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The Elimination of CAUTI's (Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections)

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Event
  • Session
  • Monday, 30 January 2017
  • 16:30 - 16:30
  • Duration: 25 mins
  • Publication date: 03 Feb 2017
  • Location: Conference Centre, etc.venues, London, United Kingdom
  • Part of event Horizontal Innovation Conference 2017

About the session

Presentation Content

Dave Seaward? - A career in "innovation"

3P? - Custom Machinery with a difference

What are CAUTI's?

  Why are they a cost burden to Western healthcare?

3P's solution to CAUTI's?

The current status and the Horizontal Innovation Award

Closing thoughts

Keywords:
  • Horizontal Innovation
  • Triz
  • UTI
  • bladder
  • catheters
  • collaboration
  • engineering
  • foley catheters
  • infections
  • polymers
  • process development
  • product design
  • production systems
  • retailers
  • silver nanoparticles
  • technology
  • urinary tract

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Manufacturing

Manufacturing

Health care

Health care

Speaker

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    Dr Dave Seaward

    3P innovation Limited , Director

    Dave is a founding director of, UK based, 3P innovation Ltd. 3P innovation develops new processes and high-quality automation systems for clinical and commercial manufacture of drug delivery devices. 3P is active in automation associated with inhalers, injector pens, and modified release. They also work in confectionary and FMCG enabling cross fertilisation of ideas.Dave is a chartered engineer with a first degree in both electrical and mechanical engineering and a control theory PhD. His PhD focused on some of the first applications of servo motors to packaging machinery. This early work has led to a career spanning over 30 years associated with the development of custom automation for a variety of industries. These include the pharmaceutical and medical device sectors. He has been an IET member for over 30 years.Many of his projects have included advanced powder or liquid dispensing. He developed the way the pyramid teabag is filled with tea and is a named inventor on Unilever’s associated patent: as a result he is mentioned in the UK Patent Office book “Inventing the 20th Century”. Dave is named inventor on over 20 other patents and has worked on over 30 innovative medical device programmes. Some of which are the highest value (by sales) products on the planet.
health care hospitals medical supplies patient care
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