About

SenseIV is a multidisciplinary team developing wearable technology for healthcare to empower patients and staff in the use of peripheral Intravenous therapy. The existing devices are fitted to patients of all types, from neonatal to geriatric, to deliver fluids ranging from relatively harmless saline solution through to the most potentially toxic chemotherapy drugs.

The problem we aim to solve could affect up to one-in-ten of the 20m patients fitted with IV in the UK each year. For the patient adverse events may mean skin irritation, swelling, skin burns, amputation or greater harm. With the potential of short term, long term or permanent damage. These adverse events are not always caught swiftly.

SenseIV aims to catch adverse events in seconds, alerting staff to the patient so the damage can be averted. This solution provides a disruptive intervention that removes some of the burden of information overload from the hospital staff.