What I do...

So most of you who read this may already know what I do for a living, but for those of you who don't and those of you who do I thought I would show you a bit of what I do for work. I have a very fun job. I get to invent stuff and create stuff that people use in the hospital and homecare markets. I work for a company called Maxtec. It is a company that's biggest selling products are oxygen sensors and analyzers. They are used in hospitals and in home care. They also have a variety of industrial applications including scuba and nitrogen tire filling. (Air is about 20.9% oxygen and the rest is nitrogen and trace amounts of other gases, so by knowing the oxygen in the air you can know how much nitrogen is in the air.) So here a few pictures of our oxygen analyzer products.

One of my first projects at Maxtec was helping with the documentation and implementing a new product onto our manufacturing floor. This product is called the MaxVenturi. It is designed to draw in air in the room (filtered) using a stream of oxygen. This product delivers a high flow of gas to the patient and the amount of oxygen can be increased as needed. This device is particularly useful in old hospitals where medical grade air is not provided in the hospital. From what I have heard, there are lots of hospitals outside the US that don't have piped air in their hospital.

One of my most recent projects, (and I would also say one of my favorite products) is called the SmartStack IV stand. In hospitals IV poles and equipment stands when not being used are kept in closets. Usually these closets get very full - sometimes so full that some hospitals will sacrifice hospital rooms/beds so that they have room for all the equipment. Well, the engineering team designed an IV pole that stacks like a shopping cart. The amount of space is saves is rediculous. We put 24 of our IV poles next to 24 regular IV poles and ours took 1/3 of the space! I mentioned in an earlier blog that I have a patent with my name on it - the SmartStack is that device. Below are some pictures showing how they fit together.