When Cable Management Is A Matter Of Life and Death

Often times we like to start our articles off joking around with you and taking a real light hearted approach to our articles but sometimes we have to be completely composed and professional on matters. This article in our cable management series is one of these times where witticisms are going to have to be kept to a minimum in fair interest to the point. Now believe it or not cable management can indeed be a matter of life and death.

Now we’re not talking about a business deal this time or an important e-mail that has to be sent to your friend from across the table. We’re talking about situations like medical patients who are in intensive care units or newly arrived individuals with serious injuries that have to be situated somewhere in what’s already a frantic and all business environment. When it comes to tending to current patients and admitting new ones cable management is more important than we think.

Every patient is at a different level of health or lack thereof. For instance a man with just one broken leg will likely be out in less than a day depending on factors like age and severity of injury. However say an individual has a bitter illness and they’re being administered for a long term visit then things have to be monitored. We mean everything from the simple keying in of the patient’s name at the service desk all the way to emergency bathroom handles/IV units to bedside monitors.

All these machinery has to be networked and accounted for. Everything at the bedside of a patient has to be clearly seen and distinguished so proper treatment can be carried out when needed. When a hospital’s network is setup the team of workers assigned to cable management must know what cable goes to what room and that all emergency functions are up and running.

If cables are not assigned correctly and accounted for then that could only mean trouble. In theory a mismanaged cable could lead to a scenario where an emeregency level is pulled and a nurse, doctor or orderly rush frantically into a hospital room ready once more to perform their Hippocratic Oath.

However, the room that the medical staff enters is occupied by a high school athlete that is recovering from a shoulder injury and is otherwise in fine shape. You can tell that other than his injury he looks fine and healthy. He tells the staff that he didn’t pull the alarm. The staff quickly realizes they’re in the wrong room. Luckily they look across the hall and find the actual emergency in the room across. Somehow the signals in both these rooms were crossed. Somebody definitely messed up here.

But let’s get back to our scenario, the staff makes it just in time to tend to the patient and thankfully it was nothing that couldn’t be solved. The patient was merely having a bad reaction to his medicine. This time everything ended all right but bad situations have and can happen. Things could have been a lot worse in that emergency.

Now we’re sure you already knew this but to get it fresher into your mind it’s always good to come up with these hypotheticals.

Keeping that in mind we hope your knowledge of the importance of cable management has been reinforced because it truly can be a life or death matter at times and the more you know about that, the better.