A Vision-Guided Nasotracheal Intubation Robot

Overview

Nasotracheal intubation is an important step in providing oxygen for patients with respiratory failure or who need general anesthesia. This robot system can achieve unmanned nasotracheal intubation more efficiently and safely.

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Commercialisation opportunities
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Problem addressed

Respiratory infectious diseases remain a global concern. Intubation is an important step in providing oxygen to patients, but medical staff may be exposed to direct sources of infection. This intubation robot can reduce the risk of infection for medical staff and bring more clinical advantages.

Innovation
  • This system can realize unmanned nasotracheal intubation procedures and adapt to medical devices under existing standards without using special instruments.
  • It use a multi-feeder interactive stick-slip coordination control method to ensure efficiency.
  • It use a multi-modal control method to ensure safety.
Key impact
  • Under the guidance of intelligent navigation, the robotic system can improve the success rate of first-time intubation, increase the safety of the operation, and reduce the risk of complications.
  • This system can reduce the workload of medical staff, allowing doctors to free up time to focus on more important surgeries and other medical care needs.
  • This system adapts to medical devices under existing standards without using special instruments.
Award
  • Silver Medal at the 48th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva
Application
  • The basic application is to achieve the unmanned nasotracheal intubation procedure.
  • Its application scenarios could expand to orotracheal intubation and Tracheostomy.
  • It could be used for general medical endoscope automation and autonomous catheter procedures.
  • It could go beyond the medical application, to industry endoscope automation, like engine and pipeline inspection.

Patent

  • US provisional patent application: 63303270
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

Founded in 1963, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is a forward-looking comprehensive research university with a global vision and a mission to combine tradition with modernity, and to bring together China and the West. CUHK teachers and students hail from all around the world. Four Nobel laureates are associated with the university, and it is the only tertiary institution in Hong Kong with recipients of the Nobel Prize, Turing Award, Fields Medal and Veblen Prize sitting as faculty in residence. CUHK graduates are connected worldwide through an extensive alumni network. CUHK undertakes a wide range of research programmes in many subject areas, and strives to provide scope for all academic staff to undertake consultancy and collaborative projects with industry. 

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