The Hospital's IT Staff hates me
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- Опубліковано 8 лип 2024
- I always try to appreciate the neat little bits of technology that go unnoticed. In my hospital room there are dozens of neat things you might not even know exist, like the ability of the IV pump to detect how much resistance there is in the line!
Just keep Red Shirt Jeff away from that in-room zip-line!
Oh and, since I'm in the hospital right now, my normal videos are on hold-I'll be back soon!
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regular ppl: omg no hospital again
Jeff: now would you look at these cute µC- based IV pumps
Next video: a Doom port for CareFusion.
The next person that will occupy this room will have all upgraded equipment. LOL.
🤣
Alaris Pumps are very sensitive. Do Not Touch is right.
@ I'd like an "overclocked" one if it is morphine lol :D
I hope you feel better soon! When I was younger I was in hospital for a broken jaw and when I woke up after surgery I was attached to all kinds of monitoring machines. I had a very sore throat and wanted some water, but no staff was to be seen and I couldn't talk loudly. I figured out that one of the machines monitored my breathing and just held my breath for a while. The device started beeping very loud and alarming, all the staff came running in seconds and I was like "Hi, I'm awake, can I have some water please?" I'm sure they hated me a little bit for that... (and rightfully so, but I couldn't think of any other way :) )
Hahaha, when the call button isn't fast enough :D
Man that's brilliant! 99% of people would never have thought of that.
Hilarious!
No they were probably just annoyed. What really gets them running to you is when your heart rate stops.
Brilliant!
As a Biomed Tech, I have been repairing and maintaining this kind of equipment for over 16 years. Love when people give my side of of electronics and hospitals some attention.
As a biomed too, we know IT would never touch these lol.
@@danschilling5863 1000%. The best is when you have to put a ticket into IT for some network issues on any biomed device and they close the request telling you to contact biomed...
@@AJAX_3D HAHA 🤣 except won't allow biomed to have IT access.
@@danschilling5863 oh yeah keep them as far away from these as possible. IT people have an inborn talent for messing up medical Equpment
As a former BMET who is now a field engineer and has to deal with IT at various hospitals I hate most of them. Oh you want to connect an EKG cart to our wireless network. That will be 5 weeks before we white lost the MAC address and still won’t give you the settings to connect it. Once has a Naval hospital ask me if we could have CAC readers on the carts to login. Sorry medical equipment is about 10 years behind modern technology because it can’t just be rebooted if it fails on a patient.
As a nurse (who's a St. Louisian that works at a hospital affiliated with the one you're in, no less), a fellow Crohnie, and somebody who worked in IT before changing careers to nursing, this video was perfect for me. I know the frustrations experienced by all sides involved, lol. Feel better soon, Jeff!
Haha, that's like every possible connection, like this video was made for you!
I'm always surprised by the variety of people I meet in nursing, and techs who are on their way to something else but spending some time helping patients and trying to do some great things in life. Love the dedication almost every healthcare provider shows, especially in the face of hospital admin and insurance companies throwing them out to the wolves a lot.
I'm also a nurse and love technology... except when it's made poorly (like most laptops these days with everything soldered >_
Up next: the 10GB/s IV-pump cluster! - Stay strong, I hope you get better soon again!
Installing RaspIVian for better performance and easy monitoring over the www!
GB=Gallon Blood
@@kayburcky7146 Oh man. 10 GB/s would blow your arm off then
@@jordanmalfara1501 lol blood everywhere
"Review: Raspberry Pi Power over Veins HAT"
I'm a grad student at mayo clinic doing imaging research, you're just scratching the surface of the cool stuff we've built for medicine. Get well quickly, we're all rooting for you.
Oh man don't get me started on the cool stuff I see in the flouoroscopy, CT, MRI, and X-ray rooms!
Anywhere you go that you have to clip on a dosimeter is a fun time (in one way) :)
@@JeffGeerling One of the coolest projects I came across, figuring out ways to collect realtime data from all these machines like the one in your video to do statistical regressions on them on a large scale.
Med tech is fascinating. Yeah FAANG gets all the attention but there's so many less glamorous (and unfortunately less paying) industries for us nerds that are, at the end of the day, probably more satisfying and possibly less stress too.
@@JeffGeerling wait til they give you the iv for the ct scan that has contrast in it...it warms you up in places you do not expect from the iodine.... 😁
@@walterwhite2270 Fun story: I have had at least 20 CT scans (yay for lifetime radiation dose...), and never had an issue with contrast until two weeks ago. Now they won't give me contrast anymore. Ah well.
