Oxygenator Technology Development, Inc. (OTD,Inc.)
5060 Amelia Earhart Dr.
Salt Lake City, Utah 84116
Telephone: (801)350-3635
Fax: (801)350-361
Project:
Neonatal/Infant/Fetal Pump-Oxygenator System (NIFPOX)
| Key Project Personnel |
Role On Project |
JD Mortenson,M.D. |
Principal Investigator |
Robert N. Schaap |
Project Manager, Collaborating Scientist |
| Barry L. Bagley |
Director of Laboratory Services, Collaborating Scientist |
Abstract:
An innovative, technologically advanced small cardio-pulmonary bypass system will be
designed and fabricated to meet the existing and growing needs for a simpler, easier to
use, safer, and more effective apparatus to support neonatal, premature, or fetal subjects
during cardiac surgery. The recognized limitations/disadvantages of currently available
pump-oxygenator systems for operating room support of small, immature heart surgery
patients will be minimized or overcome by specific unique design, materials, and
application modifications of the currently available, obsolete, and suboptimal infant CPB
systems. In addition to designing and fabricating the new device, the proposed Phase I of
this project includes in-vitro engineering bench tests and in-vivo laboratory animal
testing to determine feasibility of the device to meet the identified performance needs
and specifications of the proposed new neonatal CPB system. Successful completion of the
overall project would accomplish a significant breakthrough in CPB technology for support
of neonatal/infant/fetal subjects during cardiac surgery and could be widely used
advantageously in infant cardiac surgery centers, worldwide.
Potential Commercial Applications:
The proposed NIFPOX CPB System could be used in at least 100 neonatal/heart surgery
centers, worldwide, in support of more than 4,000 open heart surgeries of this type
annually. At a cost of $150,000 for the permanent system and $1,500 for disposable parts
per case, the potential market could be approximately $10 Million. |