Ameda Platinum Quick Start Guide

To mimic a baby’s sucking to start milk ow:
• Push sucon buon up to your highest
comfortable level.
• Try starng at 10% and gradually connue to
increase sucon level to arrive at your highest
comfortable level.
GETTING STARTED before beginning, wash hands
Platinum
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Quick Start Guide
• If sterile, use immediately (kit is
preassembled)
• If not sterile, clean and assemble
the kit (refer back page of this
Quick Card Guide).
To mimic a baby’s changing pattern to slow, deep
draws or sucks:
• Once milk ows:
- Push speed buon down to a slower speed to help
drain milk.
- Try slowing speed to 50-60 cycles per minute. You
can lower speed further if that’s more comfortable.
- Connue to adjust sucon as needed to arrive at
your highest comfortable level to drain milk.
When milk ow slows, try for
another let-down:
- Increase speed back to
80* cycles per minute.
- Adjust sucon to your
highest comfortable level.
- Once milk ows again, lower
speed to help drain milk.
• Insert tubing adapter.
• Center ange on breast
to create seal.
• Refer to back page of this Quick
Card Guide for proper ange fit.
• Push On buon.
• Speed starts automacally
at 80 cycles per minute.
• Sucon starts at the lowest
seng at 1%.
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To Simulate Let-Down Expressing Milk Multiple Let-Downs
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*Larkin, et al., Examining the Use and Outcomes of a New Hospital-Grade Breast Pump in
Exclusively Pumping NICU Mothers. Adv. Neo Care 2013;13(1):75-82.
Adapter
Silicone Diaphragm
Breast Flange
Valve
Tubing
Tubing
Adapter
Bottle
IMPORTANT: Only use an Ameda HygeniKit
Milk Collection Kit. Consult you healthcare
provider on pumping session time.
Ameda Planum® Mul-User Breast Pump with HygieniKit™ Milk
Collecon System featuring Proven Airlock Protecon™ to help protect
breast milk, kit tubing and the pump.

Ameda Platinum Specifications

General

Battery Option	No
Closed System	Yes
Type	Hospital Grade
Suction Strength	Adjustable
Cycle Speed	Adjustable
Power Source	AC adapter
Intended Use	Frequent Use
Double or Single Pumping	Double