Publication in BMJ Innovations

SurgiBox has published the results of their human factors in the prestigious British Medical Journal special edition about social innovations.
Our main findings are stated as below:
What are the new findings

• Parallelised, iterative development of individual elements of a prototype technology may enable frugal as well as highly optimised innovation with increased, ongoing user feedback. However, managing integration risk, such as via stepwise integration, is critical to overall success of the innovation.

• The SurgiField system is able to provide both passive and active barriers against intraoperative contamination during a broad range of surgical procedures, particularly the so-called bellwether procedures that are used internationally to benchmark adequate access to surgical care.

• A modular, surgical site-based enclosure could be made efficient to deploy and take down, ergonomic and compatible with typical surgical field access requirements. This could be implemented with a conveniently sized package similar to large surgical drapes used normally for any major surgical procedure.
  
  
  Check the full paper here: https://innovations.bmj.com/content/early/2022/06/29/bmjinnov-2021-000893.full