My apologies if it came across as a lecture or a lesson, unfortunately that's the way it comes out - just some observatons off the top of my head based on fixing them and setting up occlusion alarms using wet setups and force gauges. I'd always recommend a manufacturers course as a starter, I'm just discussing what I've seen and measured in practice. If anyone can add any extra knowledge, opinions or information I'd be grateful since I'm open to any servicing tips or observations that people have. Thanks.
Just one correction:
Losses will still vary in use on the patient as will the conditions at the infusion site (thus the occlusion alarm pressure will vary) but the maximum force generated by the syringe driver, hence maximum theoretical occlusion pressure, is fixed to an acceptable absolute maximum force measured by removing unknown sources of error in the calibration.
Do you change DU washers and PAB bearing on service Jerry?
