Designing a safe solution to transport intensive care patients

Introduction into the subject: ?Over the last years, more Dutch citizens have been travelling around the world and unfortunately this leads to more Dutch patients in hospitals in far away countries. This results in more requests by Dutch patients to be repatriated (transported back home) by airplane. Some of these patients are intensive care (IC...

The Guardian: A holistic and user-centred design approach to optimise patient transport by airplane

What came before Each year hundreds of patients have to be returned to the Netherlands from all over the world. These medical transports are also referred to as repatriations. Due to the expensive and difficult circumstances of existing medical transport services, an innovative design was required that would enable a secure, flexible and more...

Design of a product for Nurse Call purposes

In hospitals, care homes, nursing homes and other healthcare facilities patients and residents are dependent on the care of the nursing staff. They need to always be able to communicate with a nurse if they need help or when they want something. For these purposes Nurse Call systems and their associated products are used. Currently, patients in...