Ameda Platinum - Quick Start Guide Manual

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
®
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.