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...

Current minimally invasive stentgrafts are unsuited to patients with suprarenal abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA), as they prohibit renal perfusion. An adjunctive stent which can be deployed through the fenestrations of an AAA stentgraft will maintain its position in vivo and enable blood flow to the kidneys. This device should be designed with currently approved fenestrated AAA stentgrafts to enable a quick path to market.

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...