Hamilton’s Cuff Pressure Monitor is a medical device intended to be used alongside ventilators to provide better control of the patient’s tracheal cuff, ultimately reducing the incidence of ventilator associated pneumonia.
The design exploration included several configurations for form factors and input methods; ultimately a vertical configuration with haptic buttons and a digital display was selected.
The design for the Cuff Pressure Monitor focused on the digital display and user IO’s. Importantly, patient status (particularly in emergencies) would need to be instantly communicated to health care providers and controls needed to be optimized to reduced potential errors.
In order to help address the variety of settings that the Intellicuff would be used in, a universal mounting system was also developed to attach to a number of rails and other devices.
In addition to the design exploration around the devices’ physical and digital IO’s, the ID language itself was informed by Hamilton’s other products and its form factor intended to work effectively as both a mounted and hand held device and in a number of settings including emergency transport.