The development of a minimum viable product to facilitate the venipuncture procedure

This report showcases the development of a product to aid the venipuncture procedure. Venipuncture is a procedure where intravenous access is obtained for several purposes. Finding a location and vein to insert the needle is the most important step of this procedure. Nearly 90% of hospitalised patients have to undergo the procedure. Despite...

Supporting the Situational Awareness at the Emergency Department

The Emergency Department (ED) treats patients who have acute conditions and operates twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. At the ED department at the University Medical Centre Utrecht (UMCU), the patients are treated in single rooms. There is not always direct contact between patients and the ED team, because the team is responsible for...

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...

Rehabilitate yourself! Designing a new way of rehabilitation intertwined in daily life.

The most common cause leading to the total hip arthroplasty is the joint disorder osteoarthritis. Due to osteoarthritis pain will increase over time, to the point the disease will influence the quality of the daily life of people. A total hip arthroplasty (THA) will be the solution to relieve the patient of the damaged hip. Among 33.497 patients...

Device to support trauma patients during the rehabilitation of an unstable spinal fracture

Nowadays, when someone is diagnosed with a traumatic unstable spinal fracture, the spine is fixated by surgery and the patient is prescribed to wear a corset brace for 8 to 12 weeks. The two most used corset braces are the lumbar and the thoracic corset brace. These corset braces are highly uncomfortable and prevents the patient from almost...