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Overview
The Beatnik Baby Calmer combines noise canceling, pink noise and partial immobilization to comfort children undergoing MRI. Our design philosophy is to give your young patient agency. By donning a line of animal ear attachments, whatever suffering lies ahead, your patients get to choose what animal they want to be that day. They are calmed by their own heartbeat and mindfulness, not sedated or restrained into calmness. This solution both averts the negative public perception of full-body immobilization and reduces the need for anesthesia. Beatnik retails for $50, less than 25% the cost of comparable noise-canceling headphones.
USER NEEDS
8.5 million pediatric MRI are performed annually.
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MRI produces ~110 dB noise during procedure.
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Patient between 5-8 years old
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Not in physiological conditions that require sedation.
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Contraindicated for sedation and anesthesia (i.e. allergies, etc.)
PROBLEM THESIS
Pediatric MRI imaging is highly stressful due to its noisy environment, which causes children to stress, fidget or even cry. In order to restrict children’s movement caused by these factors, the passive full-body immobilization or anesthetic procedures are commonly used, which causes psychological and physiological damage.
VALUE PROPOSITION
No nervous-system damage to patients.
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Psychological comfort instead of trauma.
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Gives the children agency to dictate their MRI experience.
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Save $150 for each.
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