IV Connection Cost Savings Calculator

The calculator provides default values based on your region for guidance, but values should be replaced with data from your own hospital or department, where possible.

Department / Hospital Information

Region Annual Hospital Admission Rate The total number of annual admissions for your facility.

22500

Average Hourly Wage for Nurses Default: ~$45 in the United States.[1]

Percentage of Patients Who Receive IVs Department heads estimate ~70% of patients require IV access. [2]

80%

Average Length of Stay (days) Default: 6.6 days in U.S. hospitals.[3]

6.6

Daily Disconnections per Patient A children’s hospital estimates ~1.25 disconnections/day (others up to 4-5).

1.25

Percentage of Connections That Get Stuck Nurses estimate 15-30% of connections get stuck.[4]

15%

Time to Resolve Stuck Connection (in minutes) A representative from a prominent children's hospital suggested that it takes 2 nurses 10 minutes to unstick a line. [4]

Percentage of Stuck Connections That Damage the Line 79% of nurses have reported damaging a line due to a stuck connection. [4]
An estimated 1.7% of connections in pediatric oncology patients are damaged. [5]

1.7%

Cost to Replace a Damaged Line Average cost (NG, peripheral, central, etc.) from Medicare data.[6]

500

Results

Number of patients on IV: 0

Number of Disconnections: 0

Annual Number of Stuck Connections: 0

Annual Labor Cost of Difficult Connections: $0

Total Annual Cost of Yewtwist (all connections): $0

Total Annual Savings with Yewtwist with Line Breakage: $0

Total Cost to Replace: $0

Total Annual Savings with Yewtwist without Line Breakage: $0

Footnotes

[1] Hourly Nurse Wage https://www.statista.com/statistics/1456511/hourly-wage-of-registered-nurses-by-province-canada/

[2] Puolitaival A, Savola M, Tuomainen P, Asseburg C, Lundström T, Soini E. Advantages in Management and Remote Monitoring of Intravenous Therapy: Exploratory Survey and Economic Evaluation of Gravity-Based Infusions in Finland. Adv Ther. 2022 May;39(5):2096-2108. doi: 10.1007/s12325-022-02093-6. Epub 2022 Mar 14. PMID: 35287232; PMCID: PMC8919170.

[3] Statista: Average Length of Stay in Hospitals: Average Length of Stay in Hospitals.

[4] Survey: New Intravenous Tools for Nurses at American Vascular Access Association Scientific meeting, 2022.

[5] CVAD Statistics, Springer, 2024: Damage Statistics on CVAD Devices

[6] IV Line Replacement and Repair Costs: Medicare Procedure Price Lookup

[7] Average Length of Stay in Canadian Hospitals: Canadian Institute for Health Information