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Customer Case – Integrum
Amputation is a common result of a severe traumatic injury. Internationally, landmines are the dominant cause of traumatic amputation and affects, as other sever injuries, mainly young people. In the industrial world, the majority of amputations are a consequence of impaired blood circulation in elderly. Tumours and congenital deformities can also result in a missing limb.
About Integrum
Integrum’s implant system for the direct bone anchorage of amputation prostheses is based on the principle of osseointegration, which has been developed by Professor Per-Ingvar Brånemark in Gothenburg. Osseointegration implies direct contact between a titanium implant and living bone tissue. The method has been in clinical use for theeth replacement since 1965, and more than a million patients have been treated since then. In a similar way, bone anchored prostheses are attached directly to the bone and do not have any contact with the skin. Many of the prosthesis related problems are eliminated and the functional ability of the patient is improved. Integrum is currently the world leader in this technology with over 200 treated patients all over the world.
Background
In its strive to improve patient quality of life, Integrum is researching and developing
active prosthesis that can be controlled by the patient through nerve signals detected
by implanted electrodes.
The end product will be an advanced med-tech product and the active prosthesis R&D project therefore has high requirements on documentation and processes. Integrum needed a reliable and complete, yet flexible and easy-to-use, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) framework to document its research findings and project outcomes in their preparation for future certification processes. The solution must be able to follow the product through its lifecycle from early prototyping work to the final release of the end product.
Solution
rt-labs rt-collab® was chosen as ALM infrastructure for the active prosthesis R&D project at Integrum. Rt-collab was deployed by rt-labs experts onsite and an introductory course was held for the project staff, to give the project members a jump start in their daily use of the product.
Conclusion
Integrum’s R&D project on the Natural Control of Artificial Limbs has successfully introduced rt-labs ALM system rt-collab allowing the team members to work more effectively together and documenting their common research findings and project outcomes.
“We appreciate the trouble-free deployment and the great support that rt-labs has provided in this project. We find rt-collab easy to use in our daily team activities providing us with structure and good order. Rt-collab platform will give us a very good position during the rest of our project” says Max Ortiz, principal scientist and project leader.
