Cadaveric Testing Yields Initial Human Organ Validation for GT Capstone Expo Winners' Minimally Invasive Treatment for Cardiac Arrest

There are approximately 292,000 cases of in-hospital cardiac arrest every year for which the survival rate is less than 24 percent. Resuscitative efforts and supporting technologies are ineffective, slow, fatiguing, traumatic and expensive.

As their Fall 2020 Capstone Project, a group of students from the Georgia Tech Schools of Biomedical, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering brought forth a minimally invasive treatment technology for cardiac arrest via access to the pericardium and subsequent delivery of internal compressions. The challenge was brought forth by an unmet clinical need in critical care via Dr. Alexander Prewitt, MD, an emergency care physician with Emory University Hospital.

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