@@vinnytube1001 funny you should mention that me and a mate who work at the hospital have been looking at that project as there isn't much happening in the UK around that.
Jeff's new business: Open source, budget friendly hospital equipment. 💸
Not possible. All this stuff has to meet extremely specific (and often old) requirements and be certified by people who will fail anything that's not "normal" .
@@user2C47 r/woooosh
@@user2C47 I’ll just do it myself 🤷♂️
Also, it has to be extremely secure in some regards so it cannot be hacked externally and have someone cause an infusion to go haywire potentially resulting in death.
I would love for that to exist!
No one:
Jeff: On our next adventure, we are doing a Hospital Safari while I'm being treated.
Me: Jeff, the point of a hospital is to relax. Not take apart the equipment taking care of you.
If my body can move, it wants to tinker! :D
On the other hand, being in a healthy mental state helps with bodily health. Staying mentally stimulated definitely contributes to mental health.
@@JeffGeerling oh I'm stealing that magnificent phrase
@@JeffGeerling Red Jeff has already figured out how to disable the beeping thing.
For some people, taking apart the stuff in your room, IS relaxing.
I had to stay in a hospital recently waiting to have my gallbladder removed and the same machine started beeping at 2 AM because the medicine bag was empty. I called the nurse and after 30 mins of sitting there with a beeping IV I said “I’m in IT. This isn’t the first weird device I have had to surprise troubleshoot “ so I googled the manual, learned more than I cared to about the machine, shut the thing up and went back to sleep lol
This is the way
Courage!
This is amazing
as some may say
Outstanding move
At least you are not the patient who got board and decided to weave the leads on her Telemetry pack. Those fine guage wires do not take kindly to being tied in knots.
Normal patients: (uncomfortably asks) am I allowed to plug my charger in?
Jeff: (presses a button with the full untempered faith of god) lets just reset that.
Get well Jeff!! Here is my story: I was in the hospital two years ago. Almost four weeks, of which I was in ICU for one (after the OH surgery). When they got me to the room I was awoken by the beeps, mind you there were a lot (but not as many as in ICU) of pumps going on the first three, four days. The nurse in charge explained the procedure. I was not to press buttons until I was further in my recovery, the only button I was allowed to press was the call button. Five days later I was allowed to reset the pump (I only had three hanging off of me) and press the call button. It is funny how you are in a ward with three other guys and they really love that you can turn off the bloody beeping.
There's a button that says "silence alarm" or something like that on it. The nursing staff really doesn't like it when you touch the IV machines for obvious reasons. It used to be that if the thing woke you up and you hit the button yourself, probably nobody would know and you could just go back to sleep. Now these things are all centrally monitored so if a nurse sees the alarm and comes to check on it and the alarm has already been cleared they'll tell you not to mess with the machine.
@@jong3122 Yep!
I hate button pushers. Does not matter if it's the IV pump... or the nurse call button. 😅🤣
I'm not room service, but some people act like I am. lol
I'm an Anesthesia Tech and have lots of experience with those Alaris pumps(channels is what we call them), and the brains too(If you don't keep them plugged in the batteries go bad pretty fast). Mine and most other hospitals are soon going to Baxter IV pumps in a few months and the Alaris pumps will probably be on sale in the used market for next to nothing.
The IT staff really have no connection to the pumps other than running a server that communicates with them for certain protocols. It's the Biomed staff that will hate you. lol
Hope you get out of the hospital soon, if you haven't already that is. Try and go for walks as much as you can to prevent pneumonia. Lots of bugs in the hospital just waiting to get you.
I got out yesterday! Back at home resting now.
They have different channels like the regular IV pump, epidural, and PCA (patient-controlled analgesia).
We have been using the Baxter Sigma pumps for almost 10 years, they are small and mighty. Very reliable. That Alaris design is getting old, we were using those at my last job around before 2005.
@@kneemeister It is just the software that is updated.
I'm head of Clinical Engineering here in the UK (I guess what you guys in the States would call lead Biomed?). BD and Baxter pumps really don't have the presence here that they used to, that Alaris setup is overly expensive, stupidly expensive consumables and the software has had numerous safety alerts. Baxter aren't much better. There are some great European manufactured "smart" pumps that are far better. Glad you're home, hospitals are dangerous places!
I spent a week in the hospital and your face when the beeping went off was exactly what I felt
If you know, you know!
When I had my appendix removed I kept talking and commenting about the equipment around me because I found It so interesting. Eventually a nurse came in and asked me to quiet down because I was making other patients uncomfortable
"Yeah, that patient over there. Give him the sleeping pill."
