Integrated Surgical Plate Trial Packaging for Faster Retrieval
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems for surgical plate trials are separately packaged, leading to potential damage, mixing of trial sizes during transportation, and difficulty in retrieving various sizes during surgery, increasing surgical time and infection risk.
Innovation Solution
A packaging system comprising a container and a packaging element that integrates multiple surgical trial plates, allowing them to be packaged together, ensuring easy access and reducing the risk of damage and mixing, thereby simplifying the surgical process.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple plate trials are separately packaged, then each trial is individually protected, but the trials can be damaged, mixed during transportation, and are difficult to retrieve during surgery
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple separately packaged plate trials are merged into a single integrated packaging system. The packaging element consolidates multiple trials of different sizes into one unified container with individual compartments, allowing all trials to be retrieved together as a set rather than searching through separate packages during surgery.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated packaging element is segmented into multiple distinct compartments or sections, each designed to hold a specific plate trial. This segmentation maintains individual protection for each trial while organizing them within a single packaging unit, preventing mixing and facilitating easy identification and retrieval of the correct trial size.
2Ease of manufacture
If multiple plate trials are separately packaged, then packaging is simple for each individual trial, but transportation and storage become complex and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The packaging system merges multiple individual trial packages into one integrated unit. Instead of handling multiple separate packages during transportation and storage, the surgeon receives a single packaging element containing all necessary trials, reducing the time needed to locate and prepare trials during the surgical procedure.
3Reliability
If plate trials are separately packaged, then each package can be sterilized independently, but the risk of contamination and infection increases during surgery
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple trials are packaged together in a single sterile environment within the integrated packaging element. This unified approach maintains sterility across all trials simultaneously, reducing the number of times packaging is opened and closed, and minimizing exposure to contamination risks compared to handling multiple separate packages.
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AI summary
A packaging system includes a packaging container and a packaging element. The packaging container include a first half having a base surface and an outer wall defining an inset receiving area, a second half sized and configured to couple to the first half in a locking relationship, and a coupling element extending from the base surface of the first half. The packaging element includes a central coupling body defining an opening sized and configured to receive the coupling element of the packaging container therethrough and a plurality of secondary coupling elements each coupled to an outer perimeter of the central coupling body. A plurality of surgical elements are each coupled to one of the plurality of secondary coupling elements.