Has anyone had any problems with a Volumetric or Syringe pump set to deliver at its lowest level of administration (i.e. 0.1ml/hr)and then moving onto 0.5 or 3mls/hr KVO mode?.This might only occur within the Critical care environment but if the patient was in receipt of say an inotrope,naturally the implications of moving from 0.1 to thirty times the set rate could be serious.The KVO can be configured to run at the same rate of delivery for the devices I am using and I imagine that ideally a syringe pump should only be used for IV delivery of such a low rate.However staff here use a volumetric pump at 0.1ml/hr within the ITU and I wanted to ask anyone if you have had a similar situation.We have an equipment library and the pumps would either all need to be re-configured or individually assigned to certain areas.I would welcome your thoughts/experiences.
Regards,
John Riddle
