IMPROVED EFFICIENCY DURRING OPEN SURGERY
SUCTION CAUTERY TOOL FOR GENERAL SURGERY
The Quick Trigger team at Boston Children’s Hospital identified an opportunity to develop a single-use combined cautery tip and fluid suction device with a retractable fluid suction tip. This device both improves a surgeon’s efficiency during open surgery, and reduces the need for multiple single use devices in the OR.
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Concept Ideation
Being the first of its kind blade and suction combination tool required the industrial design team to explore options for blade and suction tube layout and spacing. The team had to ensure both cutting and suction functions were equal to or better than the two individual predicate devices.
AN INTEGRATED DESIGN APPROACH
Electromechanical
Mockups
The mechanical team in collaboration with the electrical team developed a method for deploying and retracting the suction tube using the negative pressure supplied to the device via the existing suction system currently used in the OR suite.
DESIGN-BUILD-TEST
Prototyping & Testing
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ERGONOMIC AND USABILITY REFINEMENTS
Usability Mockups and Testing
Nonfunctional full scale usability mockups were evaluated by the internal team and surgeons to assess button placement, overall size and grip, and the layout of the cutting blade and suction tube.
Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and the Weitzman Family Chair in Surgical Innovation at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH). He currently serves as the Vice Chair for Clinical Operations in the Department of Surgery, Director of the Pediatric Transplant Center and the Co-Director, Surgical Innovation Fellowship at BCH.
Heung Bae Kim, MD
“The Archimedic team was great to work with throughout the process of developing concepts and prototypes for our device. Their attention to detail was critical to the success
of our project.”
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