Noseplug Design Team Members:Stephen Jarrett Michelle Pinson Wen Zhu Advisor: Denis Rowe.
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Noseplug Design
Team Members: Stephen Jarrett Michelle Pinson Wen Zhu
Advisor: Denis Rowe
Objectives
Project Goal: Develop inexpensive, effective nosebleed plug to be used in athletics, specifically high school wrestling
Design Criteria:
• Fit → provide variety of sizes
• Absorbency → use cotton, similar to tampons
• Stop bleeding → vasoconstrictor?
• Easy insertion and removal → shape and tab
• Cheap → simple design, alter tampon design, international production
Schedule
Schedule
Current Work
Decided on specific design Constructed first
prototypes Tapered toward
the front Cotton Thick at the
base
Current Work
One question remains: To vasoconstrictor or
not to vasoconstrictor Oxymetazaline Nasal Jelly Alum Root Powder Styptic Pencil
Current Work cont’
FDA issues Which type do we want
to become Drug delivery device Medical device
Current Work cont’
Manufacturing Issues Cotton Weaving Tab Stability Drug Delivery Pressure
Application Patent Issues
Completed Work
Interviewed wrestlers, ENTs, ATCs, BME professors
Established FDA Contact Picked a Final Design Researched Various
Vasoconstrictors
Future Plans
Testing of prototype Manufacturers Marketing
Acknowledgements
Advisor Denis Rowe, CEO of Arthron Interviews with John Hudson, Reagan
Hall, Michelle Johnson, Christy Henning, Dr. Dale Smith, Dr. Jerry Crook, Dr. Jewell Duncan, Dr. Bryan Davis, Dr. Labadie, Professor Miga, Professor King, Professor Giorgio