BUMP: A Novel Atropine Pump for patients with Crashing Bradycardia via Continuous BPM Monitoring

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Authors

Aarush Kandukoori¹ , Ethan Gracias¹

1. Poolesville High School

Conference / event

Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, February 2024 (Washington DC, United States)

Poster summary

Crashing bradycardia is a condition in which a patient’s heart rate rapidly falls that can lead to severe health problems and even death. To address this issue we developed a novel, invasive, wearable beta-blocker pump for patients using Arduino components including a peristaltic pump and heart rate monitor with crashing bradycardia to pump in Atropine at the right dose – allowing the patient ample time to drive to a hospital and receive professional treatment. In this experiment we measured the accuracy of the pump at various recorded BPMs by calculating the expected vs actual Atropine dispensed. The pump has an accuracy of 92.77% from the data collected

Keywords

Computational Biology, Bradycardia, Medical Device, Atropine

Research areas

Bioinformatics and Genomics, Computer and Information Science

References

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Funding

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Competing interests

No competing interests were disclosed.

Data availability statement

The datasets generated during and / or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

Creative Commons license

Copyright © 2024 Kandukoori et al. This is an open access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.