Golden Capsule : An IV injection device that can be used in disaster situations without electricity
- Nationality
- South Korea
- Group
- 4Y
Research Prize - Honorable Mention
4Y
About Project
In a disaster rescue site, Golden Capsule can easily observe that someone close to the patient must continue holding the IV packs.
Most of survivors must be prescribed fluids while being transported to a treatment facilities to save the golden time.
There are fatal limitations to use conventional IV systems in disaster sites
First, moving through rubble-filled, mountainous, harsh environment while carrying several intravenous packs is extremely difficult and dangerous that may cause physical injury of rescuers.
Second, it is difficult to achieve over the full-drip rates often required in emergency situations using gravity-based conventional method. However, there have already been many attempts to overcome the limitations of the conventional IV setups, but they were all designed inappropriately for disaster relief sites.
Most of them were too heavy or large, and designed to necessarily require electricity or human manual labor. Since electricity is not available at disaster sites, a new gravity-independent IV system, Golden Capsule, was designed to operate without electricity or human power.