The Lost Art of Lacing Cable (2018)
Aside: I work in med-tech. One of the largest complaints of doctors and nurses, especially in the ICU, is the cables and tubes. There are just SO MANY cables and tubes in a working ICU. Nurses and docs are constantly stepping on them, pulling them out, choking off blood&#x2F;saline&#x2F;urine&#x2F;air in some tube, knocking power off of another, etc. Most of the machines can&#x27;t do wireless, as some of the machines will &#x27;jam&#x27; that particular bandwidth to operate (MRI, etc).<p>As this article seems to be collecting a lot of great people that know their cabling, is there anything we can do to reduce or eliminate the headaches that are cables and tubes in a panicked ICU? Anything may help, and I&#x27;d love to know some more ideas.<p>EDIT: One thing I&#x27;ve found for cable bundle twisting issues is that &#x27;N-in-hand&#x27; braiding the cables helps relieve some of the stresses when they inevitably get twisted up. Think 30 wires&#x2F;tubes all twisting about as the patient&#x2F;machine is whirled about. Braiding the cables helps the wires on the outside of the bundle not twist and pull out as much as they are on the outside radius of the bundle. The braiding helps, in that over enough distance, all the wires spend equal &#x27;time&#x27; in the inside and the outside of the cable&#x27;s width.<p>Does anyone know of a good resource on cable&#x2F;tube twisting and how to help with it?