Video: Design that Matters Creates Firefly, a Device To Treat Jaundice
15Faced with the knowledge that many existing medical devices don’t meet the needs of hospitals in developing countries, Design that Matters worked with the St Boniface hospital in Haiti to develop Firefly - an easy-to-use, highly effective phototherapy device to treat newborn jaundice.
About Design that Matters:
Autodesk Foundation grantee Design that Matters is a nonprofit using design to solve problems for and with the poor in developing countries. Their Firefly device is now in 19 countries and has treated over 26,000 newborns. It allows rural hospitals with limited resources and inexperienced staff to successfully treat otherwise healthy newborns for jaundice by providing high-intensity phototherapy that is “hard to use wrong”--in other words, it eliminates the most common sources of product failure. Design that Matters doesn’t accept a world in which countless newborns are at risk of lifelong disability and death from easily treatable conditions like jaundice, hypothermia and pneumonia, and where hundreds of millions of dollars in donated medical equipment goes to waste. Learn more: http://www.autodesk.org/stories/design-that-matters
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