Hi Folks
we have the Infusomat infusion pumps at our hospital and we are having major problems infusing blood. The problem is when infusing blood the accumalative air alarm keeps activating.i am dealing with Braun concerning this problem and their atitude is that our staff are not following the correct proceedures and there is nothing wronge with the pumps.

Are any of you having the same problem?
if yes what is being done to correct the problem?

your comments are apprieciated.

richard

Hello Richard,

One of our departments here had exactly the same problem.

Talks with Braun revealed the problem is with the giving set and not the pump, therefore Braun are in the process of producing a new giving set primarily for giving blood.

Nothing to do with your staff or procedures whatsoever.

Hope this helps

Rob

Hi Rob

thanks for your reply
what hospital do you work for?

regards

richard

We have special b braun pumps for blood on the paediatric unit and different sets. Not sure how the pumps are different to the normal ones, they look the same, I think it is in the programing.

Hi Richard
We have a good number here in Edinburgh and have set the accumulative alarm to the max of 3.8ml/hr. Have you done the same? In saying that we still have alarms regarding this. At the moment I am looking into a Datix report on this very point but similar to everyone else I am sooooo busy!
Dave D

Hi Dave

What is the Datix report?
is there any chance you can send me a copy or let me know where i can get it?
we have set all our pumps to 3.8ml per hour but the problem is persistant.

regards

richard

Hi, We have these pumps and the Blood giving sets. The problem is also when giving TPN. I have been in contact with Braun loads of times also gave more indepth training to our staff here (teaching some of them was like teaching granny to suck eggs) but i covered all bases regarding Braun saying it was user error!. However we still do have a problem sometimes. We have cranked up the setings as much as poss but still probs. I was told a while ago that some new software might have to put on them .... but as yet i havnt heard anymore.
so now i just hand over any 'faulty' pump to the boys at meed
and smile.

Richard
"Datix" is our in-house incident reprorting system. I would be unable to send any reports because of that, sorry.

Dave

Hi All

i am meeting with B-Braun in two weeks concerning our problems with blood transfusions.If anybody else out there has the same problems with bood/tpn infusions i would like to hear from you also if you use th B-Braun and have no problems with blood/tpn infusions.the more info i get the better position i will be in when we meet B-Braun.

regards

richard

Hi Richard,
I have started an audit of my 'faulty' pumps, so can keep you in touch with my findings.
Good luck with Braun and any different answers they come up with I will definatly like too hear if thats ok?

Regards Liz.