@@JeffGeerling If I'm stuck in the hospital long-term, I'd happily take that sleeping pill. Makes the time go by faster lol.
well....in my case i had headphones, tablet and streaming service for video...
@@JeffGeerling It could be worse lol
The nurse's cocktail.... Ativan, Haldol, and Diphenhydramine (aka Benadryl, but we have a more potent injectable form. The drowsiness will ensue!) lol
Stay strong Jeff. We're all pulling for ya.
agree 100%
A few notes: “AC” in this instance actually refers to the antecubital fossa area. Alaris pumps are quite amazing to me. They can calculate down to the thousandths place for the amount of fluid infused. They can be integrated into the EMR to automatically chart the exact amount of fluid you received and even be automatically programmed via scanning the module and medication (reducing likelihood of medication errors). They are a little annoying that their downstream occlusion detection won’t automatically resume the infusion when the occlusion is resolved.
Unrelated, you might consider asking for candidacy information about a port placement if you’re frequently hospitalized and receiving IV fluids. They’re inserted into the chest and can be accessed pretty easily/reliably and, usually, aren’t positionally dependent. Best of luck to you for a speedy recovery and hopefully no readmissions!
I've gotten close to that a couple times, but usually after a few visits things get resolved. This series of infections seems to be drawing itself out a bit longer, but there's hope that a new medication will help soon!
You could also ask for a midline or insurance catheter for longer hospital stays. Usually they’re ultrasound guided and have longer/ larger bore catheters that sit in a larger/ deeper vein and another benefit is that they can be used for lab draws as well as IV fluids or medications.
Occlusion is my least favorite word in the world. I'm always the annoying person who puts the mute button on until they lock me out of the system with the password. But it's usually some dumbass nurse that has decided to put a line in the crook of your elbow joint and not in your hand... So i blame them...
@@user-nf8wg4lc4j I have heard that they can be pretty uncomfortable and painful, especially during insertion and removing them.
@@orestes1984 I’ve personally not had any issues with it in the inside of my elbow, other than being uncomfortable, definitely prefer it to the hand though.
When I was in hospital some years ago, despite being a little out of it mentally, my exploration of the hospital tech helped kick my brain into working again. Even helped them with a public wifi issue they had in the ward. Nothing as sophisticated as that though.
Awesome! When I spent 11 days in hospital a few years ago, like you, I explored every inch of my room and every gadget with power going to it. Thankfully, because I focused on being as good and cooperative a patient as I could, they were generous enough to tell me all about all the devices and teach me some of those fun and useful little tricks to managing them. Great video Jeff. Love seeing you again.
I think a prerequisite to being a good patient is having a great relationship with the nurses and techs (and housekeeping, and foodservice, etc.) who help keep me alive and well!
Even if I'm not doing so great, I try to make it so the hospital staff knows how much I appreciate their help, since I know many patients don't have the 'patience' to do so!
@@JeffGeerling I do the same. Not everyone does, so you may as well be kind to people. It never hurts, and the staff are usually grateful.
🙂 i though i might be the only person played around in icu
@@JeffGeerling This is indeed the secret : give kindness to get kindness. I used to take care of a wounded warrior (gone 16 months now 😭) who was hospitalized about 4 or 5 times a year for heart trouble. Whenever he could be nice despite the pain, the staff always said thanks in little ways. Extra dessert? Midnight snack? No problem…….. Miss the humor, please get well soon!!! 🤕
@@ikestoddard2458 Pretty much!
It's like the joke goes... Be nice to me, I'm a nurse. Needles and catheters come in different sizes and I get to choose!
As an IT specialist, I too look at all the tech in my room at the hospital. I get surprised when i see Windows XP on some machines. I had to run on a treadmill to measure my heart and the entire system was running Windows XP. I get told by the staff to not touch as well mouhahahahah
I used to design these things a lifetime ago.
Lot of ring timers made with a newly introduced funky 8-pin IC called NE555, while the "brain" of the machines was made with many TTL gates, counters, and 7447 for the display (the 4511 drivers were too delicate at the time)...
Yup, Lots of XP, software and OS can't be update without it going through FDA approval first.
See the same thing with FAA. Early 2000s AF base I was on got 'new' computerized digital voice recorders for tower radios. Intel 286 or 386 running Windows 3.1 not even 3.11 and used DAT tapes 🙃 It was replacing several 2" reel to reel recorders made in the 50s or 60s. Radios had been upgraded from crystal controlled OSC to 70s tech digital PLL some time in the 90s I believe. Took 20 years at the time for any new equipment to get through FAA testing and approval.
