The consultation of the future: A tool to make the communication between patients and specialists more emphatic in the digital world of 2030

In the future, healthcare becomes more challenging to reach and less personal. The workload for specialists is increasing (Rossen, 2018), the current health path for patients is extended and long (van Tongerloo, 2019) and more general practitioners do not want to have their own practice which results in lower accessibility (Smit, 2019). Besides,...

Redesign the Minddistrict platform to increase therapists engagement

Minddistrict (http://www.minddistrict.com) is a Dutch ehealth company that has been founded in 2008. What Minddistrict provides is a secure, flexible and user- friendly ehealth platform with an extensive catalogue of online modules, diaries and questionnaires to help clients with mental issues on their way to positive change. Minddistrict hopes...

Foxpat: Training simulator for Cementless Oxford Partial Knee Replacement

The learning curve of novice surgeons takes about 25 surgeries to be proficient at the knee replacement procedure. So it is not just enough if we design efficient and more ergonomic surgical tools, it is also important to provide a learning platform for them to get better before they operate on a real patient. Although many training simulators...

A game about safety culture: creating awareness among healthcare professionals about culture and behaviour regarding patient safety through serious gaming

The start of this project is a first version of a serious game that was designed by the company MEDD. This is an independent design and consultancy agency for healthcare. They designed this game as part of their ‘Met Elkaar Durven Doen’ toolbox, which they use in trainings and workshops. The Haga Hospital is the co-design partner of the game,...

Non-contaminated uterine microbiome sampling for fertility research

The human microbiome and its relationship to several diseases is a new and evolving field of study. The uterine microbiome can be used to predict the chance of success of natural or assisted pregnancy. Possible contamination of the uterine microbiome during sampling hinders the ability to make conclusions about the possible relation between it...

Design of a new personalized dental implant and its surgical procedure

Dental implants are used to replace missing teeth. Replacing teeth is required, since neighboring teeth can move and reposition in undesired positions if there is an empty space. A dental implant consists of three parts, a dental prosthetic (crown), an abutment and the implant which is fixated in the bone. <br/><br/>Dental implants are placed...

Improving children's experience during blood drawing procedure

This project aims at improving the experience of children during blood drawing procedure at Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona Children’s Hospital.<br/>Blood test is a procedure that creates stress and anxiety for patients, and it can result in a very traumatic experience for children. This brings other issues that make the blood draw more complicated,...

e-AD: enhanced attachment device: A new attachment for trans-humeral amputees between a myoelectric prosthesis and a bone anchored implant system

The goal of Integrum is to improve the life of amputees. They do so by providing the OPRA (Osseointegrated prosthesis for the Rehabilitation of Amputees), bone-anchored implant systems for prosthetic attachment: a prosthesis can be mounted on a percutaneous abutment (‘pin’) coming from the residual limb. One of the latest developments of...

Design for the intraoperative assessment of tissue perfusion

Because of cancer in the colon, parts of this organ might be surgically cut out to eliminate this disease. After removal, the residual parts are connected by means of a suture. A leakage of such connection is a severe complication and potentially life-threatening for the patient and associated with a poor healing of this surgical wound. Adequate...

Design of a fixation technique for periprosthetic femur fractures: Rorabeck type III, incorporating the femoral component of a primary total knee prosthesis

This report is the result of a graduation project at the TU Delft, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering. The project was done in collaboration with the Reinier de Graaf Gasthuis. The implantation of a total knee replacement (TKR) is one of the most successful operations in the field of orthopedic surgery. Unfortunately, in 0.6-2.5% of the...

Design of a minimally invasive spinal cage applicator

The goal of this master thesis is to design an instrument which is able to insert an implant called a spinal cage, designed by M. Ahmadi, between two vertebrae. The spinal cage is of a new hinged, and spring loaded design, requiring a new insertion instrument, since no existing instruments are able to place the implant. The implant is used in a...

Design of a customizable implant for thumb arthroplasty

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative joint disease, i.e. “wear and tear” arthritis. Approximately 1,2 million people were known to have the disease in the year 2015. Although most joints affected by osteoarthritis have a eminent treatment, the treatments for OA in the trapeziometacarpal joint (TMC) aren’t proven superior to one another. Because...