufacturing a number of advanced prototypes of the device for clinical trials, Wideblue has worked with Calcivis to develop a full commercial product which is currently in production in the UK.
Peek Retina
Peek were keen to produce a low cost ophthalmoscope and make it available to a wide range of clinicians throughout the world, therefore Peek asked Wideblue to improve a prototype mobile phone based ophthalmoscope and get the product ready for sale.
Wideblue initially carried out optical design of the product using Zemax software to optimise the product’s optical performance. Early-stage hand built models were made to validate the results.
Wideblue carried out design for manufacture, injection mould tooling and supported start up manufacturing in the UK.
MD&M West
Wideblue managing director, Russell Overend, commented: “We have been working on various cutting edge medical products which we are delighted to showcase at MD&M West. Most of the projects we work on are one of a kind often using ground-breaking technologies especially in the field of opto-electronics. We are pleased to be working in partnership with some of the world’s leading medical device companies on designing and developing products which will make a real difference to patient health.”