@@rayoflight62 74xx TTL is nostalgic
As a Biomedical Equipment Tech, we get to take care of all that stuff, Yes a lot of diagnostic systems are just now switching to Windows 10 most are still using Windows 7. Medical Equipment has to go thru FDA, so the update process is slow. Its often easier for the Manufactures to wait for the new model to switch to a later operation system than to go thru the approval process.
All our OR patient monitors are running on Linux, GE -Datex Ohmedia, neglected to make time adjustment on them front facing, so we have to plug in a keyboard and log into the Linux backend every time we have to adjust the clock for DST and back.
In one day I can Calibrate a traction device, measure outputs on a Defib, and on a really bad day disassemble an OR table or Stretcher that has blood contamination that house keeping cant get to. Its a fun and always something new job. I have been doing it since 1990 when I graduated from The United States Army Medical Equipment and Optical School at Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in Aurora Co. (now the University of Colorado Medical Center) So IT doesn't hate you, We are Healthcare Technology Management, Biomed, or Clinical Engineering depending on the hospital. Most of us prefer to be called Biomeds.
Every patient in hospitals : "Can I move my bed?"
Jeff : (casually resetting every single thing in the room)
Edit : Wow, that's a lot of likes. Thanks! 🙂
for the amount americans pay for healthcare, you should be able to take the room home!
Haha after a while in the hospital you do become familiar with some of these machines, after having to call the nurse at 3am to reset it for the tenth time youre going to figure out how to reset the pump yourself. that's just how things go
Just wait until you go to a nice hospital and say "Can I move my bed?". They'll turn that shit on and have it drive you to your next unit.
Just because you acknowledge it doesn't make it any better lol
@@S_t_even that moment when I catch you changing your dosage 😣🤣
I had to spend a month and a half in the hospital with my son after he was born. I wasn't allowed to stay with him the entire time so I made an odd request... "Can I talk to a tech or repair guy if they feel like it?" - They found a nice middle aged guy who took care of a lot of the tech infrastructure and he was willing to just talk with me and take my mind off of a lot of bad stuff. I learned a lot about hospital systems and tech, and how difficult it can be in even the most well funded hospitals to keep up with changes. I really appreciate that person for taking the time to talk to someone who was out of his mind with worry at the time.
Hope the infection gets under control soon. Looking forward to your recovery, Jeff.
It'll be a bit of time to take effect, but I finally got scheduled for a new treatment that should help!
@@JeffGeerling this is the best news of today! Get well soon Jeff, we're with you. ♥
It´s so nice to see your still yourself even being sick like this :) Get well soon and thanks for sharing.
I'm a paramedic and this was SO interesting to me - really cool to see how our two worlds intersect, and such an interesting observation too!
I hope you well and your hospital stay is okay Best wished from the Uk
It’s horrible you have to go through so much. Thank you for all your hard work, I love your channel!
Fellow Crohn's Disease haver and chronic "touch button" sufferer. Hope things get better for you soon, Jeff 💖
ooh there is a name for the "touch button" thing, man I didn't know that... I will tell em I will get allergic reactions if I can't touch anything so they better teach me how to turn the alarm off in the middle of the night or I will reprogram it to play doom sounds all day long when I leave next time
Jeff appreciate the efforts you put in your videos. Wishing you recovery, health is always first.
My dad was an engineer for CareFusion (retired). Can confirm that the engineering that goes into those devices is pretty interesting.
Best wishes for a speedy recovery!
So sorry you have to deal with all that , Jeff. Keep strong and making great videos
Hi Jeff,
Just a quick note of caution:
Do not assume that random RJ45 ports on the hospital wall are ethernet ports that you could run wireshark on. There will be a burnt smell from your laptop, and "it has a builtin ethernet port!" will no longer be a cool thing about your laptop.
Additionally, at least at the hospital where I used to work, they actually had great port security, and were able to account for each port pretty well. It was fairly hard to get my VPN working through their network.
@@JeffGeerling now do they have 802.1x where if you don’t auth you’re SOL
@@scj643 it can still work if you piggyback on a legitimate device that's already authenticated by spoofing it's MAC and sending from the same port. There's a product called the ringtail basilisk which does that
@@JeffGeerling well this... "to get my VPN working" so I take it was:
Hospital Security: 0
Jeff "Genious" Geerling: 1
@@hansdampfig1245 you might not want to screw with hospital networks. Though unlikely you don't want to know someone died because no alert had gone of because you were downloading game of thrones and used up the bandwidth. Or you VPN confused some routing.
