Accuflow an infusion rate monitor: An evaluation in pediatric patients

Shroff, Prerana P; Patel, Ruchit; Dave, Sona; Shetty, Anita; Dave, Darshan; Jaiswal, Vijaya

doi:10.1007/s12098-007-0205-9

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“…The findings on this study contradicted the results of other studies which stated that the majority of nurses agree that infusion pump alarms interfere with patient care, but perceptions about these alarms are indeed different, so it is not appropriate to apply broadly the general alarm management recommendations for infusion pump alarms to this time (Vitoux et al, 2018). A study reports that alarms on infusion pumps arise because there is no flow or excess flow, slow flow, blocked intravenous lines (Shroff et al, 2007). To make the alarm effective for a device, it should refer to World Health Organization (WHO) regulations which recommend that hospital sound levels should not exceed 30 decibels (dB) for continuous noise and 40 dB (for maximum sound).…”

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“…A study explained that the infusion rate was adjusted to the flow rate needed with the help of display on accuflow. The flow rate as shown by the accuflow display is checked every 15 minutes until the end of one hour, simultaneous notes from the manual reading are also made (Shroff et al, 2007). Drops calculate automatically was also one of the features expected by nurses.…”

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Exploring of Nurses’ Needs of New Design Intravenous System Device to Support Nursing Care Effectively

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Fluid control is important to support the success of therapy in the hospital. The existing features of the device currently do not fully support to ease the work of nurses. It is necessary to explore deeply the nurse’s need for the features of a new device intravenous system. The purpose of this study was to explore the nurse’s need for new design intravenous system devices to support nursing care effectively This was a qualitative study with thematic analysis methods. The participants were 20 nurses in Gotong Royong Hospital Surabaya taken by purposive sampling method. Data were collected by an in-depth interview. The instrument consists of structured questions. The interviews were recorded by a digital recorder. Ethical requirements are completed before data collection. This study found 4 themes consist of the economical price, multi-automatically system, flexible design, and simplicity. The nurse’s needs for a new design intravenous system device was designed more economical than today’s sophisticated device, and have more complete of automatic system, flexible and easy to use. These features match the needs expected by nurses and further assist in carrying out the nursing care process effectively and efficiently.

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“…Accordingly, this unit might conveniently be operated even without a handset, anywhere in the world. Regarding accuracy, measurements obtained by Accuflow exceeded the limit of the level of agreement beyond 100 drops/min . However, all 75 values measured in this study with IVIC in check mode were within the mean ± 1.96 standard deviation, thereby showing a better agreement.…”

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“…An experiment using this device was carried out to monitor the infusion rate in 47 paediatric patients. In the comparison of the usage of Accuflow (Troikaa Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Gujarat, India) and general manual reading, there was no significant difference between the values measured by Accuflow and the values measured by manual reading . The authors stated that since the device also had an additional function of sounding an alarm when the flow rate changed beyond a certain level or the flow stopped, it would be useful as a tool to enhance the accuracy of fluid infusion without increasing the workloads of nurses.…”

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Infusion volume control and calculation using metronome and drop counter based intravenous infusion therapy helper

Park

Lee

Kim

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Int J of Nursing Practice

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This study assessed the method of fluid infusion control using an IntraVenous Infusion Controller (IVIC). Four methods of infusion control (dial flow controller, IV set without correction, IV set with correction and IVIC correction) were used to measure the volume of each technique at two infusion rates. The infused fluid volume with a dial flow controller was significantly larger than other methods. The infused fluid volume was significantly smaller with an IV set without correction over time. Regarding the concordance correlation coefficient (CCC) of infused fluid volume in relation to a target volume, IVIC correction was shown to have the highest level of agreement. The flow rate measured in check mode showed a good agreement with the volume of collected fluid after passing through the IV system. Thus, an IVIC could assist in providing an accurate infusion control.

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“…Thus, WRMA systems for use in hospitals have been developed to measure the infusion rate and the residual amount of Ringer's solution [7][8][9]. These systems have focused on the infusion rate rather than the fluid level because an excessive flow rate of Ringer's solution is a serious risk to patients [10,11]. Therefore, most WRMA systems use ultrasound or a high-precision optical sensor to detect the dropping solution [12][13][14][15][16].…”

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Development of an Al-load-cell-based wireless ringer’s solution monitoring and alarm system: insight into vibrational error correction

Moon

Jang

2019

Biomed. Eng. Lett.

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In this study, we developed an aluminum-load-cell-based wireless Ringer's solution monitoring and alarm (WRMA) system. The Al load cell was designed with a rectangular shape, and the load was concentrated in the lower beam part of the load cell because of the anisotropic thickness. From the static analysis, we identified the appropriate location for a Wheatstone bridge circuit consisting of four strain gauges. In addition, the modal and harmonic analyses showed that the vibrational frequencies of the hospital environment do not seriously interfere with the output voltage of the Al load cell. However, random vibrations generated by the movement of the WRMA system on various surfaces severely increase the standard deviation of the measured solution weight by ± 10 g or more. Such vibrational error is too large because the average weight of Ringer's solution is 30-40 g at the time of replacing Ringer's solution. Thus, this error could be confusing for nurses and result in mistakes in the timely replacement of the Ringer's solution. However, the standard deviation of the measured weight was dramatically reduced to ± 3 g or less by using the vibration correction algorithm developed in the present study.

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Accuflow an infusion rate monitor: An evaluation in pediatric patients

Cited by 5 publications

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Exploring of Nurses’ Needs of New Design Intravenous System Device to Support Nursing Care Effectively

Exploring of Nurses’ Needs of New Design Intravenous System Device to Support Nursing Care Effectively

Infusion volume control and calculation using metronome and drop counter based intravenous infusion therapy helper

Development of an Al-load-cell-based wireless ringer’s solution monitoring and alarm system: insight into vibrational error correction

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