An interventional study of Removal of needle with using ANDYs in Needle Stick Injuries, sponsored by Samsung Medical Center. Completed at 1 site in Korea, Republic of. Open to participants aged 19 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2019-12-03.
Sponsored by Samsung Medical Center · Not applicable, Interventional, and Other
Evaluate the efficiency of adopting the automated needle processing system by evaluating efficiency, usability and safety when using ANDY(Automatic Needle Destroyer). Install ANDY(Automatic Needle Destroyer) in the ER, and evaluate the system by comparing the efficiency of the work, usability, actual decrease ratio of needlestick injury between using the automated needle processing system and not using it.
Background The most frequent occupational injury is exposure to blood and fluid by needlestick injury. Needlestick injuries can result in serious infections if appropriate infection control measures are not taken promptly.
Since the use of safety devices are not popularly used, the needle and syringe are mostly taken into pieces by physical ways. There are some cases that the needle and syringe is not separated, and the entire syringe can be put directly into the waste container. There is also a problem that it takes a lot of time and efforts to remove needles from syringes. In addition, the existing safety mechanism is physical methods such as pulling out the needle, damaging or cutting the needle, or using heat to the needle, or melting it by using chemicals. It is a semi-manual since you have to wait holding the syringe during the process, and it is inconvenient to use considering a busy medical environment.
Therefore, we developed ANDY(Automatic Needle Destroyer) that can be introduced at a convenient and reasonable cost, and try to objectively evaluate the utility of ANDY in a clinical environment.
Intervention :
6-1) 1st Week : Removal of needle with existing method
6-2) 2nd week: Prepare for using ANDYs
6-3) 3rd week : Removal of needle with using ANDYs
30 studies on the registry are indexed under Needlestick Injuries; 3 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 129 is above the median of 67 across 25 interventional studies indexed under Needlestick Injuries.
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Exclusion Criteria:
•A subject who did not agree with this study
Participants will remove needles from syringes with the existing method like they are already doing. (Record the time required for the needle removal procedure by photographing during 24 hours/7 days.)
Participants will remove needles from syringes with Andy. (Record the time required for the needle removal procedure by photographing during 24 hours/7 days.)
Device: Removal of needle with using ANDYs
1. ANDY will be provided to medical staffs to be use in removal needles from syringes during 7 days 2. Record the time required for the needle removal procedure by photographing the needle removal procedure during 24 hours/7 days. Identify the number of syringes processed by ANDY. 3. After 3rd week, do survey and interview 15 people selected by the convenient sample method. By interviewing, collect information of overall experience after using automated needle processing system, how long their hospital working experience is, and other information or systems the interviewees felt those are necessary.
Time Efficiency: Comparing the time required to remove the needle from syringe for assessing change in time between using automated needle processing system or not
- Comparison of the required time(second) to remove the needle between using the automated needle processing system and not using it.
Time frame: [1st Week] : Removal of needle in accordance with existing method, [3rd week] : using a ANDY(automated needle processing system)
Usability: Comparing the SUS score for assessing the change in usability between using automated needle processing system or not
- Comparison of the usability between using the automated needle processing system and not using it by doing survey after 1st week and 3rd week and Interview after 3rd week( Scoring by the answers of the Questionnaire of Satisfaction (SUS) and adjective score)
Time frame: [1st Week] : Removal of needle in accordance with existing method, [3rd week] : using a ANDY(automated needle processing system)
Safety: Comparing the number of accidents of the needlestick injuries between using automated needle processing system or not
- Comparison of the number of accidents of the needlestick injuries between using the automated needle processing system and not using it.
Time frame: [1st Week] : Removal of needle in accordance with existing method, [3rd week] : using a ANDY(automated needle processing system)
Plan to share: Undecided
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