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Progress Report 4/5

Apr. 5, 2019—In the last week, the team has made progress on all aspects of the project.  We have been working on the front end design code and having issues with running the code on an app and Android emulator.  Since this is our first time coding an application we are reaching out to many different sources...

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Progress Report 3/1

Mar. 1, 2019—This past Saturday we finally had the chance to visit an IPF patient. The visit opened our eyes to the real life of a patient on in-home IPF therapy and was an informative experience. From the visit, we updated our requirements for the device and application. The main issues we noticed were inconvenience using the...

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List of References

Nov. 13, 2018—King TE, Flaherty KR, Hollingsworth H, “Approach to the adult with interstitial lung disease: Clinical Evaluation.” Wolters Kluwer, 2017 King TE, Flaherty KR, Hollingsworth H, “Clinical Manifestations and diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.” Wolters Kluwer, 2018 Tarpy SP, Bartolome CR, “Long-Term Oxygen Therapy.” The New England Journal of Medicine, 1995, 333, 710:714 The Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation. “About Pulmonary...

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A Visit to Medical Necessities

Oct. 24, 2018—In order to gather information about the oxygen tanks that we will be improving, we decided to visit Medical Necessities.  They are a medical device equipment company located within Nashville Tennessee.  While we were there, we were able to view an oxygen tank concentrator.  This helped us to brainstorm an attachment mechanism for our device. ...

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Logo Creation

Oct. 23, 2018—When brainstorming ideas for the project, LGEC began brainstorming how they wished the project would be represented.  They decided that a simple way to do this would be to create a logo.  Since LGEC design is currently focused on creating an adaptation to an oxygen tank, they wanted their logo to be simple to resemble...

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