I love this for medical storage. It locks and can be attached to the wall for safety. I even got a magnetic clipboard for charting and The Container Store has bins that fit inside perfectly. Anyway, just wanted to share this idea, for those who are looking for a more vertical solution.
We have this storage system. We put two of them back to back and it works wonderful for all of Bens toys and the top serves as a book shelf.
We started out with rolling drawers to hold things like syringes and other medical items. 1 set of drawer grew to 3, then 5 and eventually looked like a parking lot for rolling drawers. We decided it was time to do something bigger to accommodate everything in one unit. After lots of searching we found a unit at Ikea that we were able to customize to fit our needs. You can fill the cubies with bins, drawers, leave them as shelves, etc. We combined the flexibility if the Expedit shelving unit with our handy label maker and came out with a very effective medical storage system.
We have this back to back to form a cube and take up less room One is for supplies, one for all kiddos meds as they lock.
This is at Sam's club costs about $100 and I couldn't live with out it.
When our son had a routine tonsillectomy in 2010 he ended up contracting adenovirus and was in the fight of his life. He ended up being permanently trach/vented and when we finally got home 3 months later we were overwhelmed by the amount of medical supplies we had to deal with. Our first thought was we needed shelves and bins to hold everything but we were concerned our sons room would look more like a hospital than a kids room. We decided to check out the container store and ended up buying 16 large stacking drawers in various bright colors. Now we have a colorful room, with plenty of hard surfaces to use for small care prep areas and room decor and tons of storage space to tuck away/organize supplies.
This unit is lockable. My husband built it for daughter's play/therapy room. It hold switches, adapted toys, therapy stuff, etc. The locks help keep cousins and friends out of the therapy supplies.
My son's room has a Lightening McQueen/Cars theme so we went with a Craftsman tool chest for med and supply storage. Added some cheap inserts for organization and we have our own Medcart
Green baskets are gastric. One has extensions, both mickey and 4ft extensions and replacement Y ports. The middle one has tapes and guaze. The last one has 60ml syringes
Black for breathing. All neb masks, cups, tubing, and vortex masks.
The colored ones (soon to be replaced with solid colors like others) have different size syringes. I have 1ml, 3ml, 6ml, 12ml, and 20ml.
Bottom shelf is formula and duocal.
On the floor is 500ml bags, 1200ml bags, and pedialyte.
Off in the back is all surplus supplies.
all surplus meds are to the left of gastic(soon to be a red basket). The top white one is my youngest's hypoglycemia supplies. The bottom white drawer is full of instant ice packs.
We put in cabinets on one wall. We use a lot of stuff from like garage organizing for the little stuff. Really cheap at Harbor Freight. As you see we keep a small fridge for his meds and iv stuff. When he was little we had a attached changing pad on the counter. Now we use it for me. Preps.