Students develop mousetrap IV drip to tackle dehydration in developing world

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In the most economically excluded regions of the world about 1.5 million children die of dehydration every year. When patients get to hospital for IV therapy, there may be not enough staff to monitor the drip, and the child may die from receiving the wrong amount of fluid, which is also potentially fatal in cases of over-hydration. In order to help health care workers in those places, engineering students at Rice University have developed a prototype of a technically simple yet ingenuous IV drip system that adds an element of automation to the process. .. Continue Reading Students develop mousetrap IV drip to tackle dehydration in developing world

Section: Health and Wellbeing

Tags: Autonomous, Mechanical engineering, Rice University

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