Autonomous Device for Reversing Opioid Overdoses
Channel: Purdue Engineering
Date: 2019-07-24

Overdose happens when opioids bind to receptors in the brain that regulate breathing, causing a person to hypoventilate and die. According the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, approximately 130 people in the U.S. die every day from opioid-related drug overdoses.

A Purdue University team of engineers has built a wearable device designed to detect when a person’s respiration rate decreases to a certain level – converted from electrocardiography (EKG) signals – and then release naloxone, which blocks the opioid from binding to brain receptors.

Full Story:  https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2019/Q3/device-could-automatically-deliver-drug-to-reverse-opioid-overdose.html

Featured Purdue Engineers 
Hyowon (Hugh) Lee, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Jongcheon Lim,  Graduate Student,  Biomedical Engineering

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