When it comes to little children, medical devices can be a very big problem.
Take Dr. Thomas Tracy, a professor of surgery and pediatrics at Brown University. Virtually every day, Tracy deals with the fallout from the lack of child-sized medical devices.
“It just impacts your life every day, when you turn around and there’s yet another [device] you can’t apply to a kid,” says Tracy, professor of surgery and pediatrics at Brown University and pediatric surgery chief at Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence, R.I.