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BD Alaris
TM
System with Guardrails
TM
Suite MX User Manual 85
Priming Administration Set With Pressure Sensing Disc
1. Ensure that administration set is not connected to patient.
2. If installed, remove pressure sensing disc from instrument.
Using a finger
, apply firm downward pressure on pressure sensing disc (not tubing) until disc snaps
loose from slot in pressure
sensing disc housing.
3. Invert pressure sensing disc so that patien
t side is up.
4. Hold pressure sensing disc between 2 fingers.
5. Slowly prime set while gently massaging pressure sensing disc to ensure that all air is expelled. The
disc must remain inverted only until the air is expelled. Continue to gently massage disc throughout
priming to ensure that it does not become under- or over-filled.
6. When priming is complete (no a
ir exists
), close set clamp.
NOTE:
When manually priming (per hospital/facility protocol) and an administration set having a pressure
sensing disc is in use, depress the disc between 2 fingers while priming and prime uphill (distal end of
pressure sensing disc/tubing pointing upward).
Priming Administration Set With No Pres
sure Se
nsing Disc
1. Prime per hospital protocol.
2. When priming is complete (no air exists
), close set clamp.
Eliminating Mechanical Slack
To eliminate mechanical slack or free play, and minimize start-up delays and delivery inaccuracies,
especially when infusing at low flow rates, it is recommended that the instrument be primed per the
following procedure.
1. Load syringe (see Loading on page 73). If
a pressure sensing disc is being used, do not install disc until
priming is complete.
2. Select syringe and infusion type (see Programming on
page 87 for more information).
3. Open administration set clamp.
The pressure sensing disc, if left installed during priming, can trap air that might not be totally
expelled. To ensure that entrapped air is eliminated, it is recommended that the pressure
sensing disc be removed prior to priming and the membrane gently massaged with a finger while
priming. After priming is completed, reinstall the pressure sensing disc.
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