earwax build is an unpleasant fact of life for many people who go far to clean the ears sometimes. Now - with Q-tips, the physicians reported patients with pins, forks and construction nails earwax digging. (Ouch!)
But is that all that the accumulation of spicy bite and poor earwax. It is part of the reason why 231,000 people have their ears cleaned professionally every week in the United - States
it may be another solution now, go through the doctor: A earwax hull cleaning.
Seattle Biomedical Engineering Aadil Diwan is regularly one of those people fighting earwax. Like many other Americans, it affects earwax - a collection of hard wax, which can cause pain, hearing loss and other problems. It may happen, but it is increasingly common for people to accumulate all sorts of things in the ears.
Therefore, after years of doctor visits, covered sofa - why not invent something to make easier and more effective ear cleaning?
He teamed up with his brother - businessman Sahil sofa technology - and doctoral found in engineering at the University of Arizona safkan : a beginning - of Seattle in the development of a device that can clean the ears of a patient automatically just 35 seconds.
Here's how it works. A nozzle having a body mixture of hot water and hydrogen peroxide in the ear canal of the patient spray dissolves wax and auszuzuspülen. The nozzle water and wax in the device is also avoid messy spills away.
Based in Seattle, won safkan first prize and an investment of $ 145,000 on Wednesday Seattle Angel Conference. Price is the first external funding for the commissioning and the start of his round seeds.
Sahil Diwan said the device, called the Joint safkan, a big improvement over the current way is the affected earwax is processed.
At this point, the process is very low technology: the patient looks into a bucket while a doctor or nurse a huge metal syringe uses water in the ear until the wax to pump out.
It is not only unpleasant and uncomfortable for everyone, but it is also a bad deal, sofa GeekWire said.
(Safkan photo)
"The doctors and providers are losing money every time they do at this time of this process and it is simply due to the labor costs -. Work "in - he said. "With our system, it is actually profitable."
While safkan set is designed is used by earwax, there, s no reason that a doctor could not use to clean the routine ear it, Diwan said.
But unfortunately only for physicians and other health care provider - at least in the foreseeable future.
Sofa, the angel funds of the association said, help to speed up the start of production - until now, all the prototypes and first models of the device were created with 3D printers.
"This money will help us to send to recognize our first batch of products physicians," Diwan said.
It will also help businesses FDA clinical trial safkan set, a prerequisite for low-level devices like to accelerate this.
The price of the device was not found, but the company expects that the cleaning device is cerumen approved on sale for healthcare Additionally January 2018 and testing is planned, safkan packages to sell water / hydrogen peroxide mixture and the device disposable nozzle tips enters , a recurring revenue model for society.
Safkan was founded in 2016 and currently employs seven employees, many of them engineers who worked with Aadil Diwan to develop the device. It is headquartered in Seattle, with some engineers, based in Tucson, Arizona.
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