For emergency physicians like Neal Sikka, MD, necessity isn’t just the mother of invention — it’s a regular colleague on every shift.
“We’re always looking at how we treat patients, what tools we have and how they can be improved,” says Sikka, a professor of emergency medicine at the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS). That instinct — to question, refine and reimagine — drives his efforts to co-develop a suite of medical devices aimed at solving persistent clinical problems, from hard-to-place IV lines to stubborn nosebleeds...