Peritoneal dialysis no longer worries about infection. Practical nurse developed an auxiliary device and obtained a patent.

The fifth stage of chronic kidney disease: end-stage kidney disease, uremic chronic kidney disease. The second stage: mild chronic kidney disease, which needs to control blood sugar, blood pressure, diet and drugs, and create advanced treatment for kidney friends to benefit kidney and high phosphorus. Although it is convenient for patients with chronic renal failure with ferric citrate to have peritoneal dialysis at home, they are afraid of infection by changing fluids three to five times a day. After one year's efforts, the nursing team of peritoneal dialysis in Department of Nephrology, Chiayi Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital has developed an "auxiliary device for peritoneal dialysis connection and fixation", so that patients with poor eyesight or unstable hands can easily use the auxiliary device to install catheters for peritoneal dialysis, effectively avoiding the risk of infection. This achievement has won the patent certificate of the Intellectual Property Office of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, which is called the light of nursing.

Touching the catheter by hand is easy to be polluted, and peritonitis needs hospitalization.

Peritoneal dialysis practical nurse Garlum said that peritoneal dialysis patients have a peritoneal dialysis catheter, which is mainly used to receive liquid medicine. Because it needs to be connected every time the dialysate is changed. For elderly patients with presbyopia, poor eyesight, trembling hands and weakness, they may not be able to align and connect during the connection process, which may lead to pipeline pollution caused by careless touching of the catheter, and then lead to hospitalization for peritonitis. Therefore, once the connector is contaminated, they have to go back to the hospital to replace the pipeline, so they have to be careful when docking the pipeline.

The device is linked with the rotating handle to directly lock the joint to avoid infection.

And nurses Wang, Xu Xiaoyun and Lin form a research and development team to help renal dialysis patients solve the infection problem. Under the guidance of Associate Professor Lin of Tzu Chi University of Science and Technology and Lin Xinglong, the head of Tzu Chi nursing department in Dalin, they began to design and replace the dialysate rack, and then improved the docking problem in the process. According to this concept, they found a slide rail to dock. The team thinks from the patient's perspective. In order to solve the problem of patients with weak hands and shaking hands, the device is made of a handle that can be rotated in series, that is, it can be easily and effortlessly rotated, and then directly locked to solve any possibility of infection.

The Peritoneal Dialysis Nursing Team of Department of Nephrology, Chiayi Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital has developed a "Peritoneal Dialysis Connection Fixing Auxiliary Device" to effectively avoid the risk of infection. This achievement has won patent recognition and is called the light of nursing. (Image courtesy of Dalin Ciyuan)

Nursing colleagues play a creative role and design assistive devices to relieve patients' pain.

Chen Jiarong, director of the nursing department, said that colleagues in peritoneal dialysis nursing are very careful. In order to alleviate the pain of patients, there are better ways in the treatment process. They inspire different thinking from clinical work, constantly change design methods through teamwork, and improve and solve problems. In addition to winning patent recognition, I hope everyone can give more applause to these hard-working nursing colleagues.

Subject: Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, chronic renal failure, peritoneal dialysis.