Konstruktion und Konzeption eines Assistentenarbeitsplatzes für die minimalinvasive robotische Chirurgie

Kurzfassung

INTRODUCTION: Although surgeons and their assistants are highly trained experts, the new operating room environment within a minimally invasive robotic Surgery (MIRS) challenges them a lot. Poor lighting conditions, increased amount of technical components and unknown working tasks with the system are just some problems they encounter. As opposed to this, one of the benefits ofMIRS should be reduced costs because of quicker and optimized tasks. Therefore it is necessary to reconsider the operating room’s setup regarding the assistant’s workstation. Within the MiroSurge-System this step was performed by an industrial designer and a medical engineer in teamwork. METHODS: Context inquiries and field observation in MIRS were performed to define five overall goals. These goals had to be fulfilled by a novel design of a workstation to be used by the assistants. Suitable concepts were validated in usability tests. Based on the obtained results, a prototype was designed. RESULTS: A novel workstation for the assistants has been developed. The best design of this workstation is a mobile tower, which should be placed at the foot of the operating table. This tower contains all components needed for MIRS to reduce the entire system’s footprint. In addition to that, the complete preoperative workflow was analysed and redesigned for theMiroSuge- System. This includes especially the draping proceeder, which was reduced from more than four working steps to one. CONCLUSION: The footprint, the amount of working steps and the complexity were reduced to an easy to handle, suitable and configurable system. The developed workstation has to pass further usability test to be verified by different surgical teams.