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Thank you again for your posts. I am indeed looking at those databases. The problem with the medical centre is you have to make an appointment for such a thing and the people are very, very slow to react. Thank you for all the input!

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And if anyone has any literature for available regarding this issue I would of course very much appreciate it!

Thank you very much for your comments, they are most helpful. It is indeed about the connection between catheter and patient, not about the lines and IV getting disconnected. Apologies if I was implying that. Posts like BahoRN's are most helpful. I would very much appreciate if people could corroborate this, add situations in which it has happened in their experience, or contradict it through examples. Have their been any experiences in which the poles on which IV bags are connected have been tipping over due to patients moving about the hospital or home? (I might imagine the poles getting caught on doorsteps). Any and all posts are helpful, not only those commenting on the problem directly, but also those commenting on my posts, it helps me to know if I am not stating things clear enough. Of course, any problems encountered with IV (pump) systems will be noted, regardless of what part of the system it is about.

I am quite certain there is an actual need, since the idea for this topic came from a discussion between me and my professor, why heads the Biomedical Technology department of my university, which is directly connected (and resides in) a hospital (UMCG: University Medical Centre). You're indeed correct that the topic is quite technical. However, the technical part is a concern of mine later into the project. Right now I am very much interested in what experiences people who actually implement the technology (to my knowledge: nurses) have with the IV pumps, this way I can take this into account when designing a new technology.

It can really be looked at in a most general sense. The idea is that the connection between IV and the patiënt is easily undone as a result of patient movement (and in the case of an IV pole, the movement of the pole). We are looking at either a hospital setting or patients at home, a setting in which patients are mobile and in use of an IV. I hope this also properly defines the patient population! Use of pumps is solely to create flow of fluids from IV bags to the patient (flow due to gravity alone not excluded). Pumps I am familiar with are the Enternal Pump, PCA pump, Insulin pump, syringe pump (not as relevant of course), elastomeric pump, peristaltic pump and more. Again, the type of pumps are not the main issue, it is the idea that patients connected to pumps or pump-less IV's via catheters experience the problem of catheter disconnection or other problems due to patient/pole mobility, or problems arising as a result from catheter disconnection. I apologise for maybe not formulating the problem clearly, I am not a native speaker. I hope I stated things more clearly!

Hello everyone, For my bachelor thesis I am working on improving IV pump systems, specifically the mobility of such systems. Before knowing what exactly to improve, I must of course know what exactly the problems regarding these pumps are. I am specifically interested in the problems encountered by nurses when implementing IV (pump) systems. Does the catheter become detached from the patient due to patient moevement a lot? What are the specific problems regarding patients moving about the hospital (or at home) when using an IV system attached to a an IV pole? Comments are very much appreciated! BMT4 P.S. Apologies for any spelling/grammar mistakes, I am not a native speaker.