This was in my recs and I'm not sure why but, I hope you feel better. My mom was a RN, and both of us have had our fair share of GI issues too. I appreciate your humor in brazenly touching all the equipment around you. The hospital can be a scary, intimidating place. I'm glad that you're able to make light of it.
So much respect for you, dude!
Wish you a fast recovery!
This is exactly what happens in my sci-fi novel! The nurses keep finding him poking at the medical equipment so the give him a little something to make him very sleepy lol. It's called Chromaspace.
You know you're getting a little too annoying when the nurses start suggesting sleep aids lol.
Is the novel done? Where can we get it?
Stay strong my dude. We're all pulling for you.
Hope you feel better soon! I’ve never done anything near as interesting or cool as what you do (pihole setup is the only thing i have), yet I’ve always loved all your videos and personality. Best of luck and stay strong!
Jeff, my heart goes out to you and your family. I've had my fair share of hospital stay and there is nothing I dread more. You and the family are in my prayers.
Jeff, you are a dope personality. Creating content out of your misery! But still making sure it is informative is another level. Hats off mate, Get well soon.
I actually helped build that hospital from the IT side (I can tell by the view out the window) and since it's only a couple of years old, I can tell you exactly what a regular med surge patient room costs to build..and it ain't cheap!!! ICU rooms would blow your mind. Hope you get to feeling better!!!
Thank you for doing such a nice job-Barnes West is a great little hospital!
All the best to you and yours sir! Feel better soon. You’re a BOSS and we need you.
My very best wishes for a speedy recovery!
I feel for you man, the constant hospital visits that come with crohn's are never fun. The technology that goes into these machines are so incredible but go unnoticed, thanks for the cool vid!
Only a true blue dyed in the wool technologist can make a hospital stay informative and interesting.
Stay strong, be well and get home soon
i also spend alot of time in hospitals . i used to hate going but over time ive grown to appreciate the hospital and the people who work in them. cheers
Thanks for finding the positive and fascinating perspectives even in unfortunate situations. May your path bring you to improvement soon!
I received chemo treatment and other various types of medication through those pumps when I was hospitalized. Those pumps are amazing pieces of tech. They are very sensitive to air bubbles. I had a couple pumps that had to get switched out because the medication that was being used was prone to a lot of tiny bubbles.
Oh and I agree Jeff, those beeps, going off in the middle of the night, were annoying. It was especially irritating to have a nurse come in to take blood chemistry after the beeps woke me up haha. I quickly found where the volume was for those things.
Anyways, take care Jeff and I hope the stay went well.
Praying for you, Jeff.
I hope you are doing well and getting better every day! Sending positive vibes your way.
Thanks Jeff! This particular video shows so much as to who you really are: inquistive, intelligent and thoughtful. How is the rest of your family doing with all of this? Stay strong brother, Robert in Anacortes, WA
I was in for a week with heart stuff (heart was pinned at 130BPM the whole time - darn tiring). The constant beepy stuff drove me mental. All power to you my friend. I found the 'entertainment' system amusingly archaic. It had an ancient touchscreen tech that meant you had to properly jab at it for it to register presses, which meant that I ordered completely random food at times. The joy and surprise lol
Yeah, the touchscreen kiosk things are really annoying. And wow, 130 bpm, that does not feel great! Hope your heart is ticking a bit more normally now.
For the old school resistive touch screens, use the back of your finger nail to tap it. It tends to register far better than having to stab with the squishy bit of your fingertip.
@@JeffGeerling Thank you Jeff. Tachycardia is no fun at times! I still get blips, but nowhere near as bad. I hope you reach a better place soon.
As someone who has spent a significant amount of time in the hospital because of Crohn's, I'm pretty jealous of how nice your hospital room is.
This hospital was just rebuilt like 2 years ago, and it is very nicely built! I'm lucky because this is also the hospital where two of my doctors visit in addition to the much older downtown location.
Best wishes from London for a speedy recovery.
Jeff, I hope you're feeling better. The spirit to just try to enjoy whatever situation you're in is a life skill that many who haven't suffered have a difficult time appreciating. I truly wish there was a way I could do some of the suffering for you, I'm exceptionally adept at bearing punishment. Thank you for sharing your passions and character with all of us, as a lifetime tinkerer, I know how hard it must be to not be able to scratch the itch. Stay strong, the world needs you now more than ever. Next time, remember to bring an Ifixit kit :)
As someone who works in a hospital those IV pumps are the most annoying thing to patients and to the nurses. Some people have a hard time remembering that they have an IV or have weird positions they think are conformable and the IV pump go crazy. This can be annoying to nurses when their med passes are delayed because someone is beeping. P.S. you can turn down the volume so that the beeping is not so loud on the main screen.
