Silicon 輸液給藥系統 by Sheng-Lun Huang and Chih-Yen Lin

Silicon 輸液給藥系統 by Sheng-Lun Huang and Chih-Yen Lin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 銀獎 in 創意設計 Competition Category.

銀創意· 2021

Silicon 輸液給藥系統

by Sheng-Lun Huang and Chih-Yen Lin

Client: Design Lions

A' Design Award 銀獎 Winner in 創意 Category

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The Design

About Silicon 輸液給藥系統

Silicon係一套半自動輸液給藥系統，用嚟控制靜脈注射藥物嘅流速同注射時間。輸液喉嘅上下兩端分別設有機械計時器同流速閥門，醫護人員毋須心算就可以設定所需嘅滴速同時間。當藥物注射完畢，閥門會自動切換到生理鹽水模式繼續注射，從而減低喺繁忙時段出錯嘅風險。Silicon毋須用電，因此可以服務於醫療資源有限嘅地區。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 銀獎

Silicon 輸液給藥系統是 A' Design Award 銀獎得主，這是授予頂級、華美而令人印象深刻的設計的極為崇高的認可。銀獎得主是極其卓越、極具創造力的作品，展現出其設計師傑出的專業技能、才華與敏銳。預計Silicon 輸液給藥系統將成為一件出色的典範之作，兼具非凡的專業性與深刻的創新性。這件贏得 A' Design Award 銀獎的設計是一項備受矚目、令人欽佩的發明，造福並拓展藝術、科學、設計和技術的界限。Silicon 輸液給藥系統是一件令人羨慕的創作，它喚起渴望，帶來積極的情感，並激發驚嘆與讚嘆。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Silicon is a semi automatic precise infusion solution dosing system, by simple mechanical timer and flow rate valve to improve medical negligence by staff control of flow rate and time of drip medicine, It does not require electricity to replace expensive electronic automatic detection devices, helping resources deprived areas.
Dimensions & Packaging: Width 110mm x Depth 57mm x Height 302mm
Tags: Infusion，Dosing，Automatic，Timing，Control
Production Technology: After completing the dosing, the internal structure of the upper drug timer and the lower timing flow rate valve will drive the aperture flow rate valve to switch to the physiological saline mode, open the physiological saline hole, and continue to inject into the patient body to prevent the medical staff from being busy time negligence caused accidents.
Design Challenge: This is the third generation design. Each generation of design is more in line with the process sequence, ergonomics, and long term cooperation with the medical team for testing. In order to solve the timing problem, we challenged different structures and methods of calculating the flow rate, and needed to confirm that the drug was completely injected without harming the patient, so this is a difficult challenge.
Research: In fact, we interviewed nurses and trainee nurses who are used every day, and learned about the existing intravenous infusion procedures. Therefore, the design and research of the drug timer structure and the timing flow rate valve structure improve the accuracy of intravenous drug injection and make the work of medical staff more convenient and accurate.
Inspiration: Through interviews with medical staff, it was found that some medicines need to be injected for about 30 to 60 minutes and the medical staff must mentally calculate the drip flow rate and monitor the drip status back and forth. Not only does it make the medical staff feel stressed, but in the busy peak hours, it is easy for them to forget about patients medical treatment, causing accidents.
Each year, the health care industry creates billions of pounds of waste on average, with the prevalence of disposable medical materials causing a rapid depletion of health care resources and a lot of environmental pollution.
Project Duration: Silicon development has made great efforts together with medical staff. In a tight year, we realized that this is a daunting challenge and helped medical staff to reduce their hardship.
Operation Flow: I.Close the water inlet hole.
II.Put the medicine bottle in place.
III.Adjust the flow rate valve aperture.
IV.Adjust the flow rate valve timer.
V.Adjust the medicament timer.
VI.Attach a special identification label.
Dosing method:
I.Silicone puncture dosing
II.Automatic dosing stand dosing:By pressing the button of the dosing stand, the control structure can fix the medicine bottle in place. The dosing stand contains a needle that can automatically puncture the medicine bottle to achieve automatic dosing.
Team Members: Designer：Sheng-Lun Huang
Designer：Chih-Yen Lin
Professor：Kai-Chu Li
Medical team：Ciao-Yi Chen
Medical team：Ya-Ling Chen
Medical team：He-Yen Lin
Image Credits: All Images:Designer Sheng-Lun Huang and Chih-Yen Lin