Text: Jens Persson
More than 17 million people die from cardiac arrests each year
in the world. In China alone that figure is 540,000, with the
out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival rate sitting below one
percent.
Shuai Li wanted to explore an affordable way to offer millions
of people training in Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, CPR, in
developing countries, China specifically. The result, CANNE, is a
home delivery CPR kit that is self-directed, low-cost and
sustainable. The CANNE CPR kit improves on today's on-site CPR
training by enhancing cardiac arrest scenario simulation through AR
and AI technologies via the smartphone.
The CANNE design concept consists of two parts:
• A corrugated cardboard Basic Life Support (BLS) learning kit
that allows laypeople to practice CPR, such as cardiac arrest
identification, chest compression and ventilation by
themselves.
• The BLS self-directed application on the smartphone that
enhances the learning experience by simulating cardiac arrest
scenarios and emergency medical services (EMS), providing real-time
feedback of compression and ventilation, as well as encouraging lay
people to join a final examination and granting an online BLS
certificate.
A target group of four billion people
"During my Master's in Advanced Product Design at UID, my
interest in healthcare industrial design led to an internship in
Laerdal Medical, Norway, where I explored the CPR training area.
This experience inspired me to further examine CPR training in
different demanding and realistic situations. In China and other
developing countries, where the economy is developing rapidly, I
identified a host of challenges and opportunities worth exploring
further" says Shuai Li.
It has proven difficult to increase the survival rate of
out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in developing countries because of
the low implementation rate of CPR training, which can often be too
costly in rural areas. With CANNE, Shuai Li hopes to provide an
affordable and accessible CPR training ecosystem that motivates
more laypeople to learn CPR by themselves. The product has the
potential to reach all smartphone users, a number that is fast
approaching four billion globally.
"I am currently looking into how I can move forward with this
project and would love to reach the market and improve the
life-saving skills of the lay public in China and beyond. For me,
it's important that the final design follows a sustainable vision.
The next steps will be to iterate the physical and digital product,
such as simplifying the assembly process and decreasing the colour
of prints on cardboard for a sustainable and lower cost purpose. I
also hope to work with the collaborating company, Laerdal Medical,
to test it in a current process" says Shuai Li.
With CANNE, Shuai Li became Sweden's national winners of the
James Dyson Award, an international design award promoting the next
generation of design engineers. On November 17th, the international
winner and the winner of the sustainability award will be
announced.
Explore CANNE in
the UID21 Project Gallery
