The current generation of medical devices utilized by therapists, surgeons, doctors, and patients themselves definitely looks a lot more different than how they did just a short while ago.
Standard medical devices were often cumbersome, crude, and in certain cases, not user-friendly. Conversely, just like a majority of industries, the need for connected, sleek, and more data-driven technologies are equally widespread in the medical device sector. Moreover, the medical device sector — like most industrial sectors — is also besieged by competition.
Therefore, it is up to the design engineers to recognize the needs of their users and figure out ways to enhance the usability and effectiveness of a system or device, while simultaneously conforming to rigorous regulatory and quality standards.
One thing is for certain: the potential to determine interface pressure — be it at the time of the design process, the development process, or as an integrated feature within the device itself — can give way to new, stimulating opportunities for developments.
Being an established tool, pressure mapping technology is used for capturing real-time interface pressure insights between almost any pair of mating surfaces. Regardless of the intended end user, minimally invasive pressure mapping technology provides the perfect solution to deal with the never-ending demands for better treatment methods and medical devices.
This article demonstrates the utility of pressure mapping technology for physicians, medical device manufacturers, and medical device design engineers to realize higher standards for medical care. These instances will be endorsed by real-world pressure mapping applications.
What is Pressure Mapping?
You would find that the distribution of interface pressure — even between comparatively flat surfaces — is typically uneven within localized areas of peak pressure. Through pressure mapping technology, design engineers will be able to gain a better understanding of areas that may have an impact on both quality and design.
Components of a pressure mapping system
Three components — scanning electronics, sensors, and software — are required by pressure mapping systems to deliver actionable and real-time data in ways that cannot be achieved through other techniques.
- Compressive pressure loads are converted to a change in resistance by the sensor
- The real-time activity of the sensor area is displayed by the software, enabling users to visualize contact area, pressure, force, and timing data
- Analog data from the sensor are collected by the scanning electronics, which then transform these data into a digital signal
There is a Solution for Everyone
A number of challenging demands exist for medical devices that start with the design engineer and end with the doctor and their patient. In this regard, pressure mapping technology has unlimited applications to meet the end-to-end demands of each of these user groups.
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