TranquiDome™ healing pod integrated with multisensory features

Unmet Need: A comfortable regenerative pod to reduce the stress among blood donors and enhance their blood donation experience.

The United States is experiencing an increasing demand of about 2-3% per year for blood supply, to address medical treatments, natural disasters, and emergencies. Blood centers face a critical need to provide a comfortable blood donor experience that effectively reduces stress and anxiety, particularly for first-time, female, and younger donors. To combat this issue, WSU researchers have developed the TranquiDome™ healing pod incorporating customizable multisensory features, which creates a more pleasant and calming donation environment for donors, ultimately enhancing the stability and reliability of blood supply.   

The Technology: A personalized, user-centric pod integrating anxiety-reducing meditative multisensory features such as nature, lighting, sound.

Researchers at WSU have developed a comfortable and private pod with a unique structural design and feature-rich solution (small, portable, customizable, and meditative) to reduce blood donors' stress and anxiety. Furthermore, this pod with multisensory integration (nature, colored lighting, sound) provides moments of calm to the user in high-stress environments. 

Applications:

• Medical settings including clinics, hospitals, laboratories, dialysis centers, and infusion centers
• Facilities where mental well-being is crucial such as senior living facilities, schools, and universities

Advantages:

• Lightweight, portable, and therapeutic with multisensory design features (nature, lighting, sound)
• Reduce donors' stress and anxiousness in high-stress environments
• Adaptive, responsive, and low-cost design that provides blood banks with flexible and therapeutic blood donation settings (fixed or temporary sites)
• Opportunity for larger populations to donate blood for the community health benefit

Intellectual Property (IP):

U.S. trademark registration has been filed and additional intellectual property is under evaluation.