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