Design and Development of Economically Affordable and Clinically Reliable Vein Finder

Introduction

To design a low cost and reliable vein finder to assist and aid phlebotomist, nurses during various vein puncturing procedures like phlebotomy and IV Infusion.

•  To visualize antecubital vein and cephalic vein in forearm and dorsal hand in paediatrics, fat, dark and elderly people.

•  To design multispectral IR illumination using NIR rays at four different wavelengths (740-780nm)

•  To design IR sensitive detector using modified web camera.

•  To integrate IR detector with Raspberry pi and to install driver software to stream the IR Detector.

•  To interface the IR source, IR detector with LCD displays to make it as a portable and reliable device.

•  To do clinical testing on various groups of people including fat, dark, paediatrics and elderly people.

Hardware and Experimental Setup	Results

Achievements

•  The project has been granted a fund of Rs 50,000 by The Institution of Engineers (India).

•  The product has been taken and clinically validated in different age group of patients in multispecialty hospital.

•  The product has been recognised in the industry level in healthcare domain.

•  The paper has been selected and published in the 30th Indian Engineering Congress (Make In India Pathway)proceedings and the ISBN no:978-81-931829-0-1.

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Rajalakshmi Engineering College
Thandalam, Chennai 602105
Email : mohamedyacin@rajalakshmi.edu.in