Frugal and biomedical engineering for low-resource settings - Engineering Design - Healthcare Technologies

适用于资源匮乏环境的节俭生物医学工程 - 工程设计 - 医疗保健技术

• 批准号: 2871829
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Warwick
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2871829
• 关键词: Frugal; biomedical; engineering; low; resource

The medical device market is continuously growing, at higher rates than the related fields of pharmacological and biotechnologies. In 10 years, 2010-2019, the number of Medtech patents granted each year by the European Patent Office doubled. Currently, over 85% of the world MD market share is owned by upper middle- and high-income countries (US, Europe, China, Japan, and Canada), with the US and Europe accounting for 70%. These countries set de facto standards that cannot be taken for granted in low-resource settings (LRSs). When MDs designed following these standards, i.e., adequate for high-resource settings, are used in LRSs, their safety and effectiveness is hindered, because the operating context of the device is not guaranteed. Therefore, patients and users' safety can be seriously compromised. In addition to this, as of now, the medical device industry is lagging behind others (e.g., automotive) in terms of sustainability and its impact on the environment and life on land.This project will build on previously created frameworks for the assessment of medical locations in LRSs as well as the design of medical devices resilient to these settings. It will aim to further investigate how a contextualised and frugal engineering approach, along with mHealth, eHealth, 3D printing and protocycling can be used to overcome some of the major challenges. The project will start off by expanding already existing frugal medical device concepts, such as a smartphone app for screening for diabetic neuropathies, to bring them to higher readiness levels. The project also has room for further case studies that can be proposed by or discussed with the candidate. Finally, this project will also be looking at how the medical device sector could be made more sustainable also with a frugal engineering approach

医疗器械市场正在持续增长，其增长率高于药理学和生物技术的相关领域。在2010年至2019年的10年间，欧洲专利局每年授予的医疗技术专利数量翻了一番。目前，世界MD市场份额的85%以上由中上收入和高收入国家（美国，欧洲，中国，日本和加拿大）拥有，其中美国和欧洲占70%。这些国家制定了事实上的标准，在低资源环境中不能被视为理所当然。当MD按照这些标准设计时，即，足够用于高资源环境的LRS，其安全性和有效性受到阻碍，因为设备的操作环境得不到保证。因此，患者和用户的安全可能会受到严重影响。除此之外，截至目前，医疗器械行业落后于其他行业（例如，该项目将建立在先前创建的用于评估LRS中医疗地点的框架以及对这些环境具有弹性的医疗设备的设计的基础上。它的目的是进一步研究如何使用情境化和节俭的工程方法，沿着mHealth，eHealth，3D打印和protocycling来克服一些主要挑战。该项目将从扩展现有的节俭医疗设备概念开始，例如用于筛查糖尿病神经病变的智能手机应用程序，以使它们达到更高的准备水平。该项目还为候选人提出或与候选人讨论的进一步案例研究提供了空间。最后，该项目还将研究如何通过节俭的工程方法使医疗器械行业更具可持续性