Learning Medical Device Design
Building skills by learning the design of acclaimed medical devices to understand their working (purely for learning/educational purposes)
Building skills by learning the design of acclaimed medical devices to understand their working (purely for learning/educational purposes)
Smith & Nephew – VISIONAIRE◊ Adaptive Guides (Tibial Guide)
Smith & Nephew VISIONAIRE◊ Adaptive Guides – medical devices intended to be used as a patient-specific surgical instrument to assist in the positioning of total knee replacement components intraoperatively
VISIONAIRE◊ Adaptive Guides – guide the marking of bone before cutting provided that anatomic landmarks necessary for alignment and positioning of the implant are identifiable on patient imaging scans
(Source: VISIONAIRE◊ Adaptive Guides Surgical Technique Sheet)
Source: VISIONAIRE◊ Adaptive Guides Homepage
3D CAD model of tibial guide designed in Fusion 360
3D CAD model of the tibial guide designed in Fusion 360.Component labelings are from Smith & Nephew’s product info sheet
Attempted to understand the functioning of the adaptive guide medical device and its components
Designed a 3D model of tibial guide of the surgical instrument using CAD software (Autodesk Fusion 360)
Mechanical Design skill-building (with an ambition to design medical devices that positively impact lives)