So I work in surgical simulation training. And yeah the OR in my observations has also not been this romanticized mission control thing that I was expecting.
My impression is that it is more like a mechanic shop: people are doing their jobs, they're looking at the clock, thinking schedule, they're listening to music or radio, they're maybe casually arguing about something. They're used to their tools and instruments, they're in some sort of routine, everybody has their individual subdomain or specialty.
This stuff is tricky because you're not just coming up with a device, you're coming up with new human behavior in connection with the device. The human (anesthetist) needs to be won over by the physiological model, and then they need to actually be effective with it.
The funny anecdotes I've heard from an anesthetist were along the lines of "They're introducing new equipment that rings alarms about things I already know, so my job becomes turning those alarms off".
How far along we are is a complex.
We've had an early version of the software used for several years,
So we've possibly reached the point where we have enough data for pre clinical studies, we have some senior clinicians with no financial links to the company that are converts and spruiking the model and software at major conferences and in lectures to their students. We've have a new version of the software to give to them before the end of the year. we have studies published. So it's got momentum, but we have the whole FDA journey ahead of us.
But with this part:
> This stuff is tricky because you're not just coming up with a device, you're coming up with new human > behavior in connection with the device. The human (anesthetist) needs to be won over by the
> physiological model, and then they need to actually be effective with it.
with our small sample group, I think we're going pretty well.
My impression is that it is more like a mechanic shop: people are doing their jobs, they're looking at the clock, thinking schedule, they're listening to music or radio, they're maybe casually arguing about something. They're used to their tools and instruments, they're in some sort of routine, everybody has their individual subdomain or specialty.
This stuff is tricky because you're not just coming up with a device, you're coming up with new human behavior in connection with the device. The human (anesthetist) needs to be won over by the physiological model, and then they need to actually be effective with it.
The funny anecdotes I've heard from an anesthetist were along the lines of "They're introducing new equipment that rings alarms about things I already know, so my job becomes turning those alarms off".
How far along with this process are you?