"Before, during an IV drip, you had to keep an eye on the fluid level. When it was almost finished, you needed to press the call bell or go find a nurse. If I was accompanying someone, I wouldn't even dare go to the restroom when I saw the drip was about to run out," said Ms. Zhang, a patient's family member. Pointing to the small white device on the bedside IV stand, she added, "This little white thing is quite amazing. You don't need to press the bell for IVs anymore; the nurse comes to the bedside ahead of time just before it finishes."

IV Monitor Mounted on the Ward IV Stand

The Full Closed-loop Intelligent Infusion Management System implemented at Shenzhen Second People's Hospital uses a small white device—the IV monitor—mounted on the IV stand to accurately track the remaining fluid volume and drip rate. Nurses no longer need to constantly patrol to check infusion progress; they can remotely monitor the status from the nurse station via a large TV screen or smart handheld PDAs.

IV Monitor

Infusion Monitoring Interface

Smart Monitoring

Peace of Mind for Patients, Reduced Burden for Nurses

In the Geriatrics department on the 22nd floor of the surgical building, nurses face a heavy daily workload for IV administrations.

"We're on edge from morning till night, worried that not being able to change fluids or remove needles promptly might lead to patient dissatisfaction," a nurse shared in conversation.

Nurse Preparing IV Fluids

Using smart technology to help nurses safeguard patients has significantly reduced their psychological stress while greatly enhancing patients' sense of safety during infusion. Previously, patients would press bedside call bells when their IV was nearly finished. The incessant ringing kept us scrambling and disturbed patients needing quiet rest. With this smart infusion system, the ward has become much quieter, and IV management is more orderly.

At night, when patients and families are less vigilant about the infusion status than during the day, this system provides real-time monitoring to ensure safety. This is another aspect that makes them feel more secure.

Early Detection of Infusion Anomalies

for Timely Intervention

In infusion work, it's common to encounter patients or family members擅自 adjusting the drip rate. Such actions can easily cause adverse reactions. For general medications, the clinical infusion rate should be maintained between 40-60 drops per minute. Excessive speed can, in severe cases, lead to cardiac arrest or respiratory failure.

The large screen at the nurse station displays the remaining volume and drip rate for each patient in real-time. If a patient's drip rate exceeds the preset range, the rate on the interface is highlighted in red with an audible alarm. Additionally, nurses receive real-time alerts on their smart handheld PDAs, allowing them to stay informed about patient infusion status anytime, anywhere.

Timely Monitoring of Patient Infusion Status

Fully Closed-Loop and Traceable

Ensuring Patient Infusion Safety

Before starting an infusion, the nurse scans the patient's wristband (worn upon admission) to verify identity, then scans the QR code on the IV bag for verification and execution. After hanging the bag on the monitor's hook, the device automatically detects the bag specifications and begins remote monitoring—no button presses required. Through seamless integration with the hospital's information system, every step the nurse performs is synchronized with backend data, ensuring a complete, traceable record for each infusion step.

Medical safety concerns every patient's life. Non-standardized processes and manual verification methods can lead to errors. The system optimizes the infusion workflow, ensuring every nurse action is performed through informatized means. It not only adheres to the Five "Rights" of medication administration during infusion—the right patient, right drug, right dose, right route, and right time—but also enables nurses to remove needles at the right time for the right patient. It allows them to stay constantly updated on real-time infusion changes, ensuring patient safety and information traceability.

Patient safety and quality of care are hard metrics for evaluating hospital service standards. Safety management during patient care is a key focus for all medical institutions, and the challenge nursing management hopes to solve is how to allocate human resources rationally and design more scientific and effective management models.

The Full Closed-loop Intelligent Infusion Management System not only safeguards the infusion process but also provides data support for hospital operational management through its traceability and data integration capabilities. By collecting and integrating data on infusion patients, workload, medication usage, and alerts, the system automatically generates various charts and graphs. This allows nursing management to visually assess whether human resource allocation for infusion management is rational and to identify where infusion-related issues are primarily concentrated. Consequently, they can implement targeted, continuous improvements, consistently enhancing the quality of nursing services.