A femoral hematoma is not a typical problem for a high schooler. In fact, identifying and treating such a serious bruise can give even health care professionals trouble.
Nor is a high schooler typically focused on how to keep a camera steady for filming while using a wheelchair.
But these challenges were on the minds of high school students who took part in the Enabling Engineering internship program this summer at Northeastern University.
“You took our ideas and what you presented was what we hoped, what we imagined — in fact, it was even better than we hoped,” Deirdre Hamilton, a nurse at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, told the team of students who developed a training tool to correctly identify and treat femoral hematomas.
Enabling Engineering is a Northeastern student-led group that designs and builds devices to empower…
