Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Making in hospitals”.
Who are you what’d? You bring to Maker Faire Rome hi. My name is Annie Young, I’m the co-founder and CEO of maker health and this year to make repair Rome. We brought medical device, prototyping tools. So what are the instruments that people need to create their own? Healthy devices and our team brought a showcase some projects from one of our Hospital makers.
Let’S check those out: okay, the Prototype Health devices, medical devices. One of those platforms is a modular sensor platform called that medic medical education, design and invention thing. So this allows you to pick the sensor that you want plug it into the platform set the threshold using a potentiometer and actually design the output. This is really important when, for example, nurses or doctors want to prototype a medical device with a sensor, they don’t need to dig into IDE or even building their own circuit. They could actually just get started testing their idea right away. Tell me a little bit about amply this sounded really interesting, amply our biochemistry building blocks, so we’ve taken different experiments, synthesis Diagnostics and modularized them so that anybody can design and remix experiments and life science.
What does that mean? That means that on a building block like this component right here, you can actually create a lateral flow test. So all of us know these from the different Cova Diagnostics. We’Ve been seeing yeah you can Multiplex them.
You can actually make your own right here. This is an array, a chemical array where each individual block has a different chemical on that you run a fluid sample. Let me show you a little fluid sample right across from here to here and as the fluid moves from each Swatch of paper, it up and reacts differently. So your end block will actually have the product that you’re trying to create interesting an example that could be insulin good instead of needing huge bio factories. What if we could all make insulin that we need on a piece of paper? Okay, okay! So, what’s this thing over here, so we started out the science behind how this was working, our reactions on pieces of paper and why they were faster than what you would see in a test tube and more more versatile and our next place to explore is a Creative experiments is actually space, so we’ll be taking amply to the International Space Station this spring to really understand, what’s happening, what are the principles, the physics behind the fluid flow and the reactions on paper, and what does that look like in microgravity? That is really cool. So, if somebody’s watching this at home, they want to learn more.
Where can they learn more about the overall not amply, but the overall big? You know medical hacking kind of stuff that you’re doing learn about all the different hospital maker spaces and these tools for creating Health devices and, as amply have its own kind of online presence, or is that part of it amp? We have. We have building a community of people who are interested in learning how to design using chemistry and biology, and that is amplyscience.com. So I understand that you all work with hospitals and you help them get set up and get maker spaces and educate them on ways that they can build and Empower themselves. And I see over here over your shoulder. There are some folks from a hospital I’m gon na go talk to them. Okay, amazing. Thank you so much for telling me about this. I’M going to check out what they brought awesome.
So tell me: who are you and what did you bring to maker pharaoh hi? I’M a nurse in a hospital in the United States, specifically Cedar Rapids, Iowa unit Unity Point and we brought some projects from our maker space that nurses and doctors and other clinicians have made to help us care for our patients. So what kind of projects did you bring today? I brought a lot of things that travel, but I brought things things like educational brain models that we use in the NICU with new parents. Shelley Rocha is a nurse there and she made these. So we can teach parents about how to care for premium babies. We brought a keyboard for a patient who is injured in a skiing accident. One of our Tech stand.
Wolves created this keyboard. Her challenge was that she couldn’t move her fingers, but she could move her hands, and so we made an alternative keyboard with Dan, so she could play her games again. That is very cool, so you kind of already touched on it. I was going to ask what kinds of ways does a hospital actually use a maker space and you’ve mentioned a few that travel well, what are some things that maybe didn’t travel or don’t travel? We translate, but we had one of our flight paramedics. He created a mannequin that can actually comments which sounds strange, but there’s nothing like this on the market and there’s a special technique for emergency professionals that maybe a patient has a bleeding from their throat, while you’re trying to put in an airway and and to practice That technique, it doesn’t exist really where you would have suction and putting in the tube. So we took an old mannequin and we modified it with a drill pump and put some tubes in it and we made it basically basic throw up.
So we can practice this skill, and now this mannequin travels kind of around our state and area, so other clinicians can use it. That is wild. That is so cool. So let’s say somebody’s watching this video. If they wanted to learn more about your maker space and some of the stuff you’re doing, is there like a website or something they can check out? They can check out Unity, Point in Cedar, Rapids and look for Generate that’s the name of our maker space. Awesome.
Thank you so much .