Gerry Gunderson
QTS’ Principal Project Engineer, Brian Nissen, and Vice President of Systems, Gerry Gunderseon, were recently featured in an article published in BONEZONE by ORTHOWORLD.
In the article, “Identifiable and Sterile: Trends Driving Device Packaging,” Gunderson and Nissen discuss how new UDI guidance and movement towards single-use, sterile products have impacted medical device labeling and outsourcing trends.
“That small requirement, that medical devices bear a UDI and a human readable, set off a whole chain of events in terms of label layout and label size selection,” he [Gunderson] says. “Suddenly, you have a need in label validation and production to have a tool that could interpret machine readable codes.”
Brian Nissen
Additionally, they note the importance of spending time with end-users (most often, nursing staff) and examining the package needs to be more cost-effective and efficient.
Nissen stresses that for package designers, the benefits of spending time with perioperative nurses and scrub nurses can be immense. “We’ve found that even a few hours with a scrub or surgical nurse is worth several months of engineering experience,” he says.
Read the full article here.