抄録
Improvement of the quality of medical care is strongly required. Decreasing malpractice in medical treatment is quite important theme. Especially in the developing countries, numbers of people have been in the danger of accidental injection or sharing of needle, due to the poor design of conventional syringes. Proposing a new design of the syringe must be very important for better quality of medical care in such developing countries. By applying design methodology, the authors have experienced aware some breakthrough and achieved a novel design of the new syringe, that was safer than conventional syringes, and could be manufactured in lower costs than conventional ones. In concrete, the authors conceived of the idea of a novel syringe whose main material is paper sheet. The authors actualized safety mechanism by folding paper base, packaging design for prevention of reuse and a graphic design for easy-to-understand usage. In this paper, the author presents the design of this novel syringe, as well as the design process of the syringe.
