Each winner of the “Make Your Medical Device Pitch for Kids!” competition received $25,000 and the chance to join the National Capital Consortium for Pediatric Device Innovation’s new accelerator program. The event was sponsored by the FDA-funded consortium, which is led by Children’s National’s Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation and the University of Maryland’s engineering school.
The winning companies and their devices are:
- AlgometRx (Washington, D.C.): a test for earlier detection and monitoring of neonatal abstinence syndrome related to opioid withdrawal.
- Epitel (Salt Lake City): a low-cost, disposable EEG machine to improve real-time monitoring of hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy at community hospitals.
- Novonate (South San Francisco): a device to secure and protect umbilical catheter insertion sites, preventing infection.
- PyrAmes (Cupertino, Calif.): a noninvasive, wireless device for continuous blood pressure monitoring.
- Raydiant Oximetry (Mountain View, Calif.): technology to improve detection of fetal distress during labor and delivery, reducing unnecessary cesarean deliveries and metabolic acidosis in newborns.
- Rhaeos (Evanston, Ill.): a wearable device for noninvasive monitoring of ventricular shunt function in hydrocephalus patients.
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