A year-long effort, the Bench to Bedside program gives students from across Utah the opportunity to dive into the process of health care innovation, and leverage their skills to bring positive change to how we care for members of our communities.
Culminating in the annual Competition Night, teams showcase their hard work to mentors, judges, health care providers, industry professionals, family, friends, and the public under the dome of the Utah State Capitol Building. Offering a chance to interact with the hundreds of attendees, students present their innovative devices and applications before judges submit final evaluations. Once the final scores are tallied, our awards presentation begins, highlighting the success of the winning teams.
2023 GRAND PRIZE WINNER - SoundPass
In urgent cases of traumatic brain injury, it is critical for neurosurgeons to drain cerebral spinal fluid. They do this by inserting a catheter into a lateral ventricle of the brain. Most of these procedures are performed blindly and result in high morbidity and mortality. SoundPass is an ultrasound imaging-equipped stylet designed to clearly guide providers to their target.
2023 LEGACY GRAND PRIZE WINNER - LaparoVision
LaparoVision from Bloom Surgical empowers robotic laparoscopic surgeons to resolve intraoperative visual disruptions with an in-abdomen, rapid-response scope lens cleaning tool. The device reduces time spent with compromised vision and scope removals, improving patient safety and procedure efficiency.
B2B 2022 - 2023 BY THE NUMBERS
27 COMPETING TEAMS
6 UTAH ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS
93 STUDENT PARTICIPANTS
$82,500 MILESTONE FUNDING AWARDED
11 PATENTS FILED
100+ PROFESSIONAL MENTORS & COMPETITION JUDGES
OcuGuide is an LED-based gaze fixation device that directs the patient’s eye movements and stabilizes fixation during surgery. This noninvasive and risk-free device reduces the need for invasive manipulation of the eye, complex verbal cues, and general anesthesia. By preventing unplanned eye movements during critical parts of eye surgery, the risks and costs of surgical complications are reduced.
LaparoVision from Bloom Surgical empowers robotic laparoscopic surgeons to resolve intraoperative visual disruptions with an in-abdomen, rapid-response scope lens cleaning tool. Our device reduces time spent with compromised vision and scope removals, improving patient safety and procedure efficiency.
A team of healthcare professionals, engineers and an industrial designer spread across Colombia, Venezuela, and the United States created Exocranio. This medical device covers the vulnerable operation site after a decompressive craniectomy while protecting the brain. Comfortable to wear and adaptable to fit a variety of patients and operation sites, Exocranio will improve surgical outcomes and patient care.
VaddiPax is a novel carrying device for left ventricular assist device (LVAD) external components. Our device is an elastic band consisting of several compartments used to store the batteries and controller, that also allows for multiple configurations with varying levels of support.
The ReSense device is designed to help patients rehabilitating after stroke, specifically with hand sensorimotor function. The device aims to retrain the inner cortical map of the hand by providing vibrotactile stimulation at controlled locations. It is intended for use by patients at home or by professionals in rehabilitation facilities. Computer software is used to interface and control the device.
Benefactor is a web-based application that developed in connection with Alaska Legal Services Corporation and the University of Arizona. Benefactor is a portable and flexible technology tool designed to make the first Social Security Disability application as likely to succeed as possible.
The Pegasus Safety Breakaway System elevates the universal utility of common medical tubing by reducing risks to patient safety, hospital liability, and complications inherent in current standard of care.
Nala Diagnostics is working to prevent neonatal Group B streptococcal (GBS) infections through the development of microbiologic screening technology attuned to low-resource settings.
The very first step to effective skincare is protection from harmful ultraviolet radiation overexposure. Through the development of an ultraviolet radiation-detecting wearable sensor that works in parallel with users’ smartphones, individuals will be able to wear the UV Sense device anywhere on their body to stay informed of their sun exposure and understand their limits.
Click the Teams Gallery Box below to expand the page and learn more about each of the teams in this year's Bench to Bedside competition
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All teams from the 2022-2023 Bench to Bedside competition listed alphabetically.
- AVIT
- Benefactor
- Cliq Note
- CordCatch
- Crico-Ops
- EaziStep
- EndoFlo
- Exocranio
- LaparoVision
- Lybb Tech
- Mapigo
- Nala Diagnostics
- NeoVita
- Nocturnal Neuro
- OcuGuide
- Offloading Brace by EaziStep
- On-V
- Pain Drain
- Protean Medical
- Pseudotelepathy
- PVSP Group
- ReSense by TAKTIL
- Sound Pass
- UV Sense
- V.I.I.V. Clamp
- VaddiPax
AVIT
An IV Drip Chamber Alarm for anesthesiologists and clinical care personnel will ensure consistent delivery of intravenous anesthesia and IV fluids, reducing stress in the OR and mitigating risk to the patient.
