Can you imagine?
A pump with no power cords, that loads onto a multi-device pole clamp adapter, where up to four pumps & eight fluid channels, can be organized in the space and weight typically required by only one conventional IV pump.
Hundreds of clinicians provided input to our development effort. They asked us:
- To design something that is as simple to setup as gravity infusion
- To find a way to get rid of annoying and frequent air-in-line alarms
- To provide reliable battery operation, measured in days or weeks, not minutes
- To provide a means to avoid transcribing lots of data into and out of the pump
- To make the flow pattern gentle and completely continuous
- To design one device to satisfy all clinical situations, even in a code.
- To make the product less costly, like we see in consumer electronics
- To make the pump intuitive and safe without hours of training required
The result of this customer input evolved into a simple, low cost, yet highly portable new generation IV Smart Pump. There are only three internal moving parts to the system. Fluid gently, continuously and accurately "leaks" to the patient with precise monitoring of the situation using state-of-the-art pneumatic and optically based technologies . Air from the container and IV are actively eliminated. The pump is silent and so efficient that it can operate off AC power for many days on fully charged batteries. It can be used in any orientation relative to the patient and offers a brilliant high resolution color touch screen user interface.
While the benefits of a highly portable, safer and simplified infusion device are obvious, users will delight in dozens of other design features that will improve any IV therapy experience.