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We are looking to replace our Graseby ambulatory syringe drivers. I am trying to help the Nurse manager with the selection and purchase of a replacement driver. Help with two questions please, is it correct to assume that, at this moment the Mc Kinley T34 is the only pump available as a direct replacement for the MS16a/26, and am I right in assuming that there are no other ambulatory pumps in developement likely to be in competition with the T34 in the near future?.
Also, like a lot of trusts we have a large number of these devices and it will not be easy to convince the powers that be that this costly replacement is essential, therefore any information relating to a risk assessment for the MS16a/26 or business case for their replacement that anybody is able to share with me would be most appreciated.

Cheers
Steve

Check these links:
http://www.micrelmed.com/ A bit crude and no great shakes
http://www.zi-medical.com/ Distributed by Cardinal Health

The PCT we support bought around 80 McKinley T34's and touch wood we have had no warranty failures. Not bad for a new product.

Oh yes and this Cane Crono is an interesting little device - our community childrens nurses have a couple for special cases.

http://www.applied-medical.co.uk/product.shtml

Hope this helps..

Steve,
We went for the T34 and locked out a lot of the functions so it is just a 24hour paiative care pump. Very easy to use.
Have a look at the Cardinal/Alaris pump. I saw it when it first came out but have not heard about it since. It does not seem to be on their web site.
Robert
PS I have just read the post above about the Zi-Med pump. So that is where it went.

Thanks for the information guys.
Steve

Steve
I would not consider the Alaris/Zi-Med pump. Had a look at it when it first came out and found that it was very complicated to use from a nurse's point of view. The biggest drawback was that it rounds up the time for infusion and therefore you cannot get a 24hour infusion unless the drug volume divides exactly by 24. In addition, it only displays the drug volume/infusion rate to one decimal place (which aslo influences the calculation above).

The McKinley T-34 is "the one" (see the many earlier posts about them).

We replaced our MS26 syringe drivers in April 2008 with the McKinley T34s and out of the 40 purchased we have now had to return 5 under warranty.
It could be that the QC was not up to their usual standards as there appears to have been no problems with this item in other hospitals.

Iain

Thanks for that Iain.
How are the users getting on with the change to the T34s?.
I was talking to someone who used to work for both Graseby and McKinley and they were saying that the T34 was a good product but user training would most likley be the biggest issue for us here (very rural, relativly remote environment.

Cheers
Steve

Steve,

We have locked out most of the functions of the T34 so that it measures the contents of the syringe and calculates the rate to run it over 24hours. This means all the staff have to do is accept what the pump is telling them. This makes training very easy. No problem with reliability.
McKinley have a good user training session on their web site.

Robert

PS Alaris have changed their software to get rid of the problems mentioned above. It might be worth a look now. I have no experience of it.