This article delves into the innovative application of mobile computing and Internet of Things (IoT) technology in safety management of emergency intravenous infusion in modern hospitals. Through a practical case study of Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University (specializing in neurological and geriatric disease diagnosis and treatment), this article demonstrates how its deployed mobile computer-based emergency intravenous infusion management system overcomes the safety and efficiency challenges of the traditional manual verification model. It provides a key digital solution for enhancing medication safety, optimizing nursing processes, and improving the patient experience.

User Background

Xuanwu Hospital is a tertiary general hospital affiliated with Capital Medical University, founded in 1958. The hospital primarily diagnoses and treats neurological and geriatric diseases, including cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Additionally, the hospital provides services in medical care, education, scientific research, prevention, healthcare, and rehabilitation.

Challenges

In the emergency intravenous infusion room—a core scenario with high patient volume and fast pace—the traditional method relying on manual verbal calls for patient identity and medication verification faces severe challenges during peak hours. The daily infusion volume can exceed 200 times. High patient density and a noisy environment make the method of relying solely on nurses calling out names for verification highly susceptible to errors due to patients mishearing or responding incorrectly, posing significant safety risks. Simultaneously, high work pressure and potential staff shortages increase the complexity of on-site management and the risk of nursing errors.

Before introducing the digital infusion management system, the daily operations of the emergency intravenous infusion room at Xuanwu Hospital faced the following specific safety and management bottlenecks:

• Reliance on manual patient identity verification poses prominent safety hazards: Before infusion, nurses verify patient identity by calling out names. In noisy environments, patients may mishear or respond incorrectly, leading to the wrong patient confirming medication not intended for them, constituting a serious medication safety risk.
• Chaos during peak hours leads to low management efficiency: Facing a daily potential demand exceeding 200 infusions, patient crowding and frequent calls can easily lead to on-site disorder. This environment increases the work pressure on nursing staff and management difficulty, indirectly raising the probability of various errors.

By deploying the emergency intravenous infusion management system integrated with Seuic mobile computers, Xuanwu Hospital achieved multiple values in patient safety, nursing efficiency, and management:

• Fundamentally ensures medication safety: The system achieves precise matching by scanning patient and medication barcodes via mobile terminals, completely eliminating medication errors caused by manual verbal verification mistakes, thereby fortifying the patient safety baseline.
• Significantly optimizes processes and improves nursing efficiency: The digital verification and call process replaces inefficient manual shouting, simplifying and standardizing the infusion workflow, reducing unnecessary workload for nurses, and enhancing overall work efficiency.
• Builds an information-based, responsive call and service system: The integrated call function enables nurses to quickly locate and respond to patient needs, greatly improving service response speed and patient satisfaction.
• Achieves convenient, transparent lean management: The system automatically records all operations and data, making the management of infusion area seat arrangements, patient flow, etc., simple and efficient. Simultaneously, it provides transparent and reliable data support for performance evaluation and data-driven management decisions.

Xuanwu Hospital adopted a deeply integrated "smart hardware + IoT platform" solution for emergency intravenous infusion.

• Deploy mobile computing terminals to reshape the core workflow: Nurses in the infusion room are equipped with Seuic mobile computers. Before medication preparation and infusion administration, nurses use the device to scan the patient's wristband barcode and the medication bag's barcode. The system automatically performs matching verification, allowing the next step to proceed only when the information is completely identical. This technically enforces the principle of "the right patient, the right medication."
• Deeply integrate with the medical IoT to build a closed-loop safety network: The mobile computers are deeply integrated with the hospital's existing medical IoT platform. This system not only performs the verification function but also carries tasks such as information-based calling, task scheduling, and real-time data reporting, constructing a full-process, closed-loop safety and management network spanning from medication verification to patient service and backend management. This significantly enhances the nursing quality and operational management level of the emergency intravenous infusion area.