Difference between revisions of "Smart infusion pump"
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Smart, computerized infusion pumps have developed to the point that they are readily available on the market from a variety of vendors, and for a variety of uses. | Smart, computerized infusion pumps have developed to the point that they are readily available on the market from a variety of vendors, and for a variety of uses. | ||
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Some smart pumps have become network devices, connecting to wireless networks in hospitals and clinics using IEEE 802.11 standards for wireless local area network communications. | Some smart pumps have become network devices, connecting to wireless networks in hospitals and clinics using IEEE 802.11 standards for wireless local area network communications. | ||
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| + | One fascinating advantage of smart infusion pump technology is the ability to capture information from the pump programming process for later review and analysis. Typically, smart infusion pumps include drug libraries or databases of drug-specific information. These drug libraries can include lower and upper bounds governing safe and appropriate infusion rates for standard infusions as they are defined by the hospital, health-system or clinic. These lower and upper infusion rate bounds are then used to provide administration decision support at the point-of-care. Overridable soft stops and rigid hard stops are both supported by some of the smart pump software. | ||
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| + | The smart pump use data that can be collected at the level of the smart infusion pump and then aggregaged into a smart infusion pump database on central server or servers includes records of the administration warnings and alerts that have fired and the administering clinicians responses to those alerts. | ||
Revision as of 17:06, 15 November 2008
Overview
Smart, computerized infusion pumps have developed to the point that they are readily available on the market from a variety of vendors, and for a variety of uses.
It is important to distinguish the different types of pumps by modality. The common modalities are (1) large volume parenteral infusions (LVPs), (2) syringe infusions, (3) epidural infusions and (4) patient-controlled analgesia infusions.
Some pumps are purpose-built exclusively to be used for only a single modality, whereas other pumps have been engineered to support multiple infusion modalities.
Klas recently (2008) reviewed several pump vendor products. The represented vendors were B. Braun, Baxter, Cardinal Health, Hospira, Sigma and Smiths Medical.
Some smart pumps have become network devices, connecting to wireless networks in hospitals and clinics using IEEE 802.11 standards for wireless local area network communications.
Smart Infusion Pump quality data
One fascinating advantage of smart infusion pump technology is the ability to capture information from the pump programming process for later review and analysis. Typically, smart infusion pumps include drug libraries or databases of drug-specific information. These drug libraries can include lower and upper bounds governing safe and appropriate infusion rates for standard infusions as they are defined by the hospital, health-system or clinic. These lower and upper infusion rate bounds are then used to provide administration decision support at the point-of-care. Overridable soft stops and rigid hard stops are both supported by some of the smart pump software.
The smart pump use data that can be collected at the level of the smart infusion pump and then aggregaged into a smart infusion pump database on central server or servers includes records of the administration warnings and alerts that have fired and the administering clinicians responses to those alerts.
