There Must Be A Better Way?That’s the question Dr. Steve Bierman asked himself after a 46-year old male patient went into ventricular tachycardia and required a lidocaine IV. Subsequently, the patient became very unstable and the IV, which was secured with tape and undergoing considerable movement, infiltrated the surrounding tissue, requiring Dr. Bierman to remove and restart the IV. During the course of this stressful, clinical patient situation, Dr. Bierman was accidentally stuck by the blood-filled IV needle. A few months later, Dr. Bierman was diagnosed with Hepatitis B.It was during this critical-care event that Dr. Bierman knew there must be a better, easier way to secure IV catheters; to prevent movement that could lead to complications and to reduce restarts which take up critical care time and present the risk for needlesticks. “I began with a set of drawings which depicted a non-tape requiring, micromotion arresting, plastic on plastic, mechanically locked device which aggressively adhered to the skin. I developed this vision into a prototype that eventually earned patent protection for my unique StatLock®Stabilization Device.” Today, the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio of stabilization devices – StatLock® Stabilization Devices – is used by more healthcare institutions than any other mechanical IV catheter stabilization device offering. “StatLock® Stabilization Devices are to the prevention of IV therapy complications what sterile antisepsis and sterile technique have become to the prevention of catheter related blood-stream infections.” - Dr. Steve Bierman, father of mechanical stabilization, inventor of the StatLock® Stabilization Device |
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