SIMBA Sinus Monitoring for Bacterial infection Assessment

Purpose and goal

GPX Medical is developing a technology that can potentially contribute to improved sinus diagnostics and thereby help in the fight against over-prescribing antibiotics. In the project, the aim was to investigate whether the measured gas volume and oxygen gas concentration in the sinus correlates with bacterial status in acute sinusitis. The project included adapting measuring instruments for sinus measurements, measuring healthy volunteers and conducting a market analysis.

Expected results and effects

The project has delivered several results: An instrument specifically for sinus measurements has been developed. With this instrument, a student from Lunds Tekniska Högskola conducted a study on healthy volunteers, which resulted in your approved Master thesis degree project. Furthermore, we have conducted a market study on the potential for an instrument that can be an objective decision support. Unfortunately, the planned clinical study could not be carried out due to the situation with the pandemic.

Planned approach and implementation

The project followed the layout of the plan in general. During the work, studies were carried out on healthy partly in collaboration with a student who carried out his degree project and partly with internal resources. Adaptation of instruments for sinuses and also development of a dedicated instrument was carried out with mainly internal resources. Market analysis was carried out with internal resources.