Recent medical studies have investigated the importance of enteral feeding and the use of feeding pumps for recovering patients unable to feed themselves or gain nourishment and nutrients by natural means. The most of enteral feeding system uses a peristaltic tube pump. A peristaltic pump is a form of positive displacement pump in which a flexible tube is progressively squeezed externally to al...

The use of insulin pump in diabetes is likely to increase with recent advances in technology. Although the evidence for the superiority of pumps over multiple daily injections (MDI) is inconsistent, data from accumulating uncontrolled studies indicate greater reductions in glycated haemoglobin in patients switching to continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII) from MDI therapy. Due to the ...

OBJECTIVE To determine if combining standard drug concentrations with "smart-pump" technology reduces reported medication-infusion errors. DESIGN Preintervention and postintervention comparison of reported medication errors related to infusion therapies during the calendar years 2002 and 2003. SETTING A 242-bed university-affiliated tertiary pediatric hospital. INTERVENTION Change in cont...

BACKGROUND Random safety audits (RSA) are a safety tool enabling prevention of adverse events, but they have not been widely used in hospitals. The aim of this study was to use RSAs to assess and compare the frequency of appropriate use of infusion pump safety systems in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) before and after quality improvement interventions and to analyse the intravenous medic...

BACKGROUND The current standard chemotherapy for advanced or metastatic colorectal cancer in Japan is FOLFOX or FOLFIRI therapy. Although both therapies include continuous infusion of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), outpatient home chemotherapy is possible by placing a central venous access port (CV-port) and using a portable disposable pump. The port system has been placed more frequently since the app...

Aim To implement and train staff in the use of a smart-pump drug library across all clinical areas four sites large paediatric hospital group. Method A multi-disciplinary steering group was devised with representation from each site to co-ordinate implementation smart-pumps entire organisation. Two stages training were identified: Phase 1: smart-infusion pump new users; 2: education. 2 co-ordin...

OBJECTIVE Intravenous medications are vital during inpatient management. Errors associated with the administration of medications through intravenous infusion pumps to critically ill patients can result in adverse drug events. We sought to assess the impact of smart pumps with integrated decision support software on the incidence and nature of medication errors and adverse drug events. DESIGN...