Team member(s): Ashwin Velraj, Madison Davis, Katee Perez, Jamie Dziurdzik,
Benefactor
Benefactor is a web-based application that developed in connection with Alaska Legal Services Corporation and the University of Arizona. Benefactor is a portable and flexible technology tool designed to make the first Social Security Disability application as likely to succeed as possible.
Team Member(s): Troy McIntire, Michelle Shuman, Sophie Schwabacher, Amber Shepard
Cliq Note
Cliq Note is a sound therapy tool that aims to enhance therapy practice through musical, multi sensory interaction. Designed so that every user has their own personal therapy experience and meaningful recovery tool.
Team member(s): Cassidy Bach, Steven Erb
Cord Catch
Bedside cable management device for medical tubing, cables, and wires in a hospital setting.
Team member(s): Brittney Chen, Januel Gomez-Colon, JB Eyring, Samantha Delamare, Garret Swenson,
Crico-Ops
This device is a portable emergency cricothyroidotomy tool that you can keep on a keychain. Its lightweight nature, sharper needle, and affordability make it the newest and best tool of choice for emergency cricothyroidotomy procedures.
Team member(s): Grace Ojewia
EaziStep
EaziStep is a revolutionary mobility device designed to provide a painless recovery and minimal life disruption for individuals recovering from lower leg injuries. Unlike traditional crutches or knee scooters, EaziStep offers increased mobility, comfort, and convenience, allowing users to live a full life while recovering from their injury.
Team Member(s): Joshua Vanderpool, Thomas Grover
EndoFlo
EndoFlo is a non-invansive ventilation mask for use during upper endoscopy procedures to allow for multiple instruments and access points to a patient simultaneously.
Team member(s): Ruba Alraqibah, Josh Larsen, Anthony Benitez, Jared Zollinger
Exocranio
A team of healthcare professionals, engineers and an industrial designer spread across Colombia, Venezuela, and the United States created Exocranio. This medical device covers the vulnerable operation site after a decompressive craniectomy while protecting the brain. Comfortable to wear and adaptable to fit a variety of patients and operation sites, Exocranio will improve surgical outcomes and patient care.
Team Member(s): Laura Fernandez, Diana Rodriguez, Han Wu, Bennett Graff, Adriene Pavek, Grace Richards
LaparoVision
Bloom Surgical empowers robotic laparoscopic surgeons to resolve intraoperative visual disruptions with an in-abdomen, rapid-response scope lens cleaning tool. Our device reduces time spent with compromised vision and scope removals, improving patient safety and procedure efficiency.
Team member(s): Jacob Sheffield, Ian Esplin
Lybb Tech
The Lybb Tech Guardian Walker is a next-generation low-cost walking aid that can detect imminent falls and automatically apply the walker's brakes to prevent the fall. It does this all while maintaining the usability and portability of a traditional four-wheeled walker.
Team member(s): Carter Lybbert
Mapigo
Anesthesiologists need a better way to monitor oxygen levels while patients are intubated/under anesthesia. We have incorporated pulse-oximeter sensor technology with existing endotracheal tubes.
Team member(s): Gnoulelein Tako
Nala Diagnostics
Nala Diagnostics is working to prevent neonatal Group B streptococcal (GBS) infections through the development of microbiologic screening technology attuned to low-resource settings.
Team Member(s): Hannah Duffy, Emily Stewart, Tanner Frahm, Briana Zak, Patrick Eucalitto
NeoVita
Newborns are the most vulnerable childhood population, and this is exacerbated in low resource settings where vital sign tracking and monitoring is severely limited. To improve newborn health outcomes, our team has created the NeoVita device – a low-cost, portable neonatal scale and vital sign monitor – to provide accurate and reliable health tracking of newborns.
Team member(s): Sam Nelson, Amanda LeMatty, Kaleb Reecy
Nocturnal Neuro
Nearly a third of children from ages 2 to 13 have experienced somnambulism (sleepwalking), with at least 5% experiencing an episode within the last 12 months. The Nocturnal Neuro is a device which detects the signature electrical waves in a child’s brain and patterns in physical movement which may indicate an episode of somnambulism, and then trigger multiple customizable stimuli (such as auditory, tactile, or olfactory) to comfortably wake up the wearer.
