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Nurse-Invented Product Increases Patient Safety and Care Giver Satisfaction

The Beata Clasp is a simple device designed to hold medical tubing at the bedside while preventing contamination, dislodgment, and entanglement.

Chicago, IL (April 25, 2022) – Lenore Henning, a registered nurse, invented a product to hold and organize medical tubing. The device, named The Beata Clasp, keeps tubing in place and also helps patients to become involved in their care.

Henning stated, “I came up with the idea after nursing at the bedside and continually seeing tubing slide down the bedrail and become impinged.” The Beata Clasp is a latex-free, soft foam clasp with three to four grooves for tubing. It fits over a variety of medical equipment, namely bedrails and IV poles. Nurses and patients observe the functionality of the device as it holds call lights, nasal oxygen tubing, intravenous lines, and a variety of monitoring device cables. Hospital risk managers see potential for a decrease in infections caused by contaminated lines and a reduction in trips and falls caused by patient tubing.

Henning's invention has the ability to hold tubing in place on the bedrail and organize lines so that they can be easily traced from the patient to the source by medical staff. According to the Emergency Care Research Institute (ECRI), clean tracing of tubing is the best way to prevent potentially deadly tubing misconnections. “I am able to focus on my patient's needs each time I enter the room and spend less time untangling tubing at the bedside,” stated an Intensive Care Unit Nurse. Patient safety is the utmost goal of all involved with a patient's care. With patient safety in mind, Lenore Henning, the inventor and bedside nurse of 45 years, developed the product with her daughter, Anne Henning, who is also an RN. The product's slogan reads: “Bringing Safety Back to the Bedside."

"After taping medicine cups and tongue depressors to the bedrail, this product is heaven sent,” said Mary Fuller, a traveling nurse. “I only wish it was on every patient's bedrail.”

This is a patient safety device that organizes the multitude of lines every patient has during their hospital stay. This single-patient use device is manufactured in Addison, Illinois.

From https://www.mcknights.com/news/ask-the-care-expert-untangling-a-patients-tubes-and-wires/ :

Ask the care expert: untangling a patient’s tubes and wires

SHERRIE DORNBERGER

As nurses in skilled care units, we have been coming upon a problem I never thought we would have. Our residents now who are very ill have several tubes and wires coming from the resident over the side of the bed. The tubes tend to get tangled, causing the nurses to spend extra time to separate them instead of tending to the resident directly. Do you have any suggestions?

Starting in long-term care in 1975, I never thought I would see the day when our residents would have as many cords, wires and tubes coming from them as patients in the acute care facilities. I have had to face that problem myself when recovering from a severe illness. I had the oxygen, picc lines, and IVs getting tangled up—the “spaghetti syndrome.” Because I was doing my own picc line care at home, having these all tied up together would make me crazy.

I found a product called the “Beata Clasp.” The Beata Clasp is a foam-like soft pliable clasp that has a split in its undercarriage, which allows it to open and mold itself to the bed rail or half rail. The top has three or four hole openings.

There are different sizes available that will hold three or four different tubes or wires.

It usually takes a nurse to develop such a great product, and this is no exception. Nurses often talk about ideas we have for products but rarely follow through. But thanks to Lenore Henning, who developed this product, I can honestly say it will save nursing time and accidents by keeping lines from laying on the floor, preventing nurses from taping lines or wires to the bed, and allowing the tracing of lines back to their origin.

Who uses it:

Hospitals, intensive care units (ICU), medical-surgical units, neonatal units, labor and delivery units, emergency rooms, pediatric units, outpatient surgery centers, dialysis centers, home health, hospice, private home use, sleep apnea centers, nursing homes, quick care centers, and in ambulances.

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