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== Public Policy ==
 
== Public Policy ==

Revision as of 06:17, 10 November 2015

Quell wearable is device designated for treatment of chronic pain. It works on principle of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, which causes release of endogenous opiates affecting pain relief.

QUELL RELIEF
Quell.jpg
Category Therapeutic wearables
Developer NeuroMetrix
Announced Oct 2015
Released Consumers: 2015
Price 249 USD
Weight 62 g
Dimensions 98 x 74 x 11 mm
Controls smartphone
Standalone[1]
https://www.quellrelief.com/product


Main characteristics

A) A therapy pod, B) An electrode array, C) A Band, D) An example of usage on upper calf, place of effect[2]

Purpose

Company & People

Neurometrix is company directed on developing health-care wearable technology with main effort on sleep disorders, chronical pain, and nerve deseases treatment. The company, having a seat in Waltham Massachusetts, was founded in 1996 as a spinoff of the Harvard-MIT partition of Health Sciences and Technology.[3][4]

Currently Neurometrix offers four products in total[5]:

Quell™ - Wearable device for paliative purpose

SENSUS® - Therapy device available on prescription. It is based on TENS technology also for pain relief without any drug usage.

DPNCheck® - Nerve conduction test for evaluating systemic neuropathies such as diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN), its detection and monitoring.

ADVANCE™ System


People in the lead of the company (the complete description is here):

Shai N. Gozani, M.D., Ph.D. - President, Chief Executive Officer and Director

Thomas T. Higgins - Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Frank McGillin - Senior Vice President and General Manager, Consumer

Michael J. MacDonald - Senior Vice President of Commercial Operations

Juan Kong, Ph.D. - Senior Vice President of Research and Intellectual Property


Neurometrix stated also contact persons for media, which is Laura Wagstaff[6], and Thomas T. Higgins as contact person for investor relations[7].

Important Dates

1965 - Melzack and Wall proposed first conceptual model for mechanism which could lead to pain relief

1970s - Developement of TENS (Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation)

Ethical Issues

Health Risks

Official statement about side effects is that there are none[1]. Usage is 100% drug free, with clearance by FDA (Food and Drug Administration) received in 2014.

Enhancement/Therapy/Treatment

Quell wearable device has primarily therapeutical function. It was developed on purpose to palliate chronical pain which basically has origin in these four diseases:

Public & Media Impact and Presentation

Advertising video found right on the Quell product website: <iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/116014236" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>

Public Policy

Food and Drug Administration contains database consisting of three chapters (I. Food and Drug Administration, Department of Healt and Human Services; II. Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of Justice; III. Office of National Drug Control Policy), where each device is sorted and classified according to specific properties. This Database comes actually under the general database called Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (eCFR). It the chapter I, Quell describtion consists of a) identification and b) classification. Quell is kept under regulation number: 882.5890, and it is identified as "A transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulator for pain relief is a device used to apply an electrical current to electrodes on a patient's skin to treat pain"[8] . Further, it is classified with mark "Class II (performance standards)"[9]. The latter category features most of medical devices (FDA stated 43%), including for example wheelchairs of pregnancy test kits[10].

Related Technologies, Project or Scientific Research

References

  1. Shows if the device is a standalone wearable computer or if it needs to be connected to a processing unit to function.
  2. Shai N. Gozani, Science Behind Quell™ Wearable Pain Relief Technology for Treatment of Chronic Pain: https://www.quellrelief.com/files/science-behind-quell.pdf
  3. Neurometrix, Company overview: http://www.neurometrix.com/about-neurometrix/company-overview.html
  4. NeuroMetrix Launches Quell™ Wearable Pain Relief Technology: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150615005489/en/
  5. Neurometrix, Company overview: http://www.neurometrix.com/about-neurometrix/company-overview.html
  6. NeuroMetrix Launches Quell™ Wearable Pain Relief Technology: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150615005489/en/
  7. NeuroMetrix Launches Quell™ Wearable Pain Relief Technology: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150615005489/en/
  8. Code of Federal Regulations, Title 21, Volume 8, 21CFR882.5890 http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfCFR/CFRsearch.cfm?FR=882.5890
  9. Code of Federal Regulations, Title 21, Volume 8, 21CFR882.5890 http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfCFR/CFRsearch.cfm?FR=882.5890
  10. Medical device classification list on: http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/ResourcesforYou/Consumers/ucm142523.htm