Peripheral IV Guidance Using AR Site Selection and Feedback

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Solution Overview

Problem

Up to 50% of peripheral IV catheters are removed prematurely due to complications, posing a significant burden on the healthcare system, despite clinical standards suggesting their removal only when clinically indicated.

Innovation Solution

A computer-implemented method and system providing educational guidance through a machine that prompts users to select appropriate insertion sites and products for IV catheters, using augmented or virtual reality to visualize complications and risks, and offers consequence-based learning to improve placement and maintenance skills.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional IV catheter placement training is used, then healthcare providers can perform basic insertion procedures, but premature removal due to complications occurs in up to 50% of cases

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveIV catheter retention rateVSAvoidcomplications leading to premature removal

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary assessment of insertion sites using imaging technology before catheter placement. This allows identification of optimal sites and potential complications in advance, enabling providers to make informed decisions that reduce premature removal and complications.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides real-time feedback during the insertion process by visualizing anatomical structures and potential complications. This feedback loop allows providers to adjust their technique immediately, improving success rates and reducing complications that lead to premature removal.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

2Reliability

If more comprehensive training and assessment tools are implemented, then IV placement quality improves, but system complexity and resource requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveIV placement success rateVSAvoideducational system complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system replaces complex physical training models and cadaver labs with a digital virtual reality platform. This substitution maintains training effectiveness while reducing physical resource requirements and simplifying system deployment in clinical settings.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The system serves multiple functions including education, assessment, and real-time guidance within a single platform. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate training systems and equipment, thereby decreasing overall system complexity while maintaining comprehensive training capabilities.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS20260007479A1Methods and Applications for Providing Educational Guidance for Peripheral IV Therapy

Publication Date: 2026.01.08 BECTON DICKINSON & CO

AI summary

Computer-implemented methods and applications for providing a user with educational guidance for peripheral IV therapy are described. In one example, a computer-implemented method for providing educational guidance for peripheral IV therapy includes displaying, on a display of a machine, a main menu including a plurality of person profiles; machine-prompting the user to select one person profile of the plurality of person profiles; machine-prompting the user to select an insertion site from a plurality of insertion sites on a person's appendage based on the selected person profile; machine-prompting the user to select a first product category from a plurality of product categories; and machine-prompting the user to select a first product of a plurality of products within the first product category, the first product being a most appropriate product of the plurality of products based at least in part on the selected person profile.