Category results for: Solving engineering problems with interdisciplinary skill
ICU device for fecal management finds industrial partner
VCU and Skil-Care are commercializing a nurse-invented fecal management device. The wedge-shaped tool improves patient positioning to prevent leaks, skin damage, and infections while streamlining intensive care workflows.
Turning frontline frustration into functional devices
Postdoctoral researcher Casey Grey, Ph.D. bridges engineering and medicine at VCU, developing innovative solutions like a modified bubble CPAP to enhance neonatal brain development and devices to improve patient care in the ICU.
Don’t cringe: Fecal waste prompts a patient-centric innovation from VCU Health nurse
Emma Necessary is working with the College of Engineering and TechTransfer and Ventures to bring her bedside wedge to market.
