Colonoscope Force Monitor

结肠镜力监测仪

• 批准号: 6834116
• 负责人: Armen Sarvazyan
• 金额: $ 8.02万
• 依托单位: ARTANN LABORATORIES, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-08-01 至 2005-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6834116
• 关键词: bioengineering /biomedical engineering; bioimaging /biomedical imaging; biomedical equipment development; biomedical equipment safety; biophysics; clinical biomedical equipment; endoscopy; gastrointestinal imaging /visualization; injury prevention; medical complication; monitoring device; phantom model; portable biomedical equipment

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Several million screening, diagnostic and therapeutic colonoscopies are performed each year in the U.S. hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers. The application of force to the colon and its anatomic attachments can be painful and excessive force can lead to perforation. There is significant variation in the forces applied and the reduction in this variation in technique and the characterization of effective, less forceful insertion methods will lead to more uniform training, improved continuing education and safer colonoscopy with less anesthesia. The long-term goal of this project is to develop a Colonoscopy Force Monitor (CFM), a handheld force measuring attachment mounted on the colonoscope tube. This device is designed to be easy to use, inexpensive to manufacture and result in less painful and safer colonoscopies. The objectives of Phase of this project are to built and test the CFM prototype, to demonstrate that CFM has the potential to improve the quality of colonoscopy by training unskilled operators, to correctly and safely conduct colonoscopy and to improve the skill level of experienced colonoscopists. We will demonstrate feasibility with a prototype CFM on an existing colon phantom model. Significant commercial opportunity exists to provide an effective, low-cost method to define best practices in colonoscopy and to implement these practices as part of training, ongoing education and quality assurance.

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