Chapter 2—BD Alaris™ PCU Model 8015 and Alaris™ PCU Model 8015
52 BD Alaris
TM
System with Guardrails
TM
Suite MX User Manual
Features and Displays
Features and Definitions
See the product-specific section of this user manual that applies to the attached module(s) for features and
definitions specific to that module.
Feature Definition
Clinician ID
An optional alphanumeric 16-character clinician identifier that can be entered and displayed.
Guardrails Data Set
Created using Guardrails editor software authoring tool and then transferred to the PCU. A data
set reflects hospital/facility's best practice guidelines for IV drug administration and IV fluid
administration. The data set includes: profile drug and fluid libraries, clinical advisories,
instrument configurations, therapies, and channel labels.
Guardrails Suite MX
Designed to help prevent programming errors by:
• Customizing device configurable se
ttings to meet the needs of selected hospital/facility
area/unit (profile).
• Checking user-programming against hospital-defined best practice guidelines.
• Providing a visual and audio prompt if a programmed entry is outside of the hospital/facility
established limits.
No Guardrails - Basic
Infusion
No Guardrails - Basic Infusion is a mode in which there are no Guardrails suite MX safety
software protection limits. No Guardrails - Basic Infusion is typically used for medications and
fluids not found in the drug library, investigational medications, and in emergency situations.
No Guardrails - Basic Infusion may include primary, secondary, or drug calculation infusions.
No Guardrails - Basic
Infusion Clinical
Advisory
When enabled, reinforces the hospital/facility best practice guidelines regarding the utilization
of Guardrails suite MX by providing a clinical advisory notifying the clinician that there is no
Guardrails suite MX protection for the selection made. This applies to basic infusion, basic
secondary, and drug calculation. This clinical advisory text can be customized within the
Guardrails editor and will appear in all profiles where this feature is enabled.
Patient ID
An optional alphanumeric 16-character patient identifier that can be entered and displayed
• When enabled, ID entry defaults to Startup screen.
•
When disabled, ID entry is only accessible from System Options screen.
Profile
A unique set of system configuration settings and Guardrails suite MX drug library parameters
limits (best practice guidelines) for a specific patient population or patient type, that can consist
of the following components:
• Instrument configuration settings.
•
A drug library, which includes drug names, standard concentrations, dosing units, duration
limits, and optional associated clinical advisories for both continuous and bolus dose
infusion.
• An IV fluid library, an optional library consisting of IV fluids (for example, TPN) and limits
around rate of delivery.
• A channel label library with text (alphanumeric) labels, which allows identification (on
modules) that can be used to indicate route of delivery (for example, epidural).
Profile settings are established by the facility’s ow
n m
ulti-disciplinary team prior to system
implementation. Profile parameters are used to create a data set, which is then transferred to the
PCU.
System Configuration
Allows system settings to be customized. If profiles feature is enabled, the system settings
defined for selected profile are automatically activated.
Tamper Resist
Provides a quick one-touch lockout of the front panel keypad when the infusion is running,
during a delay, or a SpO
2
or EtCO
2
module is actively monitoring. You cannot lock out the
front panel keypad during keep vein open (KVO). An alarm can be silenced even though the
panel is locked.
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