Cardiovascular Impedance System Restoration
Reassembled and evaluated a dormant cardiovascular research system used to study systemic vascular impedance—a mathematically derived measure of resistance to pulsatile blood flow calculated from tonometry and volumetric flow waveforms. The original equipment, previously used in research at UW–Madison, had been unused and nonfunctional for several years.
My role involved performing a full technical audit of the instrumentation: identifying functional and nonfunctional components, cataloguing missing or incomplete parts, and determining which devices could be restored or repurposed for future hemodynamics research. This required extensive troubleshooting, documentation, and rapid acquisition of domain knowledge in impedance analysis, tonometry, and cardiovascular mechanics.
Delivered a comprehensive inventory and recommendations report to the principal investigator, enabling the lab to reinitiate impedance measurements in healthy subjects and plan future research directions.
