Project Goal:

Create device to stabilize patient’s lung after suffering a tension pneumothorax Current treatments involve chest tubes that are prone to clotting and infection Can be used in non-sterile environment Can be used in transit and at the hospital Field and Hospital Versions of PAD

Danny Baldo Jr., Horacio Estabridis, Vinson Tran, Kelsey Fung, Thanh Chung, Anthony Pham

Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine

Francis Duhay: Edwards Lifesciences