Furukawa Electric Review No.54Development of a Light Emitting Component for a Luminous Central Venous (CV) Port

Yoshiki Nomura, Satoshi Goto, Katsuki Suematsu, Junichi Hasegawa, Kazutaka Nara, Tsunenori Arai

The Central Venous (CV) port, which is implanted under the patient’s skin, is used when medications are administered in the chemotherapy or the nutritional therapy. Training to secure puncture site of the CV port under the skin is necessary, and the medical accidents such as incomplete or incorrect punctures are still happening. Therefore, we developed a light emitting accessory for the CV port, which determines the puncture site possible with LEDs lighted by a Wireless Power Transfer (WPT). We performed animal experiments using the developed accessory and confirmed that a safe and secure puncture is available since the puncture site at the CV port can be determined. We have been developing the light emitting accessory for the luminous CV port for production.