Medical Design Briefs - November 2022 - 6
2022 Medical Winner:
Less-Invasive Implant
Improves Options for Glaucoma Patients
The 20th annual " Create the Future " Design Contest for engineers,
students, and entrepreneurs worldwide, sponsored by COMSOL,
Inc., and Mouser Electronics, drew nearly 600 innovative product
ideas from engineers and students in countries from around the
world. The Medical category itself received 61 innovative entries
from 17 countries. Analog Devices and Intel were supporting sponsors,
and Zeus sponsored the Medical category. The contest, which
was established in 2002, recognizes and rewards engineering innovations
that benefit humanity, the environment, and the economy.
Winners were selected from the seven categories: Aerospace
& Defense, Automotive/Transportation, Consumer Product Design,
Electronics/Sensors/IoT, Manufacturing/Robotics/Automation, Medical,
and Sustainable Technologies/Future Energy.
In addition to product ideas at the concept or prototype stage,
contestants could submit designs for commercial products introduced
to the market within the last 12 months.
The grand prize winner receives $25,000, while the firstplace
winner in each category receives a Hewlett-Packard workstation
computer.
This article introduces the Medical Category winner and four
Medical Category Honorable Mentions. Congratulations to all who
entered. All of the entries can be seen at http://contest.techbriefs.
com/2022/entries/all.
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Karanjit Kooner
Orlando Auciello
Walter Voit
Yanliang Zhang
University of Texas Southwest Medical Center, Dallas, TX
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laucoma is the second-leading cause of blindness,
affecting 80 million patients globally, including
3 million patients in the United States.
Elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) is an important
risk factor in the pathogenesis and
progression of glaucoma. It is caused by gradual blockage
in the eye's drainage channels that drain the aqueous humor
(AH) from the eye's anterior chamber (AC), resulting
in pressure increase in the AC, optic nerve damage,
and blindness. Currently, a glaucoma drainage device
(GDD) is implanted after medical treatments fail to control
IOP by providing a conduit to drain AH from the AC
to the sub-conjunctival/sub-Tenon space. Unfortunately,
current GDDs have major drawbacks.
Large sizes require lengthy and extensive surgical dissection.
Large volume of AH is released abruptly causing serious
vision threatening complications. Prolonged inflammaMedical
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