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BlueHealer: A Tibial Implant for Limb Salvage in Vascular Disease
- Program: Biomedical Engineering
- Course: EN.580.612 Medical Device Design and Innovation
- Year: 2025
Project Description:
BlueHealer is developing a breakthrough implant to prevent major amputations in patients with advanced Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD), a chronic condition affecting over 12M Americans. Each year, 150,000 patients lose a limb due to the failure of current revascularization procedures, creating a cycle of repeated interventions, artery damage, and inevitable amputation. BlueHealer offers a new solution: an orthopedic implant that harnesses the body’s natural healing response to grow new blood vessels, restore blood flow, heal chronic wounds, and ultimately save limbs. Our device provides a last-resort limb salvage option for late-stage PAD patients, potentially saving hospital systems up to $38.5 billion while preserving patient mobility and independence.
Project Photo:
BlueHealer team pictured together from left to right: Lindsay Lamberti, Jay Tailor, Mitchell Lipke, Santiago Sanchez Renteria, Selena Shirkin.