
Development of a Piezoelectric Intramedullary Nail for Enhanced Fracture HealingAward last edited on: 2/9/2024
Sponsored Program
SBIRAwarding Agency
NIH : NIAMSTotal Award Amount
$275,467Award Phase
1Solicitation Topic Code
846Principal Investigator
Ember KrechCompany Information
Evoke Medical LLC
646 Vermont Street Suite 200
Lawrence, KS 66044
Lawrence, KS 66044
(612) 875-3037 |
evokemedical@gmail.com |
www.evokemedical.co |
Location: Single
Congr. District: 02
County: Douglas
Congr. District: 02
County: Douglas
Phase I
Contract Number: 1R43AR083310-01Start Date: 9/19/2023 Completed: 8/31/2024
Phase I year
2023Phase I Amount
$275,467Public Health Relevance Statement:
PROJECT NARRATIVE Femur fracture fixation is one of the most common orthopedic procedures. Of the 235,000 operable fractures of these longs bones each year in the USA, about five to ten percent will not heal, resulting in nonunions and/or malunions, or will have delayed healing. It has been reported that femoral nonunion has a severe debilitating effect on patient health and wellbeing and is incredibly costly to the healthcare system and society due to the loss of work and quality of life. This problem is especially bad for patients who have risk factors such as diabetes or tobacco use. Tobacco users have been shown to have â¥1.6x greater risk for nonunion than those who do not use tobacco and people with diabetes have been shown to have a â¥6x greater risk for malunion. The poor healing problems with lower extremities are especially problematic for our Wounded Warfighters injured by IED explosions. The Evoke Medical solution will provide a non-pharmacological, cost-effective way to create intramedullary nail implants that will provide bone healing electrical stimulation as well as post-operative healing monitoring from a human's body motion. Our platform technology generates Mechanically Synced Electrical Stimulation (MSES) to help these patients heal better and faster, with each step they take. Utilizing human powered technology, this implant can provide therapeutic bone healing stimulation right to the fracture site and signal to the physician the healing progression for earlier intervention; all without a battery or external brace relying on patient compliance. Our long bone fracture fixation device will give surgeons a way to enhance their patient care, while simultaneously reducing cost of care and improving patient outcomes.
Project Terms:
Animals; Biomechanics; biomechanical; bone; Data Collection; Diabetes Mellitus; diabetes; Diagnosis; Electric Stimulation; Electrical Stimulation; electrostimulation; Electrodes; Explosion; Fatigue; Lack of Energy; Femoral Fractures; femur fracture; Femur; Fracture Fixation; Skeletal Fixation; Fracture; bone fracture; Future; Patient Care; Patient Care Delivery; Goals; Growth; Generalized Growth; Tissue Growth; ontogeny; Health; Healthcare Systems; Health Care Systems; Health Personnel; Health Care Providers; Healthcare Providers; Healthcare worker; health care personnel; health care worker; health provider; health workforce; healthcare personnel; medical personnel; treatment provider; Recording of previous events; History; histories; Human; Modern Man; implantable device; biomedical implant; implant device; indwelling device; Infection; Intramedullary Nailing; Lower Extremity; Lower Limb; Membrum inferius; Marketing; Medical Device; Methods; Military Personnel; Armed Forces Personnel; Military; military population; Motion; Nail plate; Nails; Persons; Osteogenesis; Bone Formation; bone tissue formation; Patients; Personal Satisfaction; well-being; wellbeing; Physicians; Postoperative Period; Post-Operative; Postoperative; Production; Quality of life; QOL; Research; Risk; Risk Factors; Safety; Sheep; Ovine; Ovis; Signal Transduction; Cell Communication and Signaling; Cell Signaling; Intracellular Communication and Signaling; Signal Transduction Systems; Signaling; biological signal transduction; Societies; sound; Spinal Fusion; Spondylosyndeses; Technology; Testing; Time; Titanium; Ti element; X-Ray Computed Tomography; CAT scan; CT X Ray; CT Xray; CT imaging; CT scan; Computed Tomography; Tomodensitometry; X-Ray CAT Scan; X-Ray Computerized Tomography; Xray CAT scan; Xray Computed Tomography; Xray computerized tomography; catscan; computed axial tomography; computer tomography; computerized axial tomography; computerized tomography; non-contrast CT; noncontrast CT; noncontrast computed tomography; Translating; Woman; Work; Generations; measurable outcome; outcome measurement; Outcome Measure; customs; Custom; Electric Resistance; Electrical Resistance; injuries; Injury; improved; Site; Surface; Chronic; Clinical; Phase; Physiologic; Physiological; Medical; Ensure; Evaluation; long bone; Failure; diabetic; Licensing; Early Intervention; Human Figure; Human body; Funding; Therapeutic; Shapes; Mechanics; mechanic; mechanical; Frequencies; Complex; System; Orthopedic Procedures; Tobacco use; Tobacco Consumption; tobacco product use; Operative Surgical Procedures; Operative Procedures; Surgical; Surgical Interventions; Surgical Procedure; surgery; Surgeon; experience; success; Finite Element Analysis; Finite Element Analyses; novel; Patient Self-Report; Self-Report; Devices; Reporting; Modeling; Property; response; miniaturize; miniaturized; Second Look Surgery; Second Look; Surgical Revision; Bone Growth; preventing; prevent; Load Bearing; Weight Bearing; Weight-Bearing state; Patient Compliance; patient adherence; patient cooperation; therapy compliance; therapy cooperation; treatment compliance; compliance behavior; Address; Data; in vivo; Patient-Focused Outcomes; Patient outcome; Patient-Centered Outcomes; patient oriented outcomes; Small Business Innovation Research Grant; SBIR; Small Business Innovation Research; Validation; validations; Pathologic; Monitor; Development; developmental; Output; cost; healing; injured; designing; design; Outcome; cost effective; Population; Implant; implantation; bone wound healing; osseous wound healing; bone healing; prototype; commercialization; patient population; standard of care; verification and validation; mechanical load; care costs; tobacco user; manufacturability; phase 2 evaluation; phase II evaluation; phase II testing; phase 2 testing; Healing abnormal; Healing delayed; Impaired healing; early clinical trial; early phase clinical trial; warfighter; combat related injury; combat injury; bone fracture repair; Fracture Healing; bone fracture healing; fracture repair; design,build,test; manufacture; technology platform; technology system
Phase II
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