Saving lives in intensive care.A spinning cardboard wheel that saves lives has won the Supreme Award at the 2006 New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. Health Innovation Awards. The simple and inexpensive device, developed by engineers and doctors at Christchurch Hospital, is revolutionising the care of intensive care patients with a form of stress-induced diabetes. The SPRINT system--Specialised Relative Insulin Nutrition Tables--tells nurses quickly and accurately how much insulin and food these patients need to control their glucose levels. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. intensive care specialist and team leader Geoffrey Shaw, the system was cheap to set up and simple to use, but is also an original concept with huge international potential. It is estimated it could save at least 150 lives and $3 million a year nationally. It is the second time Shaw has won at the Health Innovation Awards. Last year, he led the award-winning Infuse in·fuse v. 1. To steep or soak without boiling in order to extract soluble elements or active principles. 2. To introduce a solution into the body through a vein for therapeutic purposes. Rite team, with their improved method of providing sedation Sedation Definition Sedation is the act of calming by administration of a sedative. A sedative is a medication that commonly induces the nervous system to calm. Purpose The process of sedation has two primary intentions. to critically ill patients. Canterbury District Health Board's (DHB DHB District Health Board (New Zealand) DHB Deutscher Handball Bund (German) DHB Deutschen Hausfrauen-Bundes (Darmstadt) DHB DHB Capital Group, Inc. ) mental health screening in a women's prison won the award for Process Improvement. The screening involves adding additional questions to the routine health check carried out by nurses when women enter prison. Work is now underway to develop a national screening process for other New Zealand prisons. Waitemata DHB won an award for its Beverage Guidelines, developed to show schools the healthiest drinks they can stock, using a "traffic light" system. The guidelines also won the People's Choice Award, worth $5000. A joint initiative by the Ministry of Health and the Accident Compensation Corporation, the awards promote sharing good ideas across the health sector. The 25 finalists, chosen from 110 entries, presented their ideas during an expo in Wellington at the end of June. The awards are administered by the New Zealand Business Excellence Foundation. An independent team of evaluators and a panel of judges Panel of Judges is an indie pop band from Melbourne, Australia. Members
scrutinize, size up, take stock entries. The supreme award winner receives $15,000, with other winners receiving $8000. |
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