As a common clinical treatment technique, nasogastric tube insertion plays an important role in assisting in disease diagnosis and treatment, and promoting patient recovery. Nasogastric tubes currently used in clinical practice are packaged individually without accompanying sterile materials, hence additional materials need to be prepared before operation, which is complicated and prone to omission, consumes clinical manpower, and increases the proportion of departmental consumption. The operator needs to hold the nasogastric tube with one hand and place it with the other hand during operation, the lack of auxiliary tool for uniformly controlling the placement of gastric tubes may easily lead to tube failure due to patient intolerance, agitation, or uneven force exerted by the operator, and improper force may even result in violent tube placement, leading to adverse outcomes such as mucosal bleeding and aspiration into the airway. Medical staff of intensive care unit of department of infectious diseases of Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology have designed a nasogastric tube auxiliary pushing device and an intubation kit to overcome the above problems, and obtaining National Utility Model Patent of China (patent number: ZL 2024 2 0300856.X). The device consists of two parts: a nasogastric tube auxiliary pushing device and a nasogastric tube insertion kit. Nasogastric tube auxiliary pushing device mainly consists of a nasogastric tube with guide wire, a circular wire harness, and a booster base with a pushing element. The tube insertion kit includes sterile treatment trays, main placement slots, and other operational accessory slots. The new nasogastric tube auxiliary pushing device and tube insertion kit integrates packaging and portable design, providing stable and uniform assistance for safe insertion of nasogastric tubes by a single person, which is able to reduce the occurrence of complications, ensure patient safety, improve patient comfort, and reduce occupational exposure risks, making it suitable for clinical promotion.
Intubation, Gastrointestinal/methods* ; Equipment Design ; Humans

As a new respiratory support technique, high-flow nasal cannula oxygen therapy (HFNC) has been widely used in clinical practice in recent years. During HFNC treatment, due to the long time and continuous wearing of nasal stopper and fasteners on the patient face, it is easy to cause medical device-related pressure injury on multiple facial skin. Moreover, when the patient's position changes greatly, because there is no good fixed design at the HFNC nasal stopper, it is easy to shift or turn the nasal stopper outward, causing abnormal ventilation and failure to achieve the purpose of clinical oxygen therapy. To overcome above problems, medical staff in the intensive care unit of department of infectious diseases, Tongji Hospital Tongji Medical College of HUST designed a new type of decompression fixator to prevent HFNC face pressure injury, and obtained national utility model patent (ZL 2022 2 0754626.1). The integrated design structure of the device has the functions of decompression of facial skin and fixation of nasal stopper, which can ensure the effect of oxygen therapy and improve the oxygen therapy experience and patient comfort, which is suitable for clinical promotion.
Humans ; Cannula ; Pressure Ulcer/prevention & control* ; Oxygen Inhalation Therapy/methods* ; Oxygen ; Decompression ; Respiratory Insufficiency/therapy* ; Noninvasive Ventilation