One-stop Solution To Infusion Challenges

Hospital departments including internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, cardiovascular, emergency, and so on, face significant challenges related to the accurate control of infusion flow rates. Therefore, infusion pumps become popular in hospitals and now have become the main infusion control method in inpatient wards because of its high precision of flow rate control, large flow rate range, and mobility.

However, for ICU (eg: CCU, MICU, SICU, NIC, PICU, and EICU) where critically ill patients are relatively concentrated, every step of treatment involves the balance of water, electrolyte, and acid-base because of their severe condition and poor tolerance. As a result, the therapeutic dose of fluids and drugs and the speed of infusion have higher requirements. Moreover, with the increase of infusion demands for a single patient, the labor intensity of nurses is also increasing, which leads to the increasing error rate and medical negligence.

In order to ensure the quality of infusion, improve the infusion efficiency, and finally reduce the possibility of medical negligence, infusion workstation is gradually introduced to hospitals.

Generally composed of infusion pumps, syringe pumps and control pad, the infusion workstation can achieve dynamic control and centralized management of all infusion processes of each composing pump through intelligent computer control and database information management.

Through WiFi network, the infusion status can be integrated to the hospital Client Information System (CIS) to achieve the standardized infusion monitoring and management, greatly improves the infusion management efficiency and the level of medical informatization.

The infusion workstation is a revolution in infusion management and clinical nursing methods and improves the information management services of modern hospitals.

There are many different types of infusion workstations on the market. Certain versions have only a screen to display the infusion status without the function to set the operation of each pump. Meanwhile, more advanced version such as the Hawkmed HAWK-WS2 Infusion Workstation has a control center to allow nurses to set the parameters and operational conditions of each pump directly, greatly reduces the working pressure of them.

Note: Taking different demands into consideration, Hawkmed has launched two different types of infusion workstations, including HAWK-WS1 (without the control pad) and HAWK-WS2 (with the control pad).

How does this workstation work and what are its exclusive advantages?

Owing to its expandable modular stacking system, HAWK-WS1/WS2 infusion workstation supports the free combination of infusion and syringe pumps. This  modularity enables tool-free vertical stacking of 2 to 12 pumps offering a series of combination choices to address clinical needs for a variety of infusion scenarios. Each module can be controlled to run in an cascaded relay to reduce the risk of frequent dressing change of multiple infusion tasks for high-risk patients which is very useful in keeping the safety of multiple infusion.

Moreover, thanks to the innovative hot-plug design, each pump works independently no matter attached and detached from the infusion workstation, which offers flexibility for nurses to randomly distribute them for other patients’ use.

That’s not the end! Only one power cord is needed while charging whole infusion workstations no matter how many pumps are there. This greatly simplifies the power supply process and power cord storage.

HAWK-WS2 7-inch color screen enables nurses to view the comprehensive patient information and infusion status of each pump in vivid color. The intuitive UI design simplifies the interface, shortens needed learning time, and allows nurses to control all pumps within several touches to improve the operation efficiency.

The pumps of HAWK-WS1/WS2 infusion workstation also include built-in drug libraries offering a collection of more than 1,000 medicines and customized program for faster and more convenient parameter settings, which helps reduce errors by pre-setting recommended dose limits and assist medical staff to administer the proper dose of medicine.

Moreover, HAWK-WS2 infusion workstation can store up to 450,000 pieces of historical infusion information to better help nurses do the infusion analysis.

By connecting the infusion workstation to Hawkemed’s HK-M1000 infusion monitoring software, nurses can monitor the infusion status of all pumps around the patient ward on one single screen which greatly improve the efficiency of infusion monitoring and management. Furthermore, the HK-M1000 infusion monitoring software can also be connected the hospital HIS/CIS system to achieve the standardized and efficient infusion management and improve the level of medical informatization of the department and even the whole hospital.

For ensuring patient safety, Hawkmed has also implemented several technical improvements.

Each pump of HAWK-WS1/WS2 infusion workstation are paired with double pressure sensors and a numeric-graphic indicator which accurately monitor and indicate the pressure level. The infusion will be interrupted at once while there is detected occlusion. The dual-sensor air bubble detection design helps to detect air-in-line promptly and indicate infusion completion at once, enhancing patient safety during the infusion therapy.

The anti-free flow design can prevent the free-flow of medication by automatically closing the tube with the anti-free flow clip when the door is opened. Additionally, the audible alarm, along with the visual alarm displayed on both the top of the infusion station and on the pumps, helps ensure that any issues are immediately brought to the attention of medical staff.

For more information about Hawkmed HAWK-WS1/WS2 Infusion Workstation, please visit our product page.

It is a general trend to build smart digital hospitals with the help of advanced medical devices and the Internet. In recent years, many hospitals have gradually introduced infusion workstations to manage special infusion medical behaviors safely, standardly, and intensively. It is believed that infusion workstations with the centralized infusion management function will gradually replace the original use of independent infusion pumps in ICU wards on a large scale in the next few years. Hawkmed is always leading the way to research and develop advanced healthcare products across the medical equipment spectrum.