End-user Need based Creation of a Medical Device: An Experience of Co-design to Struggle Pathological Scars

Thomas Lihoreau, Brice Chatelain, Gwenaël Rolin, Gwenaël Rolin, Chrystelle Vidal, Nadia Butterlin, Emmanuelle Jacquet, Aflah Elouneg, Jérôme Chambert, Xavier Bertrand, Christophe Meyer, Christophe Meyer, Aurélien Louvrier, Aurélien Louvrier

2020

Abstract

Scar is a common visible mark of human tissue healing. Sometimes pathological phenomena lead to abnormal hypertrophic or keloid scars, with evolutions varying depending on different conditions: origin of the tissue barrier disruption, concerned body area, or ethnic origin. Based on these statements, care procedures have been developed to avoid aesthetical or functional impairments: drugs injection, surgery, cryotherapy or mechanical compression. The story will relate the matching of a multi-disciplinary team that focused on covering an unmet need for ear lobe keloid treatment, providing patients an optimal and holistic care. The benefits researched lied in improving the understanding of the disorder, avoiding the recidivism of the scars, diminishing the frequency and duration of care, and in end improving patients’ quality of life. The paper will not only narrate the building of a health innovation, on technological, clinical, user points of view, but will also try to detail the evaluations planned at the different stages of development, as well as the challenges, conditions and prerequisites allowing to produce concrete solution.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Lihoreau T., Chatelain B., Rolin G., Vidal C., Butterlin N., Jacquet E., Elouneg A., Chambert J., Bertrand X., Meyer C. and Louvrier A. (2020). End-user Need based Creation of a Medical Device: An Experience of Co-design to Struggle Pathological Scars. In Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: ClinMed, ISBN 978-989-758-398-8, pages 317-322. DOI: 10.5220/0009369403170322

in Bibtex Style

@conference{clinmed20,
author={Thomas Lihoreau and Brice Chatelain and Gwenaël Rolin and Chrystelle Vidal and Nadia Butterlin and Emmanuelle Jacquet and Aflah Elouneg and Jérôme Chambert and Xavier Bertrand and Christophe Meyer and Aurélien Louvrier},
title={End-user Need based Creation of a Medical Device: An Experience of Co-design to Struggle Pathological Scars},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: ClinMed,},
year={2020},
pages={317-322},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009369403170322},
isbn={978-989-758-398-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: ClinMed,
TI - End-user Need based Creation of a Medical Device: An Experience of Co-design to Struggle Pathological Scars
SN - 978-989-758-398-8
AU - Lihoreau T.
AU - Chatelain B.
AU - Rolin G.
AU - Vidal C.
AU - Butterlin N.
AU - Jacquet E.
AU - Elouneg A.
AU - Chambert J.
AU - Bertrand X.
AU - Meyer C.
AU - Louvrier A.
PY - 2020
SP - 317
EP - 322
DO - 10.5220/0009369403170322