Authors (including presenting author) :
Lam HY(1), Wong Isadora (1), Chan TC(2)
Affiliation :
(1) Department of Nursing, TWGHs Fung Yiu King Hospital
(2) Department of Medicine and Geriatrics, TWGHs Fung Yiu King Hospital
Introduction :
The incident rate of IV Cannula drip dislodgement rate was high in geriatric units, especially to the patient group diagnosed with dementia. This circumstances increase patient’s risk of excessive bleeding, multiple IV puncture, delayed IV medication administration as well as delay the progress of recovery. Besides, it would also increase the workload of phlebotomist as well as cost of manpower expenditure.
By sourcing out the available medical devices in the market, and collect the feedback from the staff after trial use of the selected products, new medical devices for IV assess has been introduced in June 2018.
Objectives :
To improve quality of patient-care and job satisfaction of staff through introduction of new medical consumables
Methodology :
Calculate the rate of reset IV cannula of the same patient with 48hours prior to introduce the new securement dressing and compared to rate of reset IV cannula of the same patient within 48 hours after the introduce of new IV assess devices (new injection port, new securement dressing, and new protective barrier for fragile skin). Analyzed the significance of rate difference before and after new medical devices introduction.
Result & Outcome :
After introduction of the new devices, there is significant reduction in the prevalence of reset IV cannula for the same patient within 48 hours from 57% to 23.7%.
Before the introduction of new medical devices (26/03/2018 to 15/04/2018), the rate of reset IV cannula for the same patient within 48 hours was 57%.
After the introduction of new medical devices (16/04/2018 to 30/06/2018). The average rate of reset IV cannula for the same patient within 48 hours was 23.7%.
