Summer 2020 Remote Research

With the unanimous and enthusiastic support of more than 70 registered nurses (RN) in the intensive care units (ICU) of Duke University Health System who were interviewed to validate the clinical need, our NatIV Technologies team is currently in the process of developing and marketing a product that will allow for easy, fast, and safe identification and tracing of IV tubing. I am working with this team to develop a device that will add clinical and economic value to the daily nursing workflow but will also become an important tool in the event of a medical emergency via the temporary illumination of a target IV line. This product can also be of significant value during the COVID-19 pandemic. To conserve personal protective equipment (PPE), hospitals are stretching IV tubing to outside patients’ rooms to minimize physical contact when administering medication. However, this removes the nurses’ ability to trace a line to the patient to ensure it is the correct line. The LumosIV will allow for confident, safe visual tracing while maintaining physical distancing of the staff from the patient.