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Hello All
We are looking at marking equipment to indicate if an item has a high or low risk training requirement for controls assurance purposes.
Our thoughts are along the lines of a red or green triangle?
Can anyone suggest a better idea or, more inportantly if there are any standard marking requirements laid down - I can't find any.
I would seem sensible that there should be a common system as a fair number of nurses tend to move from one hospital to another.
Thanks
Phil

Phil
At Portsmouth we use the "old" MHRA classification for our infusion/syringe pumps. This is as follows:
Red Triangle - High Risk Infusions
Blue Triangle - Neonatal Infusions
Yellow Triangle - Low Risk Infusions
Green Triangle - Ambulatory Infusions
Each device has an appropriate sticker placed on it eg. Graseby 500 has a Red and Blue Triangle.
The MHRA changed its classification a couple of years ago but it is very woolly and has no clear definitions, so we have stayed with the old system.

There’s nothing so permanent as a temporary solution that works!

Has there been any movement on this issue, I wonder? Coloured triangles sound OK to me. What does the MHRA say nowadays? But, there again, how many places bother with such a scheme at all? Are we only talking about infusion devices here? Is there a real need, or not? (...that's five questions)

I too would be interested in the "latest" from the MHRA regarding this. Also, is it a requirement to classify and mark your equipment appropriately? For whose benefit is this?

I've just been reading the article by Mr W O M Davis on infusion devices on the front page of this web site. It seems to have been taken from the MHRA education program and includes their classification categories of A, B & C dependent on the pumps application. Not sure if that helps though.