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That's nice feedback, Simon. But what about its verbosity, as mentioned by Jack and Mofe. Any problems with that?

I think you are confusing the Infusomat (volumetric pump) with the Perfusor (Syringe driver). I am looking for people with opinions of the former, but I would also be interested to hear what you think of the service from BBraun.

The second link shows them both, BSM, each as talkative as the other no doubt. But yes, let's hear from some people actually using them.

Well, the silence is deafening!

Either BBraun have a negligible install base, or..............

We have just taken delivery of 72 Infusomat Space pumps and only this week have put them in situ. Lets watch this space (no pun intended) over the next few weeks to see what happens. DD

After about 6 weeks working with these pumps we have noticed a possible problem. There appears to be an intermittent fault with up-stream occlusion. For no apparent reason the pump will fail up-stream occlusion, go into pause state awaiting the user to first accept the fault condition by pressing OK to silence the pump allowing quite time to assess what is wrong. Once sorted you should be able to just re-start the infusion. This is the problem area. For some reason it intermittently stays in the fault state and you can't recommence with the infusion. The quick fix is to open the door, close it and from there recommence with the previous therapy set. But even that takes 47secs to accomplish (not really a quick fix). You can imagine with trying to run inotropes through these pumps (I do appreciate not all areas use volumetric’s for this task) it causes a major problem. The company have been very pro-active in trying to assess what is wrong and I have to praise them for that. So my question is has any one else come across this problem? DD

we have just taken delivery of 70 odd with another 200 on the way. During pre installation testing one of the pumps did thsi but it was down to using the lines for so long they were starting to grow their own little sub world. Line changed all ok. Have had problems that they were running blood through them and have had a few air alarms. Turned the pump on its end and used the 200 micron (I think) line no problems. The only other thing it can be is when you load a set it says to leave the bag clamp on until it has done its stuff and then it tells you to open the clamp. (have they been opening the clamp too soon).

What we have found is that you will go to a broken pump and find the green release lever wont move. The door although open needs to be told to open again, they have just not caught the door when it has been closed. Tell tale sign is the green lever wont move and the metal clamp inside is closed.

The clamp is not being opened to early at initial set up. Where this problem has been seen is when the pump has actually been running for some time. Can you please elaborate the issue with the green release lever? Sounds familiar but haven't seen it myself.

I think you will find that if the lock-bolt on the door mechanism is closed, then the green safety clamp button cannot be pressed down.

I have seen it happen a couple of times. I think it can happen if the batteries run too low, as the pump closes the door lock-bolt before it shuts down. I believe this to be the case because whenever I have seen it, the pump has usually got a low battery charge.

If you come across this problem, you should be able to fix it by switching the pump on, and opening the door lock-bolt using the keypad. this will enable you to press the green safety clamp button down.

Note: If the clamp button is forced down, it can damage the clamp assembly.