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IV alarm that beeps at the nurses instead of the patient!

[Category : - HEALTH]
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Hundreds of infusion alarms sound every day in the hospital unit I work on as a nurse. The alarms start beeping near the patients' ears and continue until I hear the noise, figure out which room it's coming from, and run in to fix the problem. Often, I can’t tell which room the alarm is coming from, or don’t even hear it at all when I'm in another hallway or patient's room, leaving someone with an obnoxious alarm beeping in their ear for far too long. Though the IV pump alarms are almost always sounding for a non-critical issue, the amount of time that patients have to lie there with an alarm beeping by their head is disconcerting for them, especially those with impaired cognition. It also frequently wakes them up at night and during naps and causes unnecessary anxiety. Just read this Reddit post full of peoples' bad experiences with IV alarms in the hospital: Link

Some “smart” IV pumps have been created with the ability to forward messages to a device that would alert the health care worker when the infusion is complete or when there is a problem with the line, but purchasing all new IV pump systems as well as devices for forwarding alerts and servicing is too costly for most health care institutions, especially those like the one I work in with hundreds of rooms. An average pump without even the newest technology can cost $2,000-$5,000. We need a more simple, affordable solution that doesn't cost the hospitals a fortune and require all the employees to be re-trained on how to work the IV pumps and accessory devices.

I took a look at a standard hospital bed alarm- it’s connected to a Y connector and sets the light on the outside of the room off, as well as calling the CNA.. if it’s not something the CNA can get to, the call is forwarded to the nurse. Something to pick up the noise, connect to that same wall alarm, and forward it to our phones. My patent is for a connector and/or IV device that would include the IV alarms in notifying the CNA or nurse in a similar manner that the bed alarms and call bells do.

Necesary parts would be:
1. A component that senses the IV alarm,
2. A connector cord (what looks like an aux cord and/or ethernet connector) that plugs into the alarm system. The system gets programmed to the phones (and shows which room number the call is coming from on the caller ID) and sets off the door light. (See attached pictures of the system that is used at my work to connect to the work phones when someone presses their call light or leaves their bed).
3. A 3-way splitter connector cord since the call light and bed alarm are already connected into the device (see diagram).

Say goodbye to being woken up by, trapped in a room with, and annoyed by frequent IV alarms in a hospital setting. It's time to alert the right person at an affordable price for facilities.

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