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Affordable adrenaline auto-injector designed

8th June 2018

By: Anine Kilian

Contributing Editor Online

     

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Biomedical engineers from the Medical Devices Lab at the University of Cape Town (UCT) have developed an affordable, reloadable adrenaline auto-injector called the ZibiPen.

The injector will provide vials of adrenaline for a fraction of the current cost of adrenaline auto- injectors for people with life-threatening allergies.

“Adrenaline auto-injectors on the market can be expensive, expire within 18 months and can only be used once,” UCT allergy division head Professor Mike Levin said in a statement.

Current devices on the market are unintuitive and are based on the size of an average male, which could pose problems for children, women and the obese, he added.

He added that the ZibiPen could be customised for any patient, with needle length and dose calculated by clinicians and set by pharmacists.

“One of the main challenges was developing a small device that could exert a force of around 200 newtons about 20 km. But the team managed to develop an effective patent-pending spring-based system configuration,” he noted.

Edited by Chanel de Bruyn
Creamer Media Online Managing Editor

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