Project title: INFLATABLE PLIABLE SPLINTS

Company name : R&D SUPPORT LTD.

TECHNOLOGICAL FIELD
Medical devices

KEY WORDS
Support of Limbs,
Orthopedic Splints, Inflatable Splints

PROJECT SUMMARY
The company is developing pliable, variable-stiffness, inflatable
splints to provide more efficient support in a variety of
emergency and elective situations.
Apart from plaster of Paris and surgical operative fixation, the
efficacy of temporary or definitive support, immobilization, and
pain relief afforded by currently used methods is quite doubtful.
The company's aim is to relieve suffering and enhance healing by
supporting the injured or diseased part using human-friendly
engineering, appropriate to modern concepts of wound and bone
tissue repair.
The inflatable splint family is a new step forwards in Functional
Bracing and offers much wider applications. Its controlled
stiffness or pliability allows movement and function whilst
healing is taking place, in line with contemporary understanding
of healing processes, which require the gentle graded loading and
stretching of the tissues rather than stiff rigid immobilization.
Inflatable splints ease the patient's suffering and facilitate
the work of the doctor and the nurse. They are also excellent for
first aid and transportation of casualties to the hospital and
within the hospital.

TARGET MARKET
* First aid and emergency services;
* Armies;
* Hospitals; emergency room, orthopedic wards, operating
theatres;
* Home use;
* Old age nursing homes;
* Orthopedic surgery clinics;
* Hospital supplies and clinic supplies sales networks.

ENTREPRENEURS
Dr. Daniel Reis - Emeritus Associate
Professor of Orthopedic Surgery Faculty of Medicine, Technion,
Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa.
Ms. Dalia Zucker - B.A., Chief Nurse
(retired), Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Rambam
Medical Center, Haifa.

PROJECT STATUS
The project was launched on January 2005. The system is developed
and fully designed. First clinical trials in orthopedic wards and
in Magen David Adom showed promising results.
There are seven specific medical indications for the first LOWER.

LIMB SPLINTS ready for production and sale:
* Foot and ankle surgery
* Knee injury and surgery
* Fracture of the neck of the femur
* Emergency and accident
* Intensive care
* Ambulance helicopter/rescue
* Contact sports
Additional splints for other body parts and applications are
under development, including: wrist, upper limb, neck, chest, rib
and pelvis.

COOPERATION REQUIRED
Strategic alliance, joint venture capital.
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TEL: 972-4-8470111; FAX: 972-4-8470111; E-MAIL: rds@barak.net.il

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