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Real-Time Coagulopathy Measurement
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Development Team
Trenton Rochelle Justin Hemphill Ziming Qi
SLIDE 3 Overview
- Coagulopathy of Trauma – A hypo-coagulable state
caused by trauma, resulting in increased bleeding or clotting, heightened resuscitation requirements, and a 4x increased rate of mortality.
- Car accidents, shootings, bad falls...
- To minimize mortality, coagulopathy must be assessed
and addressed nearest to the time of injury and monitored throughout the course of care.
SLIDE 4 Problem with Current Solutions
- Measurements can only be taken in a hospital/lab setting
- Can take up to an hour
- Seconds matter when treating a critically injured person
SLIDE 5 Aptitude’s Solution
- Proprietary molecule that binds to receptors in a person’s
- blood. Electrochemical signals produced by the molecular
binding give coagulopathy measurement.
- Developed a handheld sensor analogous to a blood
glucose meter
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Location Hospital/Lab Portable Time ~ 1 hour < 2 minutes Size Stationary Machines Handheld User Doctor/Lab Technician First Responder
Current Solution Aptitude’s Solution
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Alpha Prototype
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Our New System
SLIDE 9 Main Product Requirements
- Handheld and field-ready during an emergency
- Blood within the sensor needs to be stable at various goal
temperatures (15-60°C) ○ Needed for different tests + future development
SLIDE 10 Goals
- Temperature control
- Integrate modules into a PCB
- Provide future feature expandability
- Device charging in-use
- Redesign enclosure
- Quick and reliable readings
SLIDE 11 Design Limitations
- No bluetooth
- Long battery life
- Handheld
- Work while charging
- Work with Android
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Simplified Block Diagram
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Core Modules
SLIDE 14 Central Processor
- SAMD21 Cortex-M0+
- Low power 32-bit
- 48MHz Clock
- SPI/UART/USB + GPIO + PWM
SLIDE 15 Emstat Pico
- Highly compact potentiostat used for
electrochemical measurements
- Provides coagulopathy measurement
SLIDE 16 Power System
Battery:
- PKCELL Li-Po rechargeable battery
- 3.7V
- 2500mAh
- 50mm x 50mm x 7mm
- Use: Supply system power
Battery Controller:
- PowerBoost 1000C
- Boosts output to 5V
- Battery level reading
- Safely charges Li-Po Battery from USB
- Charge + Use simultaneously.
SLIDE 17 Temperature Control
Peltier Module:
- Heats + Cools the blood chip
- 25mm x 12mm x 3mm
- 6.0-9.0V operating voltage
- 800mA draw
- Voltage changes as temperature changes
- H-Bridge device alternates current
SLIDE 18 Temperature Readings
Surface Mount Thermistor (PT100):
- Responsive thermal equilibrium
- Thin Film
Digital Amplifier (MAX31865):
- Read temperature every 100ms
- 0.02℃ resolution
- Connected to Thermistor
Thermistor atop Peltier Side View
SLIDE 19 Peltier Control Function
- 1. Input: Temperature (℃)
- 1. Output: PWM Duty Cycle (0-100%)
- 1. Using two PID controller objects
i. One for heating
SLIDE 20 Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID)
- Control loop mechanism employs feedback
- Continuously calculates an error value e(t) as the difference
between a desired setpoint y(t) and a measured process variable r(t)
- Applies a correction based on proportional, integral, and
derivative terms
SLIDE 21 PID Tuning - Kp, Ki, Kd
Target Amplitude Time
SLIDE 22 Heating PID - No Enclosure Results
Converges to +10℃ in around 7-8 seconds!
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Cooling (more difficult)
Working against ambient temperature Created an enclosure for thermal isolation Heat from bottom side diffuses into colder side High temperature gradient reduces efficiency Attached heat sinks } ΔT = temperature gradient
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Enclosure Design
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Enclosure Design
SLIDE 26 Heating Improvement
25°C to 37°C in 4 seconds (50%) 25°C to 60°C in 20 seconds
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Putting It All Together
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SLIDE 30 PCB Revision 1
- 2-Layer
- Single-sided
- 45mm x 75mm
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SLIDE 34 PCB Revision 2
- 4-Layer
- Double-sided
- 45mm x 63mm (12mm shorter)
- Blood reading system included
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Top Bottom
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SLIDE 38 Android Application
- Microprocessor-Android communication while also
charging
- Microprocessor data can be changed in-app with JSON
messages ○
{"mode":"set","modeType":"isTempControlling","modeData":[1]}
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Developer Settings
SLIDE 40 Scanning App
- Scan Start
- Status Info
- Temperature
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Acknowledgements
Scott Ferguson, PhD, CEO and Founder, Aptitude Inc. Radhey Patel, Electronics Engineer, Aptitude Inc. Yoga Isukapalli, Professor and Capstone Chair, UCSB ECE. Aditya Wadaskar, Teaching Assistant, UCSB ECE. Kyle Douglas, Teaching Assistant, UCSB ECE.