User-Centered Design for Surgical Innovations: A Ventriculostomy Case Study

A lack of multidisciplinary collaboration during the design phase of surgical innovation development often ignores the people whom we are developing for and therefore omits meaningful and relevant user insights that can potentially be gathered about the context-of-use of a product. To mitigate this issue, we propose a user-centered design approach to developing surgical solutions. End-user involvement during product design has been linked to the development of more useful and usable solutions as it helps create a smooth transition between research, environment, and daily practice. In this paper, we describe the user-centered design process and give an example of how it can be incorporated to enhance the development of surgical innovations. As a case study, we focus on one of the most commonly performed and error-prone neurosurgical procedures, ventriculostomy.

Recommended citation: Reyes, J., El-Mufti, N., Gorman, S., Xie, D., & Kersten-Oertel, M. (2022). User-Centered Design for Surgical Innovations: A Ventriculostomy Case Study. EPIMI Workshop, MICCAI 2022.
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