Wearable Biometric Monitoring and Auto-Injection Device for Overdose Intervention
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Solution Overview
Problem
Individuals suffering from opioid overdose often lack the ability to administer opioid antagonists like naloxone correctly and timely due to impaired motor control and isolation, leading to increased risk of fatal overdose.
Innovation Solution
A wearable delivery device that monitors biometric data, alerts medical professionals, and auto-injects a medicament such as naloxone when overdose symptoms are detected, ensuring continuous administration until deactivated by a medical professional.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If naloxone is administered manually by the individual during overdose, then the treatment can be provided, but the individual cannot administer it correctly and timely due to impaired motor control and isolation
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service through automated detection and administration. The monitoring module continuously tracks biometric data without external assistance, and when overdose is detected, the administration module automatically delivers the medicament without requiring manual intervention from the individual
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical administration with an automated system. The monitoring module detects overdose conditions through biometric sensing, and the administration module uses a drive mechanism to automatically inject the medicament, substituting the impaired manual mechanical action with an automated electromechanical system
2Reliability
If the device continuously monitors biometric data and auto-injects medicament, then survival chances increase, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple functions into a single integrated device. The housing contains both the monitoring module with sensing capabilities and the administration module with medicament delivery mechanisms, combining detection, decision-making, and treatment functions in one unified system worn by the individual
Solution Approach 2:
The device performs multiple functions: continuous biometric monitoring, overdose detection through algorithmic analysis, automatic medicament administration, and alerting emergency services. This multi-functional approach consolidates what would otherwise require separate devices into a single comprehensive system
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AI summary
The present system provides a delivery device that may monitor an individual's biometric data. If the biometric data fall below a certain threshold, the delivery device will trigger an alert to medical professionals, indicating the individual's location, as well as alerting friends or other contacts of the individual. In addition, if medical condition is detected, such as an overdose, the delivery device will administer a medicament, such as an opioid antagonist, via intramuscular or subcutaneous injection. The delivery device will continue to administer the medicament until disabled by the individual or a medical professional as long as the delivery device continues to be triggered to do so.