One of the most common methods for providing postoperative analgesia is via patient-controlled analgesia (PCA). Although the typical approach is to administer opioids via a programmable infusion pump, other drugs and other modes of administration are available. This article reviews the history and practice of many aspects of PCA and provides extensive guidelines for the practice of PCA-administ...

Angiotensin II (ANG II)-induced hypertension is a commonly studied model of experimental hypertension, particularly in rodents, and is often generated by subcutaneous delivery of ANG II using Alzet osmotic minipumps chronically implanted under the skin. We have observed that, in a subset of animals subjected to this protocol, mean arterial pressure (MAP) begins to decline gradually starting the...

Increasingly more Americans are being diagnosed with diabetes mellitus, and the number of those using the continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion pump (CSII), commonly known as the insulin pump, is on the rise. Although evidence is lacking on how best to manage insulin pump patients perioperatively, several individual or institutional approaches have been developed. Here we propose a comprehen...

INTRODUCTION Despite increasing chemoradiotherapy treatment, there is a paucity of information regarding the effects of radiation exposure on ambulatory infusion pumps used to deliver chemotherapy or other essential medications. The aim of this overview is to present the available evidence on this subject, heighten awareness within the clinical community, provide considerations for minimizing p...

objective: this study investigated the efficacy of bupivacaine wound infusion for pain control and opioid sparing effect after cesarean delivery. materials and methods: we conducted a randomized double blind, placebo controlled clinical trial on 60 parturients undergoing cesarean section at a university hospital in tehran. patients were randomized to receive a pump infusion system that was fill...

An infusion pump powered by body heat is investigated in this paper, with the goal of addressing the needs of dermal wound healing. The infusion pump incorporates a Knudsen gas pump, a type of thermally driven pump, to pneumatic push the pharmaceutical agent from a reservoir. Two designs are considered: an integrated pump and reservoir, and a design with cascaded pump and reservoir. Thermal mod...

In the first case, a post-operative patient was prescribed fentanyl 2 mcg/mL with bupivacaine 0.125% by epidural infusion for pain management. The infusion rate ordered was 10 mL/hour. Ketorolac 30 mg intravenously was also prescribed for this patient. A student nurse ‘piggybacked’ a 50 mL minibag containing ketoralac to the main IV line which did not have an infusion pump. She then mistakenly ...

This paper presents a generic infusion pump user interface (GIP-UI) architecture that intends to capture the common characteristics and functionalities of interactive software incorporated in broad classes of infusion pumps. It is designed to facilitate the identification of use hazards and their causes in infusion pump designs. This architecture constitutes our first effort at establishing a m...

PURPOSE This study was performed to evaluate the efficacy of interscalene regional blocks and infusion pumps for postoperative pain control after arthroscopic subacromial decompression with or without arthroscopic rotator cuff repair. METHODS Seventy-six patients were included in the prospective study. Participants were randomized into 4 treatment groups: (1) interscalene regional block, (2) ...