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Health topic Child mortality
Health classification Treatment
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Location India
Status Commercialized
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Problem being addressed

About twelve percent of newborns worldwide need to receive immediate treatment for severe jaundice. This problem can be solved through the use of phototherapy treatment, but in low cost settings existing phototherapy options are often ineffective, costly, difficult to maintain, and improperly used.

Detailed description of the solution

Brilliance is an inexpensive, energy-efficient phototherapy device that provides jaundice treatment. While traditional phototherapy machines use compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs, Brilliance uses light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that last ten times longer. The device has proven to be more effective than traditional devices and costs only $300, a tenth of the cost of other phototherapy devices.

Designed by

  • Designed by: Design Revolution: Design for the Other Ninety Percent
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When and where it was tested/implemented

India

Funding Source

Phoenix Medical Systems

References

Peer-reviewed publication

Other internally generated reports

Brilliance: world-class jaundice treatment for low-resource settings. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://web.archive.org/web/20120927084636/http://www.d-rev.org:80/projects/brilliance.html

Externally generated reports

Cheaper, greener blue light: A better phototherapy device for jaundice treatment. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.engineeringforchange.org/news/2011/02/01/cheaper_greener_blue_light_a_better_phototherapy_device_for_jaundice_treatment.html

IP and copyright

Approval by regulatory bodies or standards boards

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Part of Global Health Medical Device Compendium
SDG SDG03 Good health and well-being, SDG09 Industry innovation and infrastructure
Authors Caroline Soyars
License CC-BY-SA-3.0
Language English (en)
Related 0 subpages, 2 pages link here
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Created November 3, 2013 by Caroline Soyars
Last modified September 28, 2022 by Irene Delgado
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