organising et tubes in a drawer

Re: organising et tubes in a drawer

Anneke Kuipers — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:07:38 GMT

at my previous work place they used the drawer trolley (google for pics) and devided each drawer in 3 with plastic or cardboard deviders.

At my current place we have a nice system too (except for the wall mount!! AAAARRRRGGGHH)
we use the coloured instrument tape at the connection bit: (eg. size 2.5: blue, 3: blue and white, 3.5: white, 4: 1/2 green-1/2 red etc.)
but we keep the small sizes (up to 5.5 I think) on a separate and different rack than the bigger tubes (size 6 and up) and therefor can use the same colour combi's on the two different groups.
I'm finding this very good as the number tend to wash off over time as well, where as the tape stays on well

Re: organising et tubes in a drawer

Arlo Guthrie — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 10:27:14 GMT

[quote user="Vicki Cannings"]Sorry, may be being stupid but what does this mean?!![/quote]

No, not being stupid. That is just some code that appears if you cut and paste text from another application (usually Microsoft Word) into the forum WITHOUT using the 'paste from Word' feature (which has an icon of a clipboard with a W on it), located above the text entry box where you usually type a forum reply.

Re: organising et tubes in a drawer

vickicannings — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:56:12 GMT

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Sorry, may be being stupid but what does this mean?!!

Re: organising et tubes in a drawer

Kim Moore — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:13:22 GMT

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Oak Barn Vets bundles et tubes in storage trays. I’ll post some photos as soon as they send them across to me so you can see what their storage looks like.

You could also organise the et tubes using a tray insert, similar to the cutlery tray idea, but these inserts come in different sizes and are made to fit the trays perfectly. You could even use different trays, all labelled for quick identification, to organise different types of et tubes. Trays (drawers) can be moved from the storage units directly into mobile trolleys which makes the storage quite flexible, practical and useful.

Here’s a link to our website if you’d like to see our Vet storage solutions. http://www.gratnellsveterinary.com

We’re happy to hear feedback and to also come up with new storage ideas to solve your challenges. I hope this was helpful.

Re: organising et tubes in a drawer

Steph Smith BSc(hons) RVN — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 18:49:31 GMT

I know the feeling of raking through a small rickety metal drawer (insert *squeeek* here) to pull out every size ET tube EXCEPT for the one you're needing..!

I moved them from there into a slightly larger drawer and split them up into 4 compartments using Ikea dividers that I found in the back of a cupboard. The bigger tubes are still awkward to get out though and you cannot be 100% of what size you are picking up until you read the tube (the drawer is really too small).

I have also seen upside-down, long, v-shaped cardboard pieces used as horiontal dividers and labelled with the sizes. Worked better than my method but you need a decent width of drawer.

Re: organising et tubes in a drawer

Celine — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:17:49 GMT

There was some chat about cuffed vs uncuffed on here a month or two back, do a search in the sesrch box (top right) for uncuffed or similar to find it

Re: organising et tubes in a drawer

Jill Macdonald — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:22:15 GMT

Oooh, nice idea Vicki, might try that one!

I use one of those metal trays for the big ones, and just put them back in size order; and a large kidney dish for the cat ones.

Whilst we're on the topic of ET tubes - what's the latest on using cuffed tubes in cats? I was always taught NEVER use a cuffed tube on cat due to fragile trachea etc, and always used Portex uncufed (also get bigger internal diameter on these) but where I am we do use the cuffed ones..

Re: organising et tubes in a drawer

vickicannings — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:10:19 GMT

For cat sized tubes we use an old syringe box (deep square one not a long one) or similar and poke holes in the top. Then the tubes fit nicely into the top, then write just underneath the holes which size they are and saves any searching.

Re: organising et tubes in a drawer

fairy — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:04:38 GMT

Our branch surgery uses a kids toys/sock/shoe organiser. It hangs on the back of the door and has loads of compartments.

Re: organising et tubes in a drawer

Rachel B — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:54:46 GMT

cutlery trays a good idea, we had the same problem and have ended up with them all in a drawer in big zip lock bags labelled with the sizes, they're grouped up so we dont have 3million bags, not perfect but it helps so you dont have to search through ALL of them everytime

Re: organising et tubes in a drawer

Ilovehorses — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:55:19 GMT

Ditto the cutlery tray, we've got one drawer for cat tubes and one for dogs. We used to have one of the racks but vets were never careful and used to knock all of the tubes off :-(

Re: organising et tubes in a drawer

SuzyM — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:01:24 GMT

Cutlery drawer tray?