Resus:station, a redesign of the standard hospital resuscitation trolley, is a collaboration between the Royal College of Art Helen Hamlyn Centre, Imperial College with St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, and the National Patient Safety Agency. It won the Overall Award in Anaesthesia and Critical Care and was shortlisted for Best National Health Innovation Award at this year’s Medical Futures Innovation Awards.
The award accolade is early recognition for the Patient Safety research group led by Professor Roger Coleman within the Helen Hamlyn Centre, and his design team comprising Jonathan West and Sally Halls of RCA Industrial Design Engineering (see above), and Senior Research Fellow Ed Matthews. Judges included top clinicians, healthcare advisors, and CEOs of major medical, banking and investment companies. The black-tie awards night was attended by 800 people from the healthcare industry, and compered by Joanna Lumley and Rory Bremner.
Resus:station aims to affect the outcome of some 43,000 resuscitations per year of hospital patients suffering cardiac or respiratory arrest. In simulations, its design has improved the emergency team’s efficiency, and it uses advanced touch-screen software to guide, monitor and record their actions, enabling improved patient care. The Helen Hamlyn Trust initiated the project with a special grant.
The Medical Futures Innnovation Award will allow ’real-life’ clinical trials, starting in October at St Mary’s Hospital, to be expanded to include other hospital trusts, speeding up data-acquisition and eventual commercial launch.
