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1. Enteral feeding patients in hospice/carehome facility

   i.care replied to i.care's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks for all your responses. I am currently working with both bolus and pump fed patients but to be honest it's still all a bit new to me ! The new product they were showing me was a low cost electronic gravity fed flow controller aimed at overnigh...

2. Enteral feeding patients in hospice/carehome facility

   i.care posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hi all, I have worked in a carehome facility for a while now and have some patients that unfortuntaely have to be fed through tubes for various reasons. I was recently approached by a local company who is developing an Enteral Feeding flow rate contr...

3. Compression bandages and wet venous ulcers

   i.care posted a topic in General Nursing

   Our clinicians always want compression bandages on chronic venous ulcers but we seem to get alot of wet ulcers which soak the bandages within the day !!! This means we're forever changing them, anyone got any ideas for helping me to manage this ???

4. Negative Pressure Wound Therapy - does it really help ??

   i.care replied to i.care's topic in General Nursing

   Great, thanks for all your comments. The company I work at is thinking about designing a NPWT vaccuum pump and starting to make them. It's great to hear that you all see benifits in using them. What features are helpful to you when you're using these...

5. Negative Pressure Wound Therapy - does it really help ??

   i.care posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hi, I am interested in learning more about Negative pressure wound therapy. Does it really improve the healing of open wounds / sores ? Does anyone have experience with this type of therapy ? Is there any clinical data to suggest such ? Apparently it...

6. What is the best IV fluid flow controller for general use in the ward?

   i.care replied to i.care's topic in General Nursing

   Yep, I've seen them before, they were a step in the right direction but still didn't give that greater acuracy. The device they're working is like an automatic roller clamp, it has a digital screen and buttons...it's looks pretty cool too !!

7. What is the best IV fluid flow controller for general use in the ward?

   i.care posted a topic in General Nursing

   I have been asked to help a small New Zealand company design new type of IV fluid flow controller. Apparently it's quite different to a pump but it does pretty much the same in a simplified way. The device is for general ward use especially focusing ...

8. Evaluating IV Pumps for use

   i.care posted a topic in General Nursing

   We are currently thinking about getting some IV pumps in our place of work. What features are good to look for on these things? What do you use the most? What features does the ideal IV pump have? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated !!!

9. Working out these IV Pumps...

   i.care replied to i.care's topic in General Nursing

   Does anyone ever set these things using a VTBI over a time period and never entering a flowrate?

10. Working out these IV Pumps...

    i.care posted a topic in General Nursing

    So I'm learning about these IV pumps... Most of what I'm delivering is non-critical, Saline solutions, Blood, etc... and almost always on the ward. When I'm using these things all I'm really interested in is setting a mls/hr flow rate and letting the...

11. Roller clamp flowrate inaccuracy

    i.care posted a topic in General Nursing

    Does anyone else have issues with the Roller clamp being inaccurate when administering IV Solutions? When you set a flowrate by gtts counting and come back to it half an hour later it's changed. How much time is wasted spent resetting these things?

12. IV Administration problems - Roller clamp vs Pump

    i.care replied to i.care's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks everyone, I guess I did mean that pumps were 'overkill' rather than complex. Most of the time I'm just using the Alaris pump for very simple rehydration activities.

13. IV Administration problems - Roller clamp vs Pump

    i.care replied to i.care's topic in General Nursing

    I love the control a pump gives you, it just takes me ages to set the things. Most of the time all I'm interested in is setting the Flowrate and the volume to be infused (VTBI), the rest of the functionality is just there to confuse me.

14. IV Administration problems - Roller clamp vs Pump

    i.care replied to i.care's topic in General Nursing

    Don't you all find there's a shortage of pumps in your hospitals, I can never find one...... and roller clamps lose their accuracy almost immediately after I've set them..... hhmmmm...thanks for all your responses!

15. IV Administration problems - Roller clamp vs Pump

    i.care posted a topic in General Nursing

    Why isn't there a device that's easier to use than a Pump for simple patient rehydration? Nurses srtuggle to get the accuracy they require with a Roller clamp so the next option is a Pump. Using a pump is incredibly complex for this simple task ?