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Monday, August 18, 2008

EpiCard Wants to Be EpiPen 2.0

Filed under: Medicine , Pediatrics

Intelliject, a Richmond spinoff of the University of Virginia, is a company that is working on a novel device for people with allergies to self administer subcutaneous intramuscular epinephrine. In other words, think of a new generation EpiPen. We saw company videos demonstrating the device, and we liked what we've seen.

In a nutshell, the EpiCard™ is designed to be the smallest epinephrine auto-injector. Once (and if) it becomes commercial, the EpiCard will be the size of a credit card. In addition, the device will be able to provide step-by-step voice instructions to patients on how to use the autoinjector during a life-threatening emergency.

Intelliject...

The Intelliject Story...

Flashback: Student invents handy 'Epi-Card' (Inside UVA May 17-23, 2002)

UPDATE: A rep for the company tells Medgadget that Intelliject is an independent company, and is not a spinoff. Also, please note that EpiCard is designed for intramuscular administration of epinephrine, and not for subcutaneous as we mentioned earlier. We apologize for these mistakes.

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How very exciting! I'm hoping this new design is easy to use and doesn't scare you when the needle-prick occurs.
Austin
http://drughealth.blogspot.com/


Posted by: Austin Lee
on August 18, 2008 06:37 PM GMT

i hope when I have my anaphylactic reaction someone gives me an IM shot of adrenaline and not sub cut.
this card seems a good idea for drugs that are to be given sub cut but adrenaline in a full blown anaphylactic reaction is not one of them


Posted by: addicted to wes
on August 19, 2008 12:46 AM GMT

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