Press Release
CST Platform Circular Stapler by Lane Foo Wins the A' Design Award in Medical Devices and Medical Equipment Design
Lane Foo acknowledged for medical devices and medical equipment design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ CST Platform Circular Stapler by Lane Foo, designed for Touchstone, has been granted the A' Design Award in the Medical Devices and Medical Equipment Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the A' Design Award
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
About CST Platform Circular Stapler
CST Platform is a circular stapler designed for digestive surgery. Circular staplers join tissue and restore the continuity of the alimentary canal after part of an organ is removed. The internal supporting structure of the housing was removed to create a barrier-free head, which reduces staple malformation caused by the piston effect. The enlarged tubular casing allows more tissue to be resected in a single step. An automatic safety lock engages only when the instrument is ready to fire, and a clear bell tone confirms that firing is complete.
About Lane Foo
Design can establish the link between engineering technology and user demends. To create professional, safe and high-quality medical devices to serve surgeons, give them more choices and benefit more patients.
Award Record
Lane Foo is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
About the A' Medical Devices and Medical Equipment Design Award
The A' Medical Product Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good medical product designs by best brands and manufacturers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to medical product designers, medical equipment manufacturers, biomedical engineers and medical device brands from all countries. Entries typically include stethoscopes, wheelchairs, defibrillators, MRI machines, surgical instruments and prosthetics. Awarded medical product designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/medical-product
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/93518
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/93518
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!93518
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/152994
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.touchstone.hk
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- CST Platform Circular Stapler
- Function
- Circular Stapler
- Category
- Medical Devices and Medical Equipment Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Health
- Colors
- Steel Blue, Dark Slate Gray, Silver, Light Gray and Gainsboro
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Touchstone
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Lane Foo
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #93518
Credits
- Team
- Designer：Lane Foo, and Engineer：Terry Lin, Alex Guo, Chris Chen, Jackel Ding, Tom Liu
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The most important thing that surgeons can focus on their patients and the life-saving procedures. Medical devices can help surgeons achieve their goals. CST platform is an advanced circular stapler platform. A build-in barrier-free structure helps to solve the problem of malformation which caused by the piston effect. Engineer removed the problem maker—internal supporting structure, increased the head volume, to get flat and even tissue condition. This will ensure the tissue won’t milk out from the head part of circular stapler while it is fired. Safety lock of a circular stapler plays an important role in the surgery.
- Inspiration
- Surgical staples for internal use are medical devices used to deliver compatible staples to internal tissues during surgery. In 1978, the first circular stapler was invented, mainly used in gastrointestinal, gynecological, and thoracic surgery. More than 15 million surgical procedures were done with staplers in 2018 with an increasing rate of 7.2% year by year. For more than 40 years, no breakthrough development of circular staplers’ structure and performance. Problems such as the limited volume of the tubular casing and poor consistency of staple formation have plagued surgeons and manufacturers.
- Research
- To provide excellent products, engineers had analyzed the main technical indicators such as the stress analysis of the core components, staple formation, etc. While the instrument is being closed, the head part has to bear up to 90kgf force to compress the tissue. During the firing, it needs another 48kgf force to cut through the washer and 50kgf force to ensure proper staple formation. We have reinforced the structure of the stressed components and selected heavy strength materials to bear the huge force. The yaw of the anvil is a very important index, which directly affects whether the staple leg can be aligned with the forming notch or not.
- Challenge
- Engineer should be balanced by many factors, such as process, material, cost, etc. Engineering validation brings us the great challenges to remove the support structure of stapler housing, the rigidity of the tubular casing is reduced to cause the yaw of the anvil. Engineers work on design, materials, and processes to resolve this contradiction. Firstly, improve the design. After removing the support structure, engineers insert a stainless steel sleeve in the anti-expansion tube to reduce the gap between the anvil shaft and the anti-expansion tube, increase the precision and coaxial. Secondly, search for higher strength and biosafety materials to meet new design demands.
- Realization and Technology
- We care about all aspects of product experience. We hope that during the firing, the surgeon can not only feel but also hear the feedback from the device. A clear and distinctive bell tone can be heard after firing, which reminds surgeon to avoid re-squeeze the firing trigger. It increases the safety level of an operation.
- Operation and Interaction
- CST platform is used in digestive surgery. It has the same indication as the conventional circular stapler. The main difference is product performance and user experience. The most clinical benefit of CST platform is that with barrier-free, the occurrence of surgical leakage caused by staple malformation, which is the severe postoperative complication, will decrease remarkably. Thanks to the enlarged volume of the tubular casing, now with one CST stapler,the surgeon is able to resect the amount of tissue in which conventionally needs two. This helps to reduce the cost of medical treatment for patients.
- Project Duration and Location
- Nearly eleven years in development, the project began in January 2008 and released in Suzhou, Milano, New York, and Sydney in August 2018.
- Specifications
- Product dimensions differs in different models. General dimension, height: 501mm, width: 186mm, depth: 34.5mm. Weight: 470g. Firing force: nearly 200N e.g. CST29: the diameter of the stapler housing is 29mm, the volume of tubular casing is 13.2 cubic millimeter, the area of opening windows: 1332 square millimeter
- Keywords
- Medical device, Surgery, Surgical stapler, Circular stapler, Anastomosis, Barrier-Free, Piston effect, Leverage-Control, Automatic safety lock
