STTR Phase I: Development of a lighted infusion line to optimize care and decrease complications of critically ill patients in infectious isolation (COVID-19)

小企业技术转移计划（STTR）第一阶段项目的更广泛影响/商业潜力是通过开发照明静脉输液管（IVT）使重症监护病房（ICU）对患者更安全，减轻护士的负担，从而更容易和无差错地输送药物，从而在COVID-19大流行期间提供更好的护理。IVT识别需要大量的护士时间，并带来巨大的认知负担，因为它需要手动跟踪从泵到患者的线路。与手动IVT追踪相关的错误代价高昂，导致ICU住院时间和医院责任增加。目前的大流行加剧了这些问题，因为ICU入院人数正在增加，使用加强隔离需要延长IVT。成功完成拟定计划将支持扩展照明IVT的开发，该扩展照明IVT允许通过使用光纤电缆可靠地识别从泵到患者的IVT，护士可以在识别线路时根据需要打开和关闭光纤电缆。与手动追踪线相比，照明线具有提供IVT线的更快速和无错误识别的潜力，从而减少错误对患者的影响，降低相关的医疗成本，小企业技术转移计划（STTR）第一阶段项目将推进新型发光静脉输液管（IVT）的开发。该设备允许护士通过使用连接到IVT外壁的发光光纤电缆快速准确地识别IVT。IVT和药物输送的管理需要护士手动跟踪从泵到患者的线路，这是一个容易出错的过程，并且对于同时需要10条或更多条IVT线路的ICU患者特别感兴趣。拟议的计划将通过执行两个目标来推进扩展照明IVT的发展。第一个目标是设计设备，以确保在隔离设置中使用的延长线的长度上可以保持照明。第二个目标是评估扩展原型在具有增强隔离的模拟ICU环境中的性能。第一阶段计划的成功完成将证明扩展照明IVT设备在隔离重症监护环境中的可行性，如减少护士负担和运动时间所定义的。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Technology Transfer Program (STTR) Phase I project is to make the intensive care unit (ICU) safer for patients and less burdensome for nurses through the development of an illuminated intravenous tubes (IVT) for easier and error-free delivery of medications, enabling better care generally as well as during the COVID-19 pandemic. IVT identification requires an inordinate amount of nurses’ time and confers an immense cognitive burden as it requires manual tracing of the line from pump to patient. The errors associated with manual IVT tracing are costly, contributing to increased ICU length of stay and hospital liability. The current pandemic has exacerbated these issues as ICU admissions are rising and the use of enhanced isolation requiring extended IVT. Successful completion of the proposed program will support the development of an extended illuminated IVT that allows for reliable identification of IVT from pump to patient through the use of a fiber optic cable that nurses can turn on and off as needed when identifying lines. In comparison to the manual tracing of lines, an illuminated line has the potential to provide more rapid and error-free identification of IVT lines, thus reducing the impact of errors on patients, decreasing associated medical costs, and improving nurse workload.This Small Business Technology Transfer Program (STTR) Phase I Project will advance the development of a novel lighted intravenous tubing (IVT) device to allow nurses to quickly and accurately identify IVT through the use of a light-emitting fiber optic cable attached to the outer wall of the IVT. Management of IVT and medication delivery, requires nurses to manually trace lines from pump to patient, which is an error prone process and particular interest for ICU patients that require upwards of 10 or more IVT lines simultaneously. The proposed program will advance the development of the extended illuminated IVT through the execution of two objectives. The first objective is to engineer the device to ensure that illumination can be maintained over the length of an extended line used in isolation settings. The second objective is to assess the performance of the extended prototype in a simulated ICU setting with enhanced isolation. Successful completion of the Phase I program will demonstrate feasibility of the extended illuminated IVT device in an isolation critical care setting as defined by reduced nurse burden and time in motion.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.