1. Cable and Fluid Line Management System
Justine W. Carter
Advisor:
Richard Fries, Datex-Ohmeda

2. Intensive Care Unit patients connected to many cables and fluid lines

3. Need for new reorganized cable and line system in the ICU
When patient is transported, moved, or turned over
Cables become tangled and/or disconnected
Untangling cables is time consuming
Misidentification of devices connected
Results in medical errors

4. Design System to Eliminate This Problem
Multiparameter Cable
Combines:
ECG,
SpO2
temperature

5. Design Generalized Multiparameter Cable
Combine Cables for
Heart Moniter
Cardiorespoiratry moniter
Pulse Oximeter/SpO2
Carbon Dioxide Moniter
Endotraceal tube
Respitory or Mechanical ventilator
IV Pumps

6. Proposed Design for Cable and Line Centralizer

7. Current Status Researched similar devices
Contacted Edmund Lagan in Radiology Department at Vanderbilt Medical Center
Completed IWB
Preliminary sketch

8. Future Work Design final schematic Research product materials
Research statistical information about medical errors
Re-Visit Medical Center
Confer with Dr. Lagan about design