Infusion therapy is one of the largest practised therapies in any healthcare organisation, and infusion pumps are used to deliver millions of infusions every year in the NHS. The aircraft industry downloads information from 'black boxes' to help design better systems and reduce risk; however, the same cannot be said about error logs and data logs from infusion pumps. This study downloaded and a...

OBJECTIVES The objective of the study is to evaluate the feasibility, safety and efficacy of home infusion of iloprost with the new portable syringe pump Infonde®, for the treatment of scleroderma-related Raynaud's phenomenon and digital ulcers. METHODS 12 scleroderma patients were treated with iloprost at home, using the pump, with infusion cycles of 2 days per month (24 hours a day), for 6 ...

Pharmacokinetic (PK)/pharmacodynamic (PD) modeling has made an enormous contribution to intravenous anesthesia. PK/PD models have provided us with insight into the factors affecting the onset and offset of drug effect. For example, we are now able to describe the influence of cardiac output on the disposition of intravenous drugs within the first few minutes after administration of the drug. We...

1 Hospices Civils de Lyon, Groupement Hospitalier Edouard Herriot, Service de Réanimation Médicale, F-69003 Lyon, France 2 Faculté de Médecine Lyon-Est, Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, F-69008 Lyon, France 3 Unité d’Hygiène, Epidémiologie et Prévention, Groupement Hospitalier Edouard Herriot, F-69003 Lyon, France 4 Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS UMR 5558, Equipe Epidémiologi...

Corresponding Author: Beata Mianowska, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Pediatrics, Oncology, Hematology, and Diabetology, Medical University of Lodz, Sporna 36/50, 91-738 Lodz, Poland; email address [email protected] In very young children with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), insulin dose is often below 5–10 U/day, which necessitates infusion of volumes lower than 0.05–0.1 ml/day of 100 ...

It is 2 am in the cardiac step-down unit. A nurse needs to set up a secondary infusion on a new infusion pump, a procedure that she has never done before. She had attended the in-service training session before the pumps arrived the previous month, but there was a great deal of information to absorb. Clinical nurse specialists, who provide assistance with technology-related questions, are not a...

While some published research indicates a fairly high frequency of Intravenous (IV) medication errors associated with the use of smart infusion pumps, the generalizability of these results are uncertain. Additionally, the lack of a standardized methodology for measuring these errors is an issue. In this study we iteratively developed a web-based data collection tool to capture IV medication err...

Electromagnetic interference with life-sustaining medical care devices has been reported by various groups. Previous studies have demonstrated that volumetric and syringe pumps are susceptible to false alarm buzzing and blocking, when exposed to various electromagnetic sources. The risk of electromagnetic interference depends on several factors such as the phone-emitted power, distance and carr...

INTRODUCTION Bubble formation in insulin pump giving sets is a common problem. We studied change in temperature, change in atmospheric pressure, and vibration as potential mechanisms of bubble formation. METHODS 5 Animas 2020 pumps with 2 mL cartridges and Inset II infusion systems, 5 Medtronic Paradigm pumps with 1.8 mL cartridge and Quickset and 3 Roche Accu-chek pumps with 3.15 mL cartridg...

The focus of this paper is on the challenges and opportunities presented by developing scenarios of use for interactive medical devices. Scenarios are integral to the international standard for usability engineering of medical devices (IEC 62366:2007), and are also applied to the development of health software (draft standard IEC 82304-1). The 62366 standard lays out a process for mitigating ri...