Lost in Transit: Implications and Insights for Making Medical Task Trainer Prototypes with an Open Source Hardware Paradigm. (May 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ege, D. N.; Auflem, M.; Steinert, M.
• Is Part Of: Proceedings of the Design Society. Volume 2(2022)
• Page Start: 1253
• Page End: 1262
• Publication Date: 2022-05
• Subjects: open source design -- prototyping -- medical task trainer -- healthcare design -- prototype testing; Industrial design -- Congresses; Engineering design -- Congresses; 620.0042
• DOI: 10.1017/pds.2022.127
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2633-7762

Abstract

Abstract: This paper presents an open-source novel intravenous cannulation task trainer developed during the Covid- 19 pandemic for unsupervised clinical skill practice. Multiple user errors were uncovered when observing 13 registered nurses using the task trainer during a two-hour unsupervised skill training session. These insights raise the question of how OSH needs to share more than just device descriptions and assembly instructions- as designs are being shared only in its current state of an ongoing project, sharing insights, user errors and test results should be encouraged and prioritized.