Improving C-Tube productivity and durability

快屏相信，每一位护士和每一位病人都有权对自己在医院的安全有信心。患者应该有信心，他们正在进入一个卫生、安全的空间，在这里他们的福利是最优先考虑的。护士应该有能让他们的生活更轻松的设备，这样他们就可以专注于病人。NHS在病房里使用窗帘来保护病人的隐私。据KwickScreen称，他们每年总共使用约50万张窗帘，市场价值为1.5亿英镑。一次性窗帘对环境的破坏令人难以置信，因为它们需要大量的塑料，并且在使用几周后就会被焚烧。这一制度有四个后果：(1)处置/替换产生约70公斤二氧化碳当量/床/年；(2)约638英镑/张/年的费用，促使医院减少更换频率；(3)卫生保健相关感染风险因患者遗传使用过的窗帘而增加；(4)额外的时间被分配给服务而不是病人。KwickScreen产品的设计经久耐用，易于现场清洁，使其成为环境的更好选择，并长期节省成本。在UCLH最近进行的一项调查中，80%的现有最终用户（医院员工）同意/强烈同意KwickScreen产品易于操作，对环境友好，并通过物理屏障为感染控制提供额外的防御层。KwickScreen的可伸缩筛管是由其专有的可伸缩分体式管组成，称为C-Tubes。这些管子是可收/可卷的。当延伸到0到3.2米的任意长度时，它们为隔断屏风提供水平和垂直支撑。在这个项目中，KwickScreen将与牛顿数学门户KwickScreen合作，从第一性原理开发c管物理性质的模型。这种C-Tubes的基础模型将有助于确定如何提高C-Tubes的耐久性。该模型将用于通知材料选择和制造过程，为下一代的c管前进。此外，KwickScreen还将与国家物理实验室合作，对现有c型管的失效模式进行表征。将设计新的耐久性测试，这些测试产生的信息将用于改进当前一代的c型管。这些实际测试将纳入第一原则模型，并产生协同效应，否则任何一个财团成员都无法单独实现这种协同效应。

KwickScreen believes that every nurse and every patient has the right to be confident in their safety in a hospital. Patients should feel confident that they are entering a hygienic, safe space where their welfare is the top priority. Nurses should have equipment that can make their lives easier so they can focus on patients. The NHS uses curtains in wards to provide patient privacy. Collectively they use ~500,000 curtains/year in a market worth £150million/year to KwickScreen. Disposable curtains are incredibly damaging to the environment as they require substantial quantities of plastic and are incinerated after a couple weeks of use. This regime has four consequences: (1) ~70kgCO2e/bed/year is produced from disposal/replacement; (2) costs of ~£638/bed/year are incurred, which encourages hospitals to reduce the change-frequency; (3) Healthcare-associated infection risk increases because patients inherit a used curtain; (4) additional time is allocated to servicing instead of patients. KwickScreen products are designed to be long lasting and easy to clean in-situ, making them a much better choice for the environment and to save cost long-term.During a recent survey conducted by UCLH, 80% of existing end users (hospital staff) agree/strongly agree that KwickScreen products are easy to operate, environmentally friendly, and provide an additional layer of defence against infection control with a physical barrier.KwickScreen's retractable screens are made possible by its proprietary split tube extendable members, called C-Tubes. These tubes are retractable/rollable. They provide both horizontal and vertical support for the partition screens when extended to any length from 0 to 3.2m.In this project, KwickScreen will partner with the Newton Gateway to Mathematics, KwickScreen to develop a model of the physical properties of C-Tubes from first principles. This ground-up model of C-Tubes will help determine how to improve C-Tubes' endurance. The model will be used to inform material selection and manufacturing processes going forward for the next generation of C-Tubes. KwickScreen will additionally partner with the National Physical Laboratory to characterise the failure modes for existing C-Tubes. New durability tests will be designed and the information these tests generate will be used to improve the current generation of C-Tubes. These practical tests will feed into the first principles model and create synergies that would otherwise not be possible for any of the consortium members alone.