To fulfil the requirements of the desired design in this project a number of tasks are recommended. So far, the team have focused on the design of the neonatal cannulation simulator, the moulds representing the cannulation sites have been fully designed and the existing systems components have been tested the overall design on the system is finalized but not implemented. As for the pediatric cannulation simulator design, it was concluded it will be a down sized design of the adult cannulation simulator with the same cannulation sites, where the other parameters should be calibrated to accurately represent the parameters for a pediatric patient.
The future recommendations are that, first the design developed in this project should be implemented, tested and validated. The circuit must be integrated with the mobile application and the programs and codes must be fully integrated with microcontroller. Further research is recommended to find out more complications and real-life threatening scenarios that might occur during the cannulation process, and the possibility of incorporation such scenarios in the simulator design. As for the pediatric cannulation simulator design, a careful study of the adult simulator design must be done with a further study on the proper way to downsize the design to fit a pediatric patient diminutions and anatomy. For the future it is recommended to continue to work closely with HMC and its ECMO specialists, to have the optimal design that fulfil the client’s requirements and needs.