A Better Way to Open an Airway

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A team of Ohio State University engineers working with Dr. Hamdy Awad, an anesthesiologist at the Wexner Medical Center and associate professor in the College of Medicine, have developed a robotic intubation device to address difficulty experienced by medical practitioners in performing intubation, a delicate procedure to open a patient’s airway quickly.

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Left to right: Joe West, Dr. Hamdy Awad and Professor Emeritus Bob Bailey with the team
Awad and Mechanical Engineering Professor Emeritus Bob Bailey formed an interdisciplinary team including MAE’s Professor Tony Luscher, who has advised three teams of senior capstone teams working on the device, and Laboratory Supervisor Joe West, who has been instrumental in prototyping and testing.  A group of students from Ohio State’s Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization Institute and its leader, Michael Camp, have provided business guidance.

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