EVS isn't fond of them either. They're a bitch to clean and sanitize.
All true, but for Pete's sake, don't touch them! I work in a clinical care setting and only RN's are allowed to touch them. You don't want to interrupt the delivery of medication or worse, mess up the rate of flow.
First thing I do as a patient is work out where the mute button is for occlusions, one of these days, like when I was in hospital with typhoid, I'll spaz out a machine and die as a result of a toxic potassium imbalance or something as a result. Don't you love patients like me?
Fellow Crohn's patient and wish you a speedy recovery. I know being trapped in bed at a hospital for days or weeks at a time is no fun. But hang in there!
The most common source of beeping is the occlusion alarm which is triggered if you kink the line but sometimes it's triggered by a poorly inserted cannula. The other is the end of infusion pre alarm which lets them know your infusion will run out soon and they need to stop it.
Yeah, air-in-line often means the end of the infusion. Or that the pump is being overly sensitive to a teeny tiny bubble that's just sitting in the line somewhere.
Rooting for your recovery to be as swift and painless as possible! We appreciate all that you do for the community. 🤘
Man do I hate needles! I don't know if I could deal with that. I usually faint when they draw blood. I'm a few years overdue for a physical. Anyway you do have a way of finding something interesting to talk about even in your situation. I hope you feel better soon.
I'm the same way, still look away and grip something tight every time I get an IV insertion or a blood draw. You'd think I could get past it after so many years and so many needles, but no...
And don't ask about the giant needle they had to use for one of the procedures this time. It was a huge mistake looking at it!
"Hey what does this button d-"
**dies**
Or... "Let's unplug this thing so I can plug in my cellphone".......
Seen many of your videos Jeff and this is great content aswell. Hope you get well and better soon :)
I had one of those for a month or so, very annoying, but now after the event, it's interesting to see an explanation! Of course, I wish you the best and that you can get outta there ASAP 👍
Crohn's disease might be chronic, but your content is iconic! Hope you feel better soon!
Good luck! Many years ago I worked for an embedded systems contractor to Alaris, and the safety critical programming was mind-blowing for a new grad like myself.
The UI logic board and logic for the pump were separate, and the pump controller kept all variables in triplicate to detect bit errors… overcautious? No, the xray and MRI scanners are perfect at causing this kind of problem! The pump logic itself needs the keep track of the elasticity and viscosity of the drug being pumped; a sudden stop of the pump could cause a water hammer effect that draws some blood back up the tube, so startup and shutdown need careful control. To pump nano-molars of fluid over hours, often the case for cancer drugs, needs serious engineering to not loose accuracy.
You’re in very good hands with their software! My new baby daughter is on the same machines in the UK.
Take care, I love your videos!!
Interesting, I didn't even think about that-these pumps would have to operate in conditions similar to space, probably, where stray radiation *would* be a daily reality!
@@JeffGeerling I could go on - typically these things were coded in a C dialect ‘MISRA C’ which was supposed to eliminate common C mistakes, invented by the automobile industry, no dynamic memory allocation so behaviour over time is more predictable, and lots of static analysis tools like PC-lint.
Even the inputs method is safety-minded; press and hold to change values, because number keys make decimal point mistakes too easy!
I think every new programmer should learn about embedded and safety critical programming; it gives you an idea of just how hard it is to be sure your product won’t accidentally hurt someone…
@@JeffGeerling Single-event upsets can affect any silicon, but become more noticeable at sub 100nm levels. Prior to working in medical/clinical engineering, I was head of system/software safety for a major vehicle components manufacturer. We saw field data come back from certain geographical areas where SEU's were recorded from cars driving around at higher altitudes (cosmic rays). The same applies to any safety critical silicon, so the types of safety critical techniques (defensive programming, redundant storage of safety critical variables, advanced watchdog systems) get used not just in cars & aviation, but also in medical equipment.
@@benpapworth You're spot-on. User interface design and usability are probably the biggest problems we have with medical technology at the moment.
@@drmal Software developers are often seem unaware that the field of ergonomics exists and is deeply relied upon in physical product development…
I liked some of the other physical aspects of safety - some connectors being keyed to fit only certain ways, colour coding, etc. The manufacturers make a lot of money selling those, more than the machines themselves!
