The elderly members of the community are the most at risk of falling. A number of complications can result from a fall, such as bone fracture or breaking. However, a potentially preventable complication associated with this event is serious skin abrasions- which is currently an unmet clinical need. These wounds can often be detrimental to the patient and potentially even fatal. The cost for the patient is also extremely high- approximately 10 000 (operation and 5 day hospital stay). Due to...

Intravenous therapy is a critical aspect of treatment for many in hospital patients, where individuals range from children to elderly, and mobile to immobile. Dripstands are currently employed in a number of clinical environments to deliver a variety of therapies, but are associated with a number of inadequacies. These stands are extremely cumbersome, and disliked by the majority of users. The dripstands are difficult to manoeuvre, cold to touch, and unstable; generally resulting in reduce...