During surgery for animals, unlike in the human market, there is no trained anesthesiologist. In fact, many assistants in the AH market are not clinically trained. For example, one of the most common questions we receive about our AH vitals monitor is that it is beeping and how to shut off the alarms. However, the reason it is alarming is that the animal is in distress and she needed to address the situation, not simply shut off the alarm.

The objective of this project is to research the complications that occur and link the vitals sign monitor to the anesthesia machine in order to have more automated controls and make the process of anesthesia administering and monitoring of the animal more fool proof. However, this will require a lot more research before this is ready for execution.

Project Mentor:

Engineering Mentor: Asad Abu-Tarif, PhD MBA, VP Research and Development, Applications Research and Technology (ART) Group, Midmark Corporation AAbutarif@midmark.com

Physician Mentor: To Be Announced once team is assigned

Team:

Member Last Name Member First Name Lead? Email (@uci.edu)
Gori Michela gorim
Morales Ivette M. Yes immorale
Orozco Jacob Erik jacobeo
Trinh Xin Xin xtrinh
Vis Alec Christopher visa
Course Department: 
BME
Term(s): 
Fall
Academic Year: 
2019-2020