Brush your teeth and then rinse with the same tool. What a great invention! Here’s the inventor website.
Gadgets
The “Wee-Sight Translluminator” a.k.a. lamp to find veins
This is the first time we see this gadget and it’s helpful. It’s just a lamp. What’s even more helpful is that it makes the IV specialist more comfortable. Andy does well with IV specialists that know what they are doing. Wee Sight Transilluminator can help to accurately locate veins for improved insertion of an…
The vein viewer
Great Gadget! For those hard to find veins. Every pediatric clinic and hospital should have one of this. The VeinViewer™ Imaging System utilizes near infrared light and patented technologies to illuminate subcutaneous vasculature by imaging their location on the surface of the skin. Hailed by TIME Magazine as one of the year’s “Coolest Inventions”. It…
Device that extracts as much as triple the amount of stem cells from umbilical cords
Today they insert a needle to a vein of the umbilical cord and let gravity do the job, blood flows through a small tube to a plastic bag. The problem is that only a small amount of blood (and stem cells) are collected. If they take long blood starts thickening or cuagulating and there’s also…
Cool pump
I received an email with information about Intra Pump Infusion Systems a company that specializes in personal medical pumps. This is a picture of the pump that infused Sofia’s stem cells into Andy: This is a picture of the “Crono Pump” (actual size 1:1): Cool! More information via intrapump.com here.
Portable vein finder
Andy had thousands of blood tests and I’ve been following technology that helps doctors, nurses, phlebotomists and patients to find veins faster and more accurately. Back in May 27, 2005 I found the Vein entry indicator device. And back in October 7, 2004 I found the Vein Contrast Enhancer. Today I received news about this…
Oreck + Wiva-Vac
Andy and I used to play with the suction machine in his hospital room during his transplant. The official use of that suctioning machine is to clear pieces of tissue and blood coming out of the patient’s mouth when they get mucositis. We had another use for the machine.. We used it almost on a…
The pacifier bottle
I tried this once with Andy’s pacifier and a oxygen tube in the hospital when Andy was not eating due to one of his bad stomach infections. Now there’s the “pacifeeder”! A hands free baby bottle which promotes semi-upright feeding. Nipple stays full of liquid. Nipple won’t leak. Bottle attaches to any car seat, stroller,…
The Wheel of Responsibility
Every parent should have one of this. Or maybe not… WHEEL OF RESPONSIBILITY
Gammaglobulin infusion costs
Following the NY Times article “When Health Insurance Is Not a Safeguard“, here’s very good advice regarding gamma globulin infusions I received via email. Gammaglobulin prices vary greatly depending on how much insurance pays, the number of grams used and the place of the infusion. The least expensive option is to have the product shipped…