SUSTAINABLE DESIGN OF MOBILE TRANSILLUMINATOR VEIN FINDER DEVICE

Abstract

around Up to 80% of all patients admitted to hospitals worldwide will have a peripheral intravenous line inserted in the forearm or hand to administer fluids, medications, and blood products. Because PIVC is a common procedure, it is easy to forget the potential for serious complications and safety risks to the patient, as well as to the medical staff. Vein finder devices drastically reduce the amount of time it takes to find a vein. They eliminate wasting needles, syringes, PICC and midline trays on stick after stick. They are non-invasive because all they do is make use of light so you can see veins in subcutaneous tissue. In this article we try to show our work in sustainable design of this type of devices. Our desire is to have Echo-design with low price for Georgian medical market. We use Minimal and simplicity design theory in our structural model to strip down our design to fundamental elements as possible as we can, to reduce material and manufacturing cost of our device.