Abstract
Many kinds of infusion devices are commercially available in Japan. In order to prevent medical accidents, the Juntendo University Hospital chose a closed infusion device made of polyvinyl chloride.
This study compares a complete kit and the manual preparation of closed infusion devices to clarify their efficiency and cost effects.
The study results show that using a closed infusion device kit reduces preparation time per single set from 96.1±22.4 to 55.8±12.0 seconds and per day from 97.0±22.0 to 22.0±3.0 minutes. This suggests that an introduction of a complete kit actually saves personnel work duration and in that sense expenses as well, however, the cost for using a kit was 1, 283, 424 yen more expensive per month than that for manual preparations.
Further analysis is required to clarify cost effectiveness in preventing medical incidences and catheter related infections in clinical settings.
