As it can be observed, trauma is nowadays
one of the most troublesome problems in any community and also of the most
important causes of morbidities and mortalities.
Trauma can be defined as a bodily harm to
a vital or non-vital organ during an accident. The main objective of the
medical staff and emergency ward in such cases should be preventing from
mortality or morbidity in the injured person.
To save the injured person’s life is one
of the medical principles that should be observed when encountering such a
person. This can be achieved to a great extent by avoiding unnecessary
transferences of the injured one.
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Trauma occurs by several reasons such as:
1) Car accidents 2) Downfall from height 3) Severe industrial traumas 4) Harms caused by sudden deceleration and
similar reasons that exceed the limited space of this section.
Among the
mentioned cases above, the highest figure of morbidities and mortalities
returns to car accidents, having taken this figure from all of the industrialized
and non-industrialized countries.
Medical staff and
emergency ward play an important role in harm reduction and mortality
reduction. If we intend to deal with the
most important harms caused by trauma, cervical, pectoral, and backbone
traumas of the spinal cord are doubtlessly the most prominent ones.
In severe types
of trauma, harms to spinal column and then to spinal cord are known as the main
complications.
According to the
reports and figures, harms to the spinal cord occur during the following steps:
1) Harms during
accident
2) Harms after
accident
For example
someone who is harmed by a traumatic injury in his/her car and then gets sudden
extensions while rescuing by emergency staff or common people, will have severe
and irrecoverable harms to the spinal column; a technical flaw or an action
that is done for rescuing purpose, may result in rupture or lesion of the
spinal cord and the injured person will lose his/her ordinary life; for example
fails to walk, control the urination and excretion and many other problems.
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Harms to the
backbone spinal column are numerous and any heaving of them may cause
irrecoverable harms some of which include:
1) Fracture
2) Sliding of the spines
on each other because of ligament harms (sub-luxation).
3) Smashing in the form of compression fracture
4) Wedge fracture
5) Torsion
In an injured
person with any of these harms, it is naturally impossible to diagnose the kind
of harm before transporting to hospital and taking accurate examinations and
necessary medical imaging.Therefore the
injured rescuing process, placing on the stretcher, transporting to the
hospital, and displacements that take place in the meantime are of a high
significance.Because the
above-mentioned harms are out of sight, the injured person will receive an
again trauma during the rescue and transportation stages; this trauma will
cause irrecoverable harms on the vital organs like spinal cord.
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In other words,
transportation of the injured person must be done in a way that no displacement
will be seen from the created state of the injured. When, for instance, the
injured person suffers from any degree of vertebral rotation in the spinal
column, the rotated parts should not be returned to the previous state under
any circumstances; or in case of vertebral flexion, vertebral extension, and
lateral flexion, the injured should not be positioned to upright status.
Observing this principle is practically difficult (if not impossible), since
the injured will be dislocated anyway while transportation and involuntary
harms will be inevitable.
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There is no
suitable and yet practical solution for such these cases all over the world and
sorry to say that the main harm of these technical and practical flaws will
fall directly on the injured person and its irrecoverable damages are for the
injured at first and then for the society and its economic and health system.
By designing the
Protective Spinal Cord device, the undersigned hope to solve this problem in
the best way and offer a worthy help in preventing permanent damages to these
injured ones.
With its
complicated and unique design, this device can not be described in details, but
I can say in short that it is designed so that moves along three axes of X, Y,
and Z and can be fixed at any form imposed on it.
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In other words,
it works as a linear flexible fixative that takes form at any angle and
position and then fixes in that state.
Suppose, for
example, a traumatic person that is unconscious and injured from the spinal
column part, positioned in the state of flexion (leaned forward) and a slight
rotation in spinal column part, laid on the ground, inside the car, or any
other place that does not allow any movement.
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The PSC device
rests flexibly on the current axis of patient’s spinal column; that is it lays
fittingly just like a band on leaning and rotating zones of the spinal column
and fixes in that position using its simple mechanism; the device takes the
injured person’s position so that it will be impossible to move it. Then by
means of the lateral flexible cranks it fastens around the body; these cranks
bend from the two sides of the body and tie together.
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In this manner
one can take the injured easily and without any change in his/her status, carry
on the bed and move him/her simply, no need to change the position.
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The other notable
point that is a fundamental capability of this device is that its parts are not
insulated against radiology rays; this capability makes it possible for PSC device
to remain on the injured body until the finalization of medical imaging. This
device has no domestic or foreign parallel and it is hoped to use it all of the
mobile and non-mobile emergency systems to prevent harms resulted by spinal
column traumas.
My story
I
have been conducting medical research regarding spinal cord injuries for years. The amount that is
needed for our project is more than $300K to manufacture this device. We use
highly expensive and unique material in order to build our spinal protection
system. The Full Mechanical System will be used for protecting
the Spinal Cord, a specially designed device that provides maximum and complete
protection to the spinal cord and vertebral columns for injured patients while
being rescued from accidents and transported by medical teams to hospitals and
medical facilities for urgent treatment. If we do not reach our fund goals to
manufacture this device we would use the rest of fund to create and design a
new medical device. Our goal is to invent unique devices to save people.
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The Full
Mechanical System for Protecting the Spinal Cord (PSC) not only utilizes the
latest and most advanced theories, studies, and practices in the field, but it
also embodies in its design, creation and development important original
research carried out by our team.
PSC differs from
all prior and existing devices for protecting the backs of patients in need of
emergency transportation in significant ways.
Unfortunately, the mechanical spinal cord protection systems currently
available and used in the field all apply some stress and pressure to patients’
spinal cords and have at times caused irreversible damage to patients’ backs.
Our device is the only invention that provides total and complete protection of
patients’ spinal cords and backs while being transported for urgent medical
care.
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Some of the
awards of Full Mechanical Spinal Cord Protection System has won in major
international competitions include the Gold Medal, Diploma and Special Award
(the highest award in the medical field) at the EuroInvent competition in 2011,
Diploma (High Scientific & Technological level) from the Romanian
Scientific Community at the Technopol Moscow Competition (presented at the X
Moscow International Salon of Innovations and Investments) in 2010, Silver
Medal at the Korea Cyber International Genius Inventor Fair & Competition
in South Korea in 2010, Gold Medal in the International Invention, Innovation
and Technology Exhibition in Malaysia in 2011, Leonardo Da Vinci Special
Diploma and Scientific Order in 2011 at
the EuroInvent competition, and Gold Medal at the 110th World Patents Entrance
& International Competitions of Concours Lepine in Paris 2011.
The medical
community has for many years attempted to develop and create a device to reduce
the pressure and stress applied to patient’ backs while being transported to
the hospital. However, the various
inventions that have been created over the years, have failed to significantly
relieve the pressure and stress that patients experience in their backs while
being transported to hospitals.
Given the Full
Mechanical Spinal Cord Protection System’s ability to provide full protection
to individual’s backs and to prevent any harm, displacement, stress and
pressure on the spinal cords and vertebral columns of patients, this invention
is a significant and major contribution to the medical field. Our project’s original and groundbreaking
work in this area will ensure the safety and wellbeing of millions of patients
throughout the world.
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