PROBLEM Home health providers often have difficulty setting up supplies in unconventional spaces, such as bedrooms and living rooms. SOLUTION In collaboration with University of Southern Maine’s MIST Lab, Jim Byrne, PT, DPT, created a versatile, portable workstation. It is structurally safe while serving as a standing desk, sitting desk, [...]

PROBLEM A barrier to the percutaneous treatment of solid organ intraabdominal tumors during cryoablation or microwave ablation is often the presence of adjacent temperature-sensitive structures. SOLUTION This device allows for effective separation of the treatment zone from these temperature-sensitive structures. VALUE/BENEFIT This approach broadens the patient population amendable to ablation, [...]

PROBLEM At MaineHealth Breast Care and Cancer Supportive Care -Scarborough, over 1,500 procedures annually require biopsy marker placement. Yet existing available markers can be costly and difficult to visualize in dense breast tissue. SOLUTION The team has envisioned a novel design that increases marker visibility and will hopefully create efficiency [...]

PROBLEM Many clinicians perform patient care and documentation on laptops. The laptop cannot be attached to a larger monitor when away from a desk or workstation, causing clinicians to sustain abnormal neck postures to view the screen. These postures can potentially lead to pain and significant injury. SOLUTION This prototype [...]

PROBLEM Gastrostomy tubes (G-tubes) are feeding tubes that are placed surgically through the abdomen directly into the stomach, and are life sustaining for many patients for medications and nutrition. Fortunately many patients' health conditions improve and they no longer require their g-tube. Standard practice is to simply remove the tube [...]

PROBLEM From a patient point of view, a misplaced chest tube is life threatening, painful, and increases expenses. Twenty-five to 50% of tube thoracostomies result in complications (1-3). From a clinician point of view, there is excess resource use to replace improperly placed tubes. Chest tube related complications, such as [...]