The entanglement of cables and tubing at patient bedsides can compromise patient care and recovery by disconnecting critical lines or restricting patient movement, prolonging recovery times. A new product is needed to replace current bedside wiring and tubing systems to improve patient safety and recovery for individuals and reduce pressures on healthcare systems.

1. Writing your Reports
Can you break this introduction down into WEED?
The potential issues caused by the entanglement of cables and tubing at hospital bedsides
are numerous and can often seriously compromise patient care and recovery. For example,
in an intensive care unit a mess of cables that becomes caught and pulled can disconnect or
snap a critical fluid line leading to the rapid deterioration of a patient’s condition (Imhoff,
2004). This could then be made more dangerous by anyone trying to reconnect the line by
pulling back at the cabling, potentially damaging a number of other life supporting systems.
Patients have also been known to become strangled by tubing this is more common in
paediatric care where child patients become restless and induce further tangling by moving
about (Garros et al., 2003). In circumstances when a patient is bed-bound for an extended
amount of time, movement and exercise can enhance recovery and reduce loss of muscle
strength (Burtin et al., 2009). However, the way that most wired monitoring systems are set
up limit the area in which a patient can move by effectively tethering them to the machine.
This has a wider impact on the NHS by contributing to bed shortages because patients take
longer to recover to the point at which they can be discharged. A product is therefore
required that can replace the current system of bedside cables and tubing to improve
patient safety and recovery, which would be beneficial to the individual patient and alleviate
some of the pressures on the health system.
In pairs, identify the aim, the context and the theory in this introduction
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2. Have a look at this paragraph from an example discussion. The aim of this experiment was
to identify decomposition rates of leaf breakdown to establish rates of energy transfer.
It was expected that the leaves would show a far higher rate of decomposition in the shore
zone, where there are more chances for sediments to rub against them. However the two
zones show no significant difference in leaf breakdown, although these results are non-
conclusive due to the limitations of this experiment. The two zones of leaf decomposition
were physically too close, and over the incubation period reeds were observed growing
close to the limnetic zone. This may have negatively affected the accuracy of the results by
reducing the differences in habitat at these sites, as seen in other experiments (Jones et al.
2017). The results also had large standard deviations, possibly due to these physical
constraints or human error in weighing leaves. Further studies with more diverse zones and
precise procedures should be undertaken in order to explore leaf decomposition and rates
of energy transfer more effectively.
In your groups, discuss why this is a good conclusion.
What does it tell you about what to include in a conclusion?
The concentration of salicylic acid in commercially available aspirin tablets was determined
through UV spectroscopy. The mean concentration from three different tablets was
determined to be 301.1+/-4.36 mg per tablet, which is within commercially permitted limits.
The results for individual tablets were found to be dependent on the accuracy of
measurements during the process, and the purity of the other reagents. Standardised
solutions might further improve the accuracy of the results. These findings show that
analytical chemistry techniques such as spectrometry can be used for fast, accurate
determination of compound composition. This is important in many industries, where
consistency is crucial for effective use of the product, or is vital to the safety of the product.
What will you start trying to do to make improvements to your report planning?