避免设备墓地:严格的过程,以改善在低资源医院环境中有效,负担得起和可用的新生儿设备的识别和采购
Elizabeth Asma1, Megan Heenan2, George Banda3
1Rice University Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies, Houston, TX, USA. Elizabeth.asma@rice.edu.
BMC pediatrics
|November 16, 2023
概括
一个新的基于证据的过程成功地确定了在资源较少的医院中用于新生儿护理的坚固,可用的医疗设备. 这提高了设备的选择和正常运行时间,减少了脆弱环境中的新生儿死亡风险.
科学领域:
- 全球健康 全球健康
- 生物医学工程 生物医学工程
- 医疗器械技术 医疗器械技术
背景情况:
- 每年有数以百万计的新生儿死于可以预防的原因,特别是在非洲.
- 扩大医院护理的规模需要适合小型和生病新生儿的适当技术.
- 由于环境和后勤方面的挑战,现有的设备在资源较低的环境中经常失败.
研究的目的:
- 开发和实施基于证据的技术审查流程.
- 为了确定适合新生儿护理的医疗设备在低资源的医院.
- 确保设备是有效的,负担得起的,坚固的,易于使用.
主要方法:
- 一个八步审查过程,包括目标产品配置文件 (TPP) 定义,桌面研究和实验室/环境/可用性测试.
- 在肯尼亚,马拉维,尼日利亚和坦桑尼亚的新生儿病房购买,安装和监控设备.
- 根据TPP和性能标准对271个设备进行评估.
主要成果:
- 只有16.6%的被考虑的设备最初满足了TPP;23种产品通过了所有评估.
- 可用性测试显示,一些设备的故障率很高 (37.8%).
- 安装了2457台设备,实现了99%的平均正常运行时间,故障最小.
结论:
- 基于证据的设备选择流程可以提高为低资源环境采购适当的新生儿护理技术.
- 对制造商的反可以改善医疗器械的质量,以应对具有挑战性的环境.
- 这个过程可以适应在各种低资源环境中选择医疗器械.
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