Medical Tubing Organizer
- Detailed Technology Description
- The UWM Research Foundation presents the medical tubing organizer to organize the web of medical lines, cords and tubes often necessary to provide the best care to hospital patients. Inventor, Lindsey Roddy, an RN, BSN, and PhD Student has created the device to uniquely allow lines of varying diameters to be fastened through individual ‘loop’ attachments to a base.
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The UWM Research Foundation presents the medical tubing organizer to organize the web of medical lines, cords and tubes often necessary to provide the best care to hospital patients. Inventor, Lindsey Roddy, an RN, BSN, and PhD Student has created the device to uniquely allow lines of varying diameters to be fastened through individual ‘loop’ attachments to a base. Loop attachments are conceived as modular and re-attachable, to maintain up to 15 different tubing tangle-free. The organizer’s base is intended to improve patient mobility while maintaining central IV access. The design would allow it to be fastened repeatedly onto multiple surfaces including bedside rails, IV poles or wheelchairs or sit stably on other flat surfaces. A device manufactured from soft and sanitizable materials for single use or autoclavable for use in harsher environments is envisioned. Current methods to organize medical tubing are inadequate, often leading to a tangled mess. Significant time each shift is spent by nurses untangling lines rather than caring for patients. Tangled lines increase the risk of pulling out central IV access when the patient stands up or moves, or is transported for testing. Pulling out a line can cause complications such as bleeding, pneumothorax, air emboli in the blood, or lack of administration of appropriate lifesaving medications. Often nurses resort to labeling lines with the medication name on a sticker, or using a medicine cup or tongue depressor on a bedside rail for tubing organization, to reduces the hazards highlighted above. Our solution provides and answer to a dangerous problem for patients and hospitals.
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- USA
