General Information
BD Alaris
TM
System with Guardrails
TM
Suite MX User Manual 241
General Information
Warnings and Cautions
General
• The PCA module is designed to stop fluid flow under alarm conditions. Periodic
patient monitoring must be performed to ensure that the infusion is proceeding as
expected. It is a positive displacement delivery system, capable of developing
positive fluid pressures to overcome widely varying resistances to flow encountered
in practice, including resistances to flow imposed by small gauge catheters, filters
and intra-arterial infusion. It is neither designed nor intended to detect infiltrations
and does not alarm under infiltration conditions.
• The use of positive displacement infusion devices ported together with gravity flow
infusion systems into a common IV site can impede the flow of common “gravity
only” systems, affecting their performance. Hospital/facility personnel must ensure
that the performance of the common IV site is satisfactory under these
circumstances.
• Each time the system is turned on, verify and/or set the monitoring mode, resistance
alert, and/or pressure alarm limit. If the monitoring mode, resistance alert, and/or
pressure alarm limit are not verified, the instrument might not operate within the
desired occlusion detection parameter(s).
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