AWARD YEAR
2019
CATEGORY
Body
GOALS
Good Health & Well-being
KEYWORDS
surgery, treatment, health
COUNTRY
United States of America
DESIGNED BY
Debbie Lin Teodorescu, Sally Miller
WEBSITE
https://www.surgibox.org
SurgiBox
The idea of SurgiBox is to take the operating room and shrink it down to just the patient’s size.
We stepped back from the classic paradigm that safe surgery requires a safe operating room and protection of everyone within it. Instead, we focused on what actually matters: the patient and providers. We redesigned the "safe surgery" concept by shifting the focus of protection to the actual surgical field. Here at SurgiBox, we know that there has to be a simple and inexpensive solution which can be easily incorporated into existing work flows. We have made it our goal to find it. SurgiBox can be used by both emergency surgical teams willing to extend the golden hour and by surgical and ob/gyn teams operating without access to standard surgical facilities. SurgiBox makes surgery safer for patients by reducing intra-operative air/skin contamination of incisions. It also makes surgery safer for providers by reducing provider exposure to bodily fluid splashes and aerosols.