Peripheral IV Guidance Using AR Visualization and Site Selection
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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
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional IV catheter placement training is used, then healthcare providers gain basic placement skills, but premature removal of IV catheters occurs due to insufficient understanding of proper insertion sites and techniques
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a sticker as an intermediary educational tool that is placed on the patient's skin at the intended insertion site. The sticker serves as a visual aid and reference point during the procedure, helping providers maintain proper site selection and technique throughout the catheter placement process, thereby reducing premature removal due to insufficient understanding.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs consequence-based learning that presents scenarios and outcomes before actual practice. By showing providers the consequences of improper insertion site selection and technique in advance, they can learn from these simulated outcomes and adjust their behavior in actual clinical practice, improving IV catheter retention rates.
2Loss of information
If more comprehensive educational guidance is provided, then user understanding of proper insertion sites and techniques improves, but training time and system complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The sticker is designed to be self-explanatory and self-guiding, providing educational information directly at the point of care without requiring additional complex training systems. The sticker itself serves as the educational tool, eliminating the need for extensive external training programs while still conveying essential information about proper insertion sites and techniques.
3Ease of manufacture
If traditional training methods are used, then training implementation is simple, but healthcare providers lack sufficient knowledge to prevent IV complications
Solution Approach 1:
The sticker acts as a simple-to-implement intermediary tool that bridges the gap between traditional training and improved clinical outcomes. It provides ongoing visual guidance at the point of care without requiring complex training infrastructure, making it easy to implement while effectively improving providers' understanding and application of proper insertion techniques.
Data Source
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.