Make healthcare safer by preventing accidentally retained surgical items

防止意外保留手术物品，使医疗保健更安全

• 批准号: 10033555
• 金额: $ 30.83万
• 依托单位: EUREKA INVENTIONS LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10033555
• 关键词: Make; healthcare; safer; preventing; accidentally

Surgery is the mainstay of treatment in many health conditions such as cancer and chronic diseases and childbirth brings joy. Every year in the UK, there are around 12 million operations and 750,000 maternity events. Around 1 in 12 people require surgery or go through childbirth each year in the UK.One of the risks of childbirth or surgery is the possibility that foreign objects may be accidentally left inside. This should simply not happen in this day and age. Surgical swabs are the most common 'retained foreign object', which is also the most common procedural 'never event', a severe clinical incident that is entirely preventable. Other retained items such as needles and instruments are rare. There is good data that these events are under-reported globally due to the implications and litigation, since they are indefensible.Retained swabs can cause extreme harm to patients, such as reoperations, severe infections, damage to organs, death. They can also cause cancer due to chronic irritation. The direct costs due to this problem to the NHS amount to around £2 billion annually.The childbirth and surgical environment can be complex and unpredictable, and data shows that 1 in 11 procedures have counting errors.There is a need for a low-cost medical device to create a robust system to prevent accidental retention. We have developed a docking device that allows users to monitor swabs before, during, and after a procedure, including a method to measure blood loss. This simple, cost-e?ective solution is designed to make it impossible to leave a swab behind. It will help staff deliver care more effectivelyEureka's vision is to make childbirth and surgery safer. This grant will allow product development with patient and public involvement as well as real-world testing.

手术是许多健康状况（例如癌症和慢性病）的主要治疗方法，并且分娩带来欢乐。英国每年约有 1,200 万例手术和 75 万例产科活动。在英国，每年大约有十二分之一的人需要手术或经历分娩。分娩或手术的风险之一是异物可能会意外留在体内。在当今时代，这种情况根本不应该发生。手术拭子是最常见的“残留异物”，也是最常见的手术“绝不会发生的事件”，这是一种完全可以预防的严重临床事件。其他保留的物品，例如针和仪器，很少见。有充分的数据表明，由于影响和诉讼，这些事件在全球范围内没有得到充分报告，因为它们是站不住脚的。保留的拭子可能会对患者造成极大的伤害，例如再次手术、严重感染、器官损伤、死亡。由于慢性刺激，它们还可能导致癌症。由于这个问题给 NHS 造成的直接成本每年约为 20 亿英镑。分娩和手术环境可能复杂且不可预测，数据显示十分之一的手术存在计数错误。需要一种低成本的医疗设备来创建一个强大的系统来防止意外保留。我们开发了一种对接设备，允许用户在手术前、手术中和手术后监测拭子，包括测量失血量的方法。这种简单、经济高效的解决方案旨在使拭子不可能留下。它将帮助工作人员更有效地提供护理。尤里卡的愿景是让分娩和手术更加安全。这笔赠款将允许患者和公众参与的产品开发以及实际测试。