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Topic: Center for Medical Innovation

Through the Cords: Helping Patients Catch Their Breath

By Lassonde Staff June 13, 2016March 3, 2020 Leave a comment Startups
Through the Cords breathing tube prototype

When it’s a matter of life or death, it’s important to constantly improve the industry. Which is why, when University of Utah faculty member and anesthesiologist Sean Runnels had an idea for a safer upgrade to breathing tubes and the process of inserting them, it wasn’t difficult to recruit students for his team. He reached […]

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Bench-to-Bedside Grand-Prize Winner Could Prevent Infant Death

By Lassonde Staff April 6, 2016April 6, 2016 1 Comment Press Releases, Startups

Want to verify your baby’s breathing at all times? You’ll need a device with wires, electrodes or other physical attachments to the child, said University of Utah bioengineering student Spencer Madsen. The Ph.D. candidate and new dad — with No. 2 on the way — set out to create a product that allows parents to […]

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