The Ambu® aScope BronchoSampler™ wins prestigious award for improving the workflow and safety of hospital procedures involving lung fluid samples.

Thursday 25 November, the Danish Design Awards 2021 were announced, and Ambu won the award in the category 'Better Work' which focuses on how design can contribute to solving workplace challenges thorough innovative and effective solutions.

The award jury said about the aScope BronchoSampler that it "provides a much-improved method for taking samples and performing suction cleaning in lung operations. There are several innovations involved, but mainly the one-handed operation means the procedures can be performed by a single person which is a great design improvement. The solution also reduces the risk of contamination and provides for an overall safer procedure. Until now, there has not been any major changes in these methods since the late 1970s and the development team took a design-led approach to finding a new and simplified solution."

Making a difference for doctors and patients
Ambu's Chief Innovation Officer, Måns Barsne, comments on the win and emphasizes how the award is the result of a customer-centric approach: "Our goal is to improve healthcare and patient treatment - and the best way to achieve results that make a real difference is to be close to the users. We are proud of the difference this unique device makes for doctors and patients, and to be recognised with a Danish Design Award is an honour. By the way, we do not use 'unique' as a buzzword - our device is actually the only solution of its kind."

The aScope BronchoSampler simplifies the clinical procedure of fluid sampling and changes it to a one-man/one-woman job. This can lead to procedure cost-savings, more flexible hospital staff planning and simply a safer procedure for the healthcare professionals to perform. The potential cost savings are for the procedure itself as well as the indirect cost of losing a sample or hospital staff being infected from contact with a patient's lung fluid.

The aScope BronchoSampler can be used for regular pneumonia patients but is also extremely relevant for COVID-patients with lung problems where there is an increased focus on avoiding cross-contamination.

About the Danish Design Award
Danish Design Award is the major annual Danish design event celebrating the best design solutions and highlighting the many ways in which design can make a difference for our society. Read more and see all Danish Design Award 2021 winners or go directly to Danish Design Award winner: aScope BronchoSampler.

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