Team member(s): Meghna Patel, Joseph Arrington, Shirley Ricks, Krischa Arrington
OcuGuide
OcuGuide is an LED-based gaze fixation device that directs the patient’s eye movements and stabilizes fixation during surgery. This noninvasive and risk-free device reduces the need for invasive manipulation of the eye, complex verbal cues, and general anesthesia. By preventing unplanned eye movements during critical parts of eye surgery, the risks and costs of surgical complications are reduced.
Team Member(s): Joanna Gorka & Adam Gorka
Offloading Brace by EaziStep
Our team has developed an innovative and practical device to address the problem of ankle osteoarthritis (OA). Our device is designed specifically to reduce ankle OA pain and potentially relieve chronic pain for any ankle or foot condition by offloading the weight felt by the foot and ankle by over 50%.
Team Member(s): Joshua Vanderpool, Thomas Grover
ON-V
The ON-V system is meant to replace the current use of dental loupes by snapping onto a dental drill and has three cameras precisely placed to increase the viewing field while projecting the output on a heads-up monitor in front of the dentist. This will reduce short-term and chronic back pain and fatigue which creates a risk to patients.
Team member(s): Jacqueline Huynh, Parker Mason
Pain Drain
A non-pharmaceutical medical device with eight unique pain-reducing modalities. Pain Drain enables the user to select various combinations of stimuli to decrease or eliminate acute and/or chronic pain.
Team member(s): Christopher Christiansen, Clancy Christiansen
Pegasus Safety Breakaway System
Medical line management is an essential but frustrating aspect of the patient standard of care; breakaway safely mechanisms have been largely adopted from aeronautics or mining, which has limited their utility in the medical environment. The novel breakaway mechanism of the Pegasus achieves a superior safety profile with lower manufacturing costs than current commercial solutions.
Team member(s): Luke Son
Protean Medical
Protean Medical provides a simple solution to poor surgical lighting conditions with a sterile, single-use light loaded with features that will improve open surgery outcomes.
Team member(s): Jordan Johnson, Gregory Mayer
Pseudotelepathy
Our project focuses on the idea that people with severe speech disorders need the ability to communicate verbally with those around them.
Team member(s): Nicholas Witham, Colleen Chemerka, Juan Pablo Botero Torres, Tanner Krone
PVSP Group
The Pleurovenous Shunt Pump (PVSP) takes the fluid from the pleural space and drains it into the blood-stream through a major vein.
Team member(s): Troy McIntire, Quinn Hayward, Ryan Jensen, Andrew Makar, Makenzie Fearday, Lukas Whitmore
ReSense by TAKTIL
The ReSense device is designed to help patients rehabilitating after stroke, specifically with hand sensorimotor function. The device aims to retrain the inner cortical map of the hand by providing vibrotactile stimulation at controlled locations. It is intended for use by patients at home or by professionals in rehabilitation facilities. Computer software is used to interface and control the device.
Team Member(s): Kolja Klug, Varun Garg, Erika Petty, Jess Anstee
SoundPass
In urgent cases of traumatic brain injury, it is critical for neurosurgeons to drain cerebral spinal fluid. They do this by inserting a catheter into a lateral ventricle of the brain. Most of these procedures are performed blindly and result in high morbidity and mortality. SoundPass is an ultrasound imaging-equipped stylet designed to clearly guide providers to their target.
Team member(s): Jordan Johnson, Matt Findlay, Kyril Cole, Travis Hotchkiss
UV Sense
The very first step to effective skincare is protection from harmful ultraviolet radiation overexposure. Through the development of an ultraviolet radiation-detecting wearable sensor that works in parallel with users’ smartphones, individuals will be able to wear the UV Sense device anywhere on their body to stay informed of their sun exposure and understand their limits.
Team Member(s): Kristina Schiffman, Lucas Foreman, Marshall Butler, Collin Henderson, Savanna Dodson
V.I.I.V. Clamp
The V.I.I.V. Clamp aims to improve the human experience of medical equipment, addressing the issue of nurses forgetting to release the clamp on secondary IV lines by being a more visually indicative clamp. Lapses or distractions in the workflow of nurses will be overcome by a clamp that recaptures attention if left closed.
Team member(s): Landon Cragun
VaddiPax
VaddiPax is a novel carrying device for left ventricular assist device (LVAD) external components. Our device is an elastic band consisting of several compartments used to store the batteries and controller, that also allows for multiple configurations with varying levels of support.
Team Member(s): Peyton King, Anna Bilic, Breydon Hardy, Collin Clark, Parker McOmber
PHOTOS FROM B2B COMP NIGHT | APRIL 17, 2023
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