About the Project

Overview

My project is an “Automated Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Machine”.

It is a device used in ambulances and in emergency rooms to deliver adjustable and consistent chest compressions to the patient in order to preserve blood flow to the brain to prevent neurological damages and to let paramedics and physicians focus on the resuscitation process.

The Problem

In patients suffering with sudden cardiac arrest, cardiopulmonary resuscitation “CPR” is used to sustain blood circulation to maintain blood flow to the brain and heart to prevent neurological damage and to limit tissue damage to the heart.

Manual CPR is exhausting especially when it is needed to be performed over a long period and it is considered a burden on the healthcare personnelles as they need to focus on other measures to save the patient’s life.

The Solution

Why I Chose this Project

This project isn't intended for clinical application. I chose to make this project to discover how can digital fabrication be used to research new methods to be applied to the field of biomedical engineering.

At a later stage I will try to add new features to the device so that it can be used in advanced life support.

About Me

My name is Muhamad A. Ahmad

I am a medical school graduate who lives in Cairo

I've been a member of Fab Lab Egypt team for a year now and now I am the head of IT department there.

I went on a trip to the United States as a part of the International Visitors Leadership Program conducted by the Department of State; the trip theme was about Makers. This was as a part of a group of Egyptians who are interested in making and education

Why I applied to Fab Academy

I have a goal to create open source medical devices as I believe this will help a lot of problems facing health care nowadays.

I believe that making is the way to go to realize this goal for a non-engineer like myself and I also believe that I will add a new perspective to the way medical devices are built.