A multidisciplinary designer passionate about bettering lives in the medical and healthcare landscape, Kenneth borrows insights from engineering into his empathy-driven human-centred designs. Through his experience as an army medic in his time serving in the Singapore military, Kenneth learned of medical design and the revolutionary impact these designs bring. As part of Monash Young Medical Innovators (MYMI), Kenneth spends his free time learning about current medical designs and enjoys having conversations about healthcare and sees the challenges faced as potential areas to explore.

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During Intravenous cannulation, a medical practitioner must juggle multiple complex procedural steps, exert pinpoint accuracy to a vein (2-4mm) and ensure sterility is maintained in an invisible ‘field’. This has been the bane of many practitioners starting out in this field for a long time and is only overcome by time, experience and exposure to cannulation over time.
IVA aims to redefine the intravenous process in a conservative way, transitioning the encumbered 2-handed procedure into a fully one-handed process for the practitioner. At the same time, this device minimises direct contact with the sterile IV components while anchoring the users’ hand to minimise the fatigue tremors that happen during long hospital shift hours. IVA is reusable and potentially reduces the complexity of the process for trainees and improving first time insertion success, saving tens of millions of dollars for the Australian healthcare service each year. IVA, makes IV better.

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