Design student Rhian Bache’s final-year project at London’s Brunel University was selected for the prestigious Made in Brunel Exhibition on the South Bank.
The recent graduate, 22, realised that with an increasingly elderly population often taking many different medicines, many of which are only available in liquid form, self-administering accurate doses using a needle-less syringe was a real challenge for many patients.
Rhian said: “Self-loading and administrating medications with existing oral syringes is extremely difficult to do accurately, especially for those suffering from poor co-ordination, or hand weakness.
“Or even if you are a tired parent with a crying baby in the middle of the night!
“There are two problems, you can’t easily gauge what dose is going in and have to turn the bottle upside-down to fill the syringe."
Rhian’s prototype gadget solves both and can be used by left-handed and right-handed patients and is now going into further development with hospital doctors and nurses.
