AWARD YEAR
2015
CATEGORY
Work
GOALS
Decent Work & Economic Growth
KEYWORDS
treatment space, infection control, sterile field
COUNTRY
United Kingdom
DESIGNED BY
Dr David Swann and Clare Swann, Design Helps Limited
WEBSITE
http://designhelps.co.uk
3D aseptic field
A transformative sterile field that improves clinical work practices in non-hospital settings
This adaptable product improves the clinical work environment and practices of healthcare professionals working in non-hospital settings. Today over 1 billion people now receive planned healthcare away from a building called a hospital. Creating a sound clinical treatment space within patient's homes can be very challenging and requires adept improvisation skills; community nurses working off patient's floors and around curious domestic pets, paramedics delivering emergency first aid in the road, doctors working from cluttered domestic surfaces. Maintaining an aseptic field is a critical aspect of infection control. Uniquely this clever sterile field can transformed into four alternative configurations to meet differing physical conditions and environmental requirements to provide a conventional 2D surface, and if needed, 3D aseptic protection. Thus improving the working conditions of nurses and doctors through a simple and cost effective design solution.