Expert Input
Project development has been clearly advised by at least one outside advisor/mentor and identifies how his/her contributions have been incorporated (P2).
For contacting professionals to have input on our Expo group, we first started off by emailing different doctors and professors that would relate to Fesentience. One neonatologists doctor that had great input on our project was Dr.Grossman, who had worked with NAS to make sure our project was going in the right direction and be accepted into the medical field. He also told us to exclude this project for preterm infants in their early stages, for trying to expand out to regular infants with NAS would be too ambitious for now. With this information we have made the project for Fesentience more direct on one goal.
As we continue to email different professionals to get information and input on our project, Fesentience needed to make sure that this new incubator would allow the infant to grow into a healthy child and making sure the parents would be okay to but their baby into the incubator. In the stages of developing the incubator, it would have a few moving parts to simulate the heart beat and lung expansions in the incubator. A electrical engineer told us in an interview that the amount of moving parts should be at a minimum, so that way the parents can feel safe about putting their child into the incubator.
Fesentience has also gotten input for how ergonomically accepted the incubator will be. Emailing another electrical engineer and doctor to get input to how effective our innovated incubator should be, the doctor raised concern on how long the incubator will be running for in treatment. This kind of treatment would cost money for how long the incubator runs for and the days it’ll take for the treatment to work with the incubator. Fesentience is now designing the incubator to be more effective with protruding sounds of the mother's heartbeat and lungs to allow for a faster treatment for the infant.
By contacting all of these professionals through emails and a few interviews, Fesentience is able to develop the innovated incubator more effectively by making the audio sound like it’s still in the womb, to allow the infant to feel like it’s still in the mother, allowing it to grow into a healthy child. The incubator is also being develop to be more parent friendly to make it easy to convince them that this process is the most effective and safe for the baby to be in, and ergonomically approved to be used in hospitals by finding ways to decrease the treatment time and time the incubator is used as it does cost the hospital to run the incubator for treating the infant.
"I met with two neonatologists from Yale-New Haven Hospital to review our project. One of them, Dr. Grossman, had been recently working specifically with NAS and assured that our project was headed in the right direction and would be widely accepted in the medical field. Dr. Gross wanted us to hone in the focus of our project to exclude preterm infants in its early stages. The majority of the children born with NAS are not preterm and incorporating our project into an isolette, an area in which preterm infants are contained, is too ambitious for now.
The other breakthrough addressed in the interview was the need to simulate the blood-flow sounds in the womb. We planned to simulate breathing and the heartbeat, but had not taken into account the blood flowing around the placenta. We also learned that recent studies prove that material involvement leads to less time in the hospital; however, even in states like West Virginia, they find the mothers reluctant to help. This proves that there is a serious need for our product, even in the United States."
-Tom Nardini, Fesentience PR
As we continue to email different professionals to get information and input on our project, Fesentience needed to make sure that this new incubator would allow the infant to grow into a healthy child and making sure the parents would be okay to but their baby into the incubator. In the stages of developing the incubator, it would have a few moving parts to simulate the heart beat and lung expansions in the incubator. A electrical engineer told us in an interview that the amount of moving parts should be at a minimum, so that way the parents can feel safe about putting their child into the incubator.
Fesentience has also gotten input for how ergonomically accepted the incubator will be. Emailing another electrical engineer and doctor to get input to how effective our innovated incubator should be, the doctor raised concern on how long the incubator will be running for in treatment. This kind of treatment would cost money for how long the incubator runs for and the days it’ll take for the treatment to work with the incubator. Fesentience is now designing the incubator to be more effective with protruding sounds of the mother's heartbeat and lungs to allow for a faster treatment for the infant.
By contacting all of these professionals through emails and a few interviews, Fesentience is able to develop the innovated incubator more effectively by making the audio sound like it’s still in the womb, to allow the infant to feel like it’s still in the mother, allowing it to grow into a healthy child. The incubator is also being develop to be more parent friendly to make it easy to convince them that this process is the most effective and safe for the baby to be in, and ergonomically approved to be used in hospitals by finding ways to decrease the treatment time and time the incubator is used as it does cost the hospital to run the incubator for treating the infant.
"I met with two neonatologists from Yale-New Haven Hospital to review our project. One of them, Dr. Grossman, had been recently working specifically with NAS and assured that our project was headed in the right direction and would be widely accepted in the medical field. Dr. Gross wanted us to hone in the focus of our project to exclude preterm infants in its early stages. The majority of the children born with NAS are not preterm and incorporating our project into an isolette, an area in which preterm infants are contained, is too ambitious for now.
The other breakthrough addressed in the interview was the need to simulate the blood-flow sounds in the womb. We planned to simulate breathing and the heartbeat, but had not taken into account the blood flowing around the placenta. We also learned that recent studies prove that material involvement leads to less time in the hospital; however, even in states like West Virginia, they find the mothers reluctant to help. This proves that there is a serious need for our product, even in the United States."
-Tom Nardini, Fesentience PR