Thanks for always finding a way to post amazing tech content Jeff, and hope you get well soon!
Hope your feeling better and on the mend, as a fellow IBD patient I know your struggle with hospital stays and the boredom that can arise.
I also know just how fun it is when you know the equipment better than the new nurses, I recently did a stay in my local and had a new nurse that couldn't work out why even though she got the notification that the pump had a problem by the time she got to it the faults were cleared, did this half a dozen times before I let her in on what was happening.
Your thumbnail ALMOST just made me pee on myself with laughter! Get well SOON !!!
Cheers!
Judson & Buddy !!
Maybe you gotta get that bladder problem checked out... using an IV! :D
You are experimenting in the hospital too 😅
Very interesting! I too am in and out of hospitals a lot as well due to my sickle cell anemia, and those IV machine annoy the crap out of me.
Hang in there buddy, we are all rooting for you!!
God Bless.
I hope you're getting better. Big up for your courage and optimism.
haha great you're using your time well! Never stop messing around with tech :D
hope you feel better soon! We're rooting for ya
SiFive recently began a Kickstarter for their new VisionFive 2 SBC (RISC-V based Raspberry Pi competitor) I'd love to hear your thoughts on that or see a review of either the super earlybird model or the finished one if that's something you'd like to check out.
I am trying to get my hands on one ;)
The sensitivity of the hardware is impressive, but what always fascinated me about the medical equipment is the construction and engineering tricks they use to make it absolutely positively 1000% reliable. Would be cool to see that.
Hope you get better soon!
Get well soon, Jeff. Thanks you, really enjoy your channel.
Hope you feel better soon man. Love your videos
Yeah, a couple of years ago I had surgery for bowel tumors (I also have a ileostomy right now, hopefully getting rid of it this autumn) - but the nurses really didn't want me fiddling with anything (probably because one of the pumps was for morphine. heh)
Yeah... I feel like there are some things you just don't touch. Especially if they're hooked up to your body.
Man, I hope you feel better soon. 💪🏼 *BEEP*
Haha triggering my IV pump PTSD there
@@JeffGeerling all jokes aside, I really do hope you feel better. As interesting it is to geek out on medical equipment, we want to see you back in your home office playing with regular gadgets soon.
Wish you get well soon Jeff! Love all your videos! You are awesome!
Dude, I hope you feel better soon and get out of the hospital. Thank you for the Ansible tutorials & book, and all the amazing raspberry pi videos!
Jeff won't be happy until there's at least one Raspberry Pi per hospital bed. For what? The entertainment and further education of patients, obviously! Get well soon, Jeff!
LOL--my son (who has UC) has spent many days in similar settings, and I do/think the same thing while bedside. Nothing like Googling user manuals for the equipment to figure out what all the buttons do!
Haha that was me two visits ago for the bed :D
"How do I get it to stop flipping me over, I can ambulate!"
@@JeffGeerling wait what? the bed flips you like a pancake?
@@LiLBitsDK Not quite pancake-level flipping, but it has a bunch of air chambers that inflate and deflate, and make your body move around from side to side. It's great if you're actually bed-ridden, since it can prevent bed sores and saves the poor nurse/tech staff from having to lift up heavy patients and rotate them.
But it's not so great if you can walk around and aren't laying flat in the bed all day, because it just keeps you awake.
@@JeffGeerling I liked my cartoon vision better :-P get well soon so you can get back home before you drive the nurses too crazy
Really nice to see you are in good spirits, there can be some dark days at points but you have to keep positive.
Best of luck.
Deepest sympathy for what you have been going through. Be well and hope you’re able to go home soon.
Peace and long life.
I will concur after spending many nights in a hospital, Nursing staff is too busy in the break lounge or watching TV to shut off a beeping monitor. I learned how to switch off the alarm long time ago.
In my case, at least at the two hospitals I frequent, the sad fact is they spread the nurses/techs a bit thin, so they can only dedicate maybe 5 minutes per hour per patient. And on busier nights, they might have an extra patient or two, sometimes causing the nurses to only get maybe one or two breaks in their shift :(
@@JeffGeerling You said it buddy. The Covid-19 pandemic has been a body blow to healthcare. RN's leaving because of burnout, can't hire Tech's. Staff are so overstretched that help lines are available to line staff for mental health.
Not in my hospital. We wish we could sit still.
I get infusions every 8 weeks for my ulcerative colitis. Wish the nurses would let me program those things instead of waiting for them to hear the beep
Heh, yeah... especially when it starts beeping like 10 seconds after they leave the room.
