https://www.journalofhealthdesign.com/JHD/article/view/57

Abstract

Equipment design and selection can contribute to the success or failure of difficult airway management. The design of medical devices/testing systems completed by multidisciplinary design teams that include healthcare professionals can significantly influence device success or failure. This paper presents an overview of the design tasks used to develop the Shape Retention Testing System (SRTS) for the assessment of bougie introducers. By using a multidisciplinary design team that includes healthcare professionals, critical design tasks such as design criteria generation, product design specification (PDS) generation, focused design approaches, and iterative design processes have ensured essential feedback is collected to influence the SRTS's design and manufacture.