Diseño de un dispositivo biomédico para reducir los efectos causados por la asfixia perinatal y encefalopatía hipóxica isquémica

Abstract

The purpose of the technical project is mainly focused on designing a biomedical device that reduces the effects produced by perinatal asphyxia and hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy by introducing the selective or controlled therapeutic hypothermia, representing an innovation in current medical practice for newborns due to its highly promising results since it has the potential to significantly reduce the consequences of lack of oxygen, thus preventing the development of neurological damage associated with these pathologies. To achieve this objective, the methodology focuses on research that includes the collection of medical evidence that supports the therapy to be implemented, analytical data, manuals, current technical data sheets of medical devices to obtain as a final result a design of a prototype composed of three subsystems: the first developed to keep the field where the newborn will be, sealed and sterile (subsystem one: isolated environment), the second in charge of maintaining the temperature of the newborn's body in a stable range (subsystem two: thermoregulation) and the last in charge of carrying out the process of selective cooling of the brain (subsystem three: therapeutic hypothermia). The advantages of this design are presented with their respective recommendations in case it is desired to adapt to other projects for purposes, allowing its implementation to be able to modernize current therapies, improving the well-being of the beneficiaries.