MEDICAL DEVICES
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Designer, Engineer
August 2020
Design Engineering
Jarel Gandhi
This page contains several projects that I did within a couple ophthalmology research groups at the mayo clinic. My work on these projects has led to one patent and a first author article.
Sterile Packaging for New Surgical Instrument
I was asked to make a sterile packaging system to store and ship a new sub-retinal implant while submersed in a nutrient rich liquid. The image on the left shows three iterations of the packaging solution ending in the final injection moldable solution.
The final concept shown on the right all allows for the surgeon to open the packaging and equip the sterilized device without touching it. This solution utilizes an off the shelf vial to contain the nutrients rich solution.
Sterile Packaging for New Surgical Instrument
The final concept shown on the right all allows for the surgeon to open the packaging and equip the sterilized device without touching it. This solution utilizes an off the shelf vial to contain the nutrients rich solution.
Surgical Instrument Incision Plug
When doing eye surgery to implant or remove large objects, large incisions need to be made. The fluid inside of the eye leaks out of these incisions and requires a lot of fluid to be flowed back into the eye to maintain its pressure. I designed two different plugs that can be attached to the shaft of the surgical instrument to plug the incision and maintain the intraocular pressure.
Well Plate Sealing Accessory
In order to do several tests on a single piece of the implant scaffold material, I was asked to make an attachment that isolated sections of the scaffold sheet with a watertight seal. I made two versions of this device, one for use in a standard 6 well plate as seen on the left (the current way they were making the gels), and one for a new plate that I designed to get more tests out of a single sheet as seen on the right.
This page contains several projects that I did within a couple ophthalmology research groups at the mayo clinic. My work on these projects has led to one patent and a first author article.
Sterile Packaging for New Surgical Instrument
I was asked to make a sterile packaging system to store and ship a new sub-retinal implant while submersed in a nutrient rich liquid. The image on the left shows three iterations of the packaging solution ending in the final injection moldable solution.
The final concept shown on the right all allows for the surgeon to open the packaging and equip the sterilized device without touching it. This solution utilizes an off the shelf vial to contain the nutrients rich solution.
Sterile Packaging for New Surgical Instrument
The final concept shown on the right all allows for the surgeon to open the packaging and equip the sterilized device without touching it. This solution utilizes an off the shelf vial to contain the nutrients rich solution.
Surgical Instrument Incision Plug
When doing eye surgery to implant or remove large objects, large incisions need to be made. The fluid inside of the eye leaks out of these incisions and requires a lot of fluid to be flowed back into the eye to maintain its pressure. I designed two different plugs that can be attached to the shaft of the surgical instrument to plug the incision and maintain the intraocular pressure.
Well Plate Sealing Accessory
In order to do several tests on a single piece of the implant scaffold material, I was asked to make an attachment that isolated sections of the scaffold sheet with a watertight seal. I made two versions of this device, one for use in a standard 6 well plate as seen on the left (the current way they were making the gels), and one for a new plate that I designed to get more tests out of a single sheet as seen on the right.