Progress Report 2

September 16, 2003

Project Title: IV Tube Organizer

Team Members: Blake Hondl, Amit Mehta, Ryan Pope, Kristen Sipsma, April Zehm, Katie Zenker

Client: Tim E. Corden

Advisor: Willis Tompkins

Date: 9/9/03 – 9/15/03

Problem Statement:

Currently the numerous amounts of IV tubing required for pediatric patients causes confusion in lines and places the patient at risk for injury. The goal of this project is to create an IV tubing organizer to prevent “spaghetti” while maintaining the functionality of an IV tube.

Restatement of Team Goals:

  1. Meet with client as a large group (all 6 members) on September 15, 2003
  2. Begin researching and brainstorming of design ideas
  3. Develop first draft of PDS

Summary of Team Accomplishments:

  1. Compiled progress report for large team and sent to client
  2. Performed patent search
  3. Split up roles in developing PDS
  4. Continued updating notebooks
  5. Client meeting – Our team met with the client for this project, Dr. Tim Corden, at the UW Children’s Hospital on 9/15. Key information from this meeting is as follows:
  6. Multiple IV lines used in pediatric patients often times gets mixed up and, more importantly creates entanglement of the IV tubes (“spaghetti”).
  7. Pediatric patients are vulnerable during transport from the operating room because during transport, all wires and tubing are placed unorganized on the gurney.
  8. Upon arrival to the patients’ room, nurses quickly reattach wires and tubing to ensure patient survival. Patient is prone it injury if any slight jerk on IV tubing caused from reattachment.
  9. Ultimate goal of this project would be to create a device such that IV tubing is in spring loaded tape measure type of organizer. This would allow for connection to both the tubing coming in from the syringe pump as well as out to the patient. There would be ~ 2ft of slack with the organizer that is equidistant from both the pump and the patient.

Summary of Individual Accomplishments:

Amit Mehta (Junior Leader)

  1. Researched spring loaded tape measures
  2. Conducted patent search
  3. Contacted client to reschedule meeting
  4. Met with client
  5. Wrote progress report

April Zehm (Sophomore Communicator)

  1. Organized meeting with client/E-mailed correspondence with team
  2. Met with client
  3. Organized design notebook

Ryan Pope (Junior BWIG Representative)

  1. Sketching preliminary ideas
  2. Met with client
  3. Internet searching

Kristen Sipsma (Sophomore BWIG Representative)

  1. Researched IV tubes
  2. Brainstorming questions for the customer
  3. Met with client

Blake Hondl (Junior BSAC Representative)

  1. Updating design notebook
  2. Brainstorming questions for client
  3. Meeting with client
  4. Working on PDS

Katie Zenker (Sophomore BSAC Representative)

  1. Researched IV Tubes
  2. Wrote up questions for our client
  3. Met with client

Statement of Team Goals:

  1. Continue research into relevant background information
  2. Patent search
  3. Research various methods by which minimizing “spaghetti” of IV lines.
  4. Use the information gathered to begin brainstorming ideas for potential designs. Try to come up with as many unique ideas as possible.
  5. Begin developing product design specification (PDS)

Project Schedule:

9/15Meet with client and define problem

9/8 – 9/26Research and brainstorm ideas, develop PDS

9/26 – 10/10Prepare mid-semester presentation

10/10Mid-semester presentations

10/11 – 11/21Come together as large group to choose final design idea and

develop a prototype, continue developing PDS

11/21 – 12/5Prepare final presentation and paper; finish prototype

12/5Final presentations

12/10 – 12/12Final written report and final meeting with advisor

Difficulties:None at the moment.

Activities:

Amit Mehta:

  1. Researched spring loaded tape measures – 1.5 hrs
  2. Conducted patent search – 1.5 hrs
  3. Contacted client to reschedule meeting – 0.25 hrs
  4. Met with client – 2.5 hrs
  5. Wrote progress report – 1.0 hrs

Total – 6.75 hrs

April Zehm:

  1. Organized meeting with client/E-mailed correspondence with team – 1.0 hrs
  2. Met with client – 2.5 hrs
  3. Organized design notebook – 0.5 hrs

Total – 4.0 hrs

Ryan Pope:

  1. Sketching preliminary ideas – 1.5 hrs
  2. Met with client – 2.5 hrs
  3. Internet searching – 0.75 hrs

Total – 5.75 hrs

Kristen Sipsma:

  1. Researched IV tubes – 1.0 hrs
  2. Brainstorming questions for the customer – 0.5 hrs
  3. Met with client – 2.5 hrs

Total – 4.0 hrs

Blake Hondl:

  1. Updating design notebook – 0.5 hrs
  2. Brainstorming questions for client – 1.0 hrs
  3. Meeting with client – 2.0 hrs
  4. Working on PDS – 1.0 hrs

Total – 4.5 hrs

Katie Zenker:

  1. Researched IV Tubes – 0.5 hrs
  2. Wrote up questions for our client – 0.5 hrs
  3. Met with client – 2.5 hrs

Total – 3.5 hrs

Team Total Hours for this week – 28.5 hrs

Cumulative Team Hours up to date – 41.25 hrs