Hey i have that illness as well
Wishing you the best Jeff. Hope you are back to 100% soon!
I very quickly learned how to reset the alarms on the devices monitoring me when I landed in hospital in April this year. Makes going back to sleep so much easier if you can get it silenced before you are fully awake. All the best with this stay in hospital, hopefully you are mended soon.
I suffer a zillion serious medical issues, and my biggest lament, being a Trek fan, is not being able to spend 5 mins with Dr. Crusher. I think she'd fix you in under 60 seconds Jeff!
Point being that although we have a lot of medical knowledge, we've barely scratched the surface.
Get well soon. Lay off the lectins. Rooting for ya!
"Please state the nature of the medical emergency " 🤔😁😇
Dang, I think my personal record was 3 IVs but through a pick line years ago. You got me beat by miles
Also I'm very familiar with the silence button :)
Mostly when I get Remicade and it needed adjustment while I'm stuck in the bathroom. Used to have to do my business with that thing beeping the entire time until a nurse taught me how to use that button for myself! 🙏
PICC line... never again! I hate needles (though I see far too many of the things), and getting that line put in about turned my brain into mush!
Yeah it was a wild time, I was put on TPN for like a month with it.
I had always assumed hunger was caused by nutritional needs, but learned very fast that you still get extremely hungry even with the giant yogurt-looking sac going in your veins! That was a rough month @_@
If I had to look for a silver lining, I did get over my own fear of needles that I had then. Still hate injections, but IV's specifically are something I'm at peace with now. Couldn't tell you how that works 🤣
OH, ALSO I HOPE YOU GET WELL SOON MAN! I got sidetracked with the story, but I really wish for you to be happy and healthy(-ier?) soon!
My ratings for types of drug administration, injection < needle < picc line < oral pill.
injections are the worse since you have to do it yourself, well at least the medicine that i had.
needles are better since a nurse will put it in, imo infusions are better since the nurses are awesome.
picc line is great if you need lots of infusions all the time since its semi permanent, fewer jabbing of the needles.
oral pill, well that's the easiest option for anyone.
I agree with this. Also to add another factor, I find for needles and injections that the area is sore for a day or two afterwards, whereas I don't get that same problem with IV's.
Hope you feel better Jeff! Wishing you a full recovery.
I had to show my wife this video because I'm the same way. I'm not alone! One time, a new nurse came in to hook up the EKG and didn't have the "cheat sheet", so I googled it up and showed her where each sensor went.
Hey Jeff, my sister has Crohn’s disease and it sucks balls. I’m sorry you have to deal with it but glad you’re still making content while you’re down.
Hospitals do have some really cool tech, especially the drugs 😎
Thank you Mr. Nerdgasm :)
If you've ever any questions about how external beam radiotherapy works, I'm a radiotherapy engineer and I make the linear accelerators work
Completely different aspect of healthcare technology, but it's a really interesting one that uses a lot of interconnected subsystems to make angry cancer hating radioactive pixies do their thing
Get well soon my friend, you taught us a lot and keep teaching us while you’re sick.
I was in the hospital constantly since 2018-2021 throughout my cancer diagnosis and those sounds are such a throw back 💀 wild to see those same exact pumps in someones video. I remember constantly being woken up by them throughout the night
Classic Jeff! Make sure red shirt Jeff doesn’t get anywhere near that equipment… unless you’re fine with paying…
Sorry to see that you are in the hospital, but glad to see you are in good spirits!
I spend a lot of time in hospital too but hopefuls this is over for me. I wish you a very prompt recovery and all the best energy to fight whatever you have too. Stay strong 💪
Hoping you get better and get home soon. Also hope you're having more visitors than I did on my last hospital stay.
Always fun to see your take on things :) Stay strong and get well soon!
Thanks Jeff, it really takes something extraordinary to stop you posting new video. I really appreciate it. Take care and I hope you start to feel better very soon.
I’ve been in the hospital dozens of times as I was born with Osteogenesis Imperfecta. I’ve grown a love/hate relationship with these. On one hand, it’s super easy to understand, and it’s helpful. On the other hand it won’t shut up. Like when I go to sleep, my arm might move slightly, and then it starts alarming. Luckily I’m so used to these things that I can easily turn the alarm off. If it does it twice in quick succession, then I let the nurse figure it out.
Hope you get to feeling better man!
Hope you get better! I always get funny looks from nurses/doctors when I'm asking about all the random things. I was donating plasma once and surprised the tech when I brought up the BNC connector going to the tool they use to seal the tubes. Apparently it melts them with a handheld microwave/cutter