Achieving appropriate design for developing world heath care: the case of a low-cost autoclave for primary health clinics. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2012;2012:2400-3. Cho HS, Tao GD, Winter A. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. [email protected] In developing world health clinics, incidence of surgical site infection is 2 to 10 times higher than in developed world hospitals. This paper identifies lack of availability of appropriately designed, low-cost autoclaves in developing world health clinics as a major contributing factor to the dramatic gap in surgical site infection rates. The paper describes the process of developing a low-cost autoclave that addresses the unique challenges faced by developing world primary health clinics and discusses how appropriateness of design was determined. The resulting pressure cooker-based autoclave design was fabricated and tested against the CDC specifications. Twelve partnering clinics in Nepal trialed these autoclaves from July until December 2012. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23366408
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