OBJECTIVE A rare, but consistently reported complication of intrathecal (IT) delivery of opioids via programmable implantable infusion pumps is aseptic granuloma formation around the tip of the IT catheter. In the current study, the incidence and severity of IT granuloma formation was assessed for the MedStream Programmable Infusion and SynchroMed II Infusion pumps when delivering saline, baclo...

Over the past 10 years there have been many changes in the details of diabetic management. The development of home monitoring for capillary blood glucose and widespread availability of measurements of glycosylated haemoglobin have provided direct evidence that most diabetic children have poor or very poor glycaemic control. Additionally, there has been further evidence in support of the hypothe...

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...

Introduction It is unclear whether the use of linear peristaltic infusion pumps with different propulsion mechanisms can affect the quality of red blood cells (RBCs) transfusion. We hypothesized that the mechanism of liquid propulsion, infusion rate, complete or incomplete compression of the infusion sets segment and type of pumping segment composition materials are variables that can influence...

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...

In critically ill infants and children, intravascular (IV) access is sometimes very difficult. In such cases intraosseous (IO) infusion should be used as the method of choice. However, in practice, different problems are experienced with this procedure. To overcome the practical problems and to confirm the efficacy of IO infusion in reversing hypovolemic shock, an animal model was used by ...