Objective
This strategic, development, dissemination and training programme, executed right across the European medical devices sector will enable a team of SMEs from the fields of medical coating and needle forming, chemical industry, medical plastics, sterile packaging, electronics and medical devices distribution to enable an upsurge in development of novel high-added value anaesthetic needles that will contribute to displacing imports from the USA and the Far East. As the consortium's production facilities will not suffice to produce the amounts of needle systems the market will demand the technology will be licensed to more SMEs in the above mentioned sectors. This will provide the potential of hundreds of jobs and will improve the quality of treatment of thousands of people undergoing operations, especially the rising number of elderly people to be operated on, as many general anaesthesia procedures can be replaced or supported by regional anaesthesia procedures. Beside the impact on large groups of medical devices SMEs GRANT technology will have direct impact on the European micro system technology and biotechnology sector affecting more than 240 SMEs. This will achieved through be the realization of the technological objectives that will result in new anaesthetic needles that can achieve these operational targets: low energy supply of neuro stimulation needles (below 10% of current systems) first closed circuit bipolar needle system exactly focused needle tip electric field increased haptic navigation safety of needles higher needle stability for reduced risk of needle break for second and third markets: novel electric coating will be directly applicable chip industry enabling direct circuit printing on metal surfaces in MID technology. novel needle forming will be directly applicable to pipetting robots enabling higher flow rates in diagnostic and pharmaceutical procedures. which will in turn lead to the generation of new protectable IPR.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences physical sciences electromagnetism and electronics
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture grains and oilseeds
- natural sciences physical sciences optics microscopy electron microscopy
- engineering and technology materials engineering coating and films
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine anaesthesiology
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Coordinator
AGUADULCE (ALMERIA)
Spain
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