Manikin Arm for IV Injection Training
Project Summary
This is a manikin arm for nursing students at Duke’s Center for Nursing Discovery to practice IV injection. There are two injection sites, one on the forearm and another on the back of the hand. The main focus of our project was to improve these two injection sites to make the training experience more realistic. This included making skin that felt more like human skin and did not show obvious holes where people had previously injected, making sure the veins were anatomically accurate, and making a “soft frame” material to simulate flesh.
Project Details
The device is made of up four main components: the skin, the soft frame, the hard frame, and the tubing. The hard frame comes from a Nasco © LifeForm IV injection arm and is the main base of the arm that the rest of the components rest in and on. The skin at the two injection sites is made of Dragon Skin, which is a silicone rubber material. The soft frame is a substance that simulates flesh and rests inside of the hard frame, underneath the skin. The soft frame is made of EcoFlex 00-30 in the forearm region, and EcoFlex 00-50 in the hand region. The tubing also comes from a Nasco LifeForm IV injection arm, and is shaped to be anatomically accurate.
