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Safety HUG
What is the Safety HUG?
The Safet HUG is an intelligent medical harness for agitated patients in emergency room. The product has been patented and prototyped. The objective of the initiative is to give tools to ensure safety and ethics in contained patients.
The proposed solution will improve the quality of life of the patients by accelerating the removal of the
device once the agitation has been overcome, while avoiding the threat these patients can be for the healthcare professionals.
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In the last 3 years, Javier Perez Acebo, emergency nurse from Parc Taulà together with the Foundation Parc Tauli have developed Safety HUG in collaboration with Eurecat.
The product has been patented and prototyped. The objective of the initiative is to give tools to ensure safety and ethics in contained patients.
ZERO contention: Our mission is to reduce contentions
Through the safety HUG we accelerate the liberation of the contained patient and at the same time we provide a safe environment for the professional.
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Agitation is an array of syndromes and types of behaviors that are common in patients with psychiatric disorders. In Europe, the estimation of prevalence of agitation has been difficult due to the lack of standard studies or systematic data collection done on this syndrome. In Europe, there are about 164.8 million adult patients affected with mental disorders (Wittchen et al. 2011). Some of these patients, namely those with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, personality disorder, general anxiety disorder, panic disorder or major depression diagnoses, may suffer from some type of agitation in their lifetime.
Agitated behavior constitutes up to 10% of emergency psychiatric interventions (Tardiff and Sweillam, 1982). The overall prevalence of agitation in patients with schizophrenia or mood disorder is about 11–13%, with even higher rates among individuals with alcoholism (25%) or substance misuse (35%) (Swanson et al., 1990), dementia (24–45%), anxiety disorders (20–30%).
