IV pole | IV stand | drip stand
Overview:
A new design of motorised drip stand that offers an ergonomic loading height which circumvents potential health and safety risks of current model. It is a simple easy-to-assemble commercial powered drip stand.
Problem:
Urological procedures have high volume irrigation requirements and to ensure adequate head pressure and flow rates, bags of saline or glycine have to be elevated to heights well above shoulder height. Regular drip stands provide no assistance to theatre staff in raising irrigation bags to the required height, and even mounting bags onto them can be a challenge for many shorter theatre nurses and ODA’s, because the stands cannot be lowered to shoulder height. Such a repetitive manual task can place theatre staff involved in urological procedures at risk of both acute and chronic back and shoulder injuries.
Solution:
Clinical engineers and technologists of the Medical Engineering Section of Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust have constructed the prototype which provides a safe method to elevate drip bags where a high gravity-fed flow rate of fluid delivery is required. It may have uses for other theatre procedures, and lends itself for attachment on to a theatre bed (it is not intended for use in central nervous system or central circulatory system operations).
Technical Features:
Capacity: Two 3l drip bags
Maximum extended height 2.4 m
Loading height 1.5 m
Up / down hand controller
Emergency stop
Electrical safety cut-out
240V mains with optional battery powered
24V DC (overnight recharge)
Stable 5-point base of support
Set on braked castors for safe and easy positioning
Unladen weight 22 kg
CE marked
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