Diagnostics of newborn children promoted

The Würth Elektronik Rot am See and Fraunhofer institute of reliability and microintegration in Berlin have developed an elastic electronic PCB. It is now ready to go into mass production. The innovation might improve all the diagnostics with newborn children. Our customer Swisstom AG has developed an application in which skin-friendly TWINflex-Stretch is part of a belt. With the belt the heart function and lung function can be measured very softly and carefully, without interventions, directly on the skin of the baby and be observed in dynamic pictures by the doctor. The application of radiologie is not necessary.

The innovation is based on the use of a new base material to the PCB, the polyurethane. An area of application might be above all the medicine area, said Dr. Jan Kostelnik, head of the department research and development Würth Elektronik CBT.

The product is ready to go into mass production. One application is the measuring instrument of the Swiss company Swisstom AG for the supervision of the heart function and lung function. „The electric impedance tomography is a supervision method free of radiation“, mentioned Dr. Jan Kostelnik. The development of the belt was part of the EU-project.

CRADL (Continuous Regional Analysis Device for neonate Lung). Guido Schelling, COO of Swisstom, explains the functionality of the measuring belt: „The Swisstom products are based on the principle of the electric impedance tomography. The electric impedance tomography (EIT) is a picture-giving method for intensive doctors, lung-specialists and physiotherapists which provides real time information about the regional artificial respiration.”

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