(1) Risks of consumable-specific infusion pumps:
A. Specialized consumables are high in cost, and hospitals and clinical departments have very few reserves, which often cannot be put into normal use due to lack of stock when the demand for resuscitation is imminent, or other tubing is used instead of it, which creates a specification of substituting the risk, especially for the general wards of large hospitals and all wards of small and medium-sized hospitals. This is especially true for general wards in large hospitals and all wards in small and medium-sized hospitals.
B. With the development of pharmaceutical technology, different kinds of drugs need different kinds of material pipelines to transport, for example, paclitaxel drugs, nitroglycerin drugs and blood products need different kinds of material pipelines to transport. Specialized consumable-based infusion pumps can only use one size of infusion set produced by the original manufacturer, which creates the risk of material mis-substitution.
(2) Benefits of consumable-specific infusion pumps:
A. Consumable-specific infusion pumps can ensure flow rate and volume accuracy if they are matched with specialized consumables provided by the original manufacturer.
B. Clinical staff are not allowed to use consumables from other manufacturers, which can avoid human errors during the process of changing consumables.
(2) Risk-benefit analysis of consumable open-type infusion pumps
(1 ) Risks of consumable open-type infusion pumps:
A. Consumable open-type opens up the calibration parameters of consumables to the hospitals and clinical departments, and the clinical staff may make human errors in the process of calibration of consumables and in the process of switching consumables.
B. The gravity infuser as a pressure infusion pump consumables need to be tested including: flow rate capacity characteristics, consumables anti-fatigue characteristics, running needle pressure-sensitive characteristics, accidental pill dose characteristics, etc., the clinical staff is not possible to conduct professional testing of these parameters. In other words, infusion pumps open consumables are also open to clinical risk.
(2) Consumables open infusion pump benefits:
A. Consumables open infusion pump main benefit lies in the manufacturer. On the one hand, they can publicize consumables open to expand sales, on the one hand, they can also let the clinical staff for them to complete the work of consumables calibration, reducing the cost of after-sales service. In fact, their most vicious trick is: if the clinical staff occurred in the wrong calibration, the wrong choice of infusion set of medical errors, they can shirk the responsibility. Because the manufacturer is not responsible for the matching of consumables.
B. Clinical staff also have some benefits, mainly in that the operation is very simple, in their words: "just get it done", because they can not think about the matching and safety of consumables. In reality, the biggest victim is the patient, who bears a huge medical risk.
(3) Analyzing the risk-benefit analysis of infusion pumps from the above two aspects will make people think: choosing an infusion pump is a dilemma proposition. The cost of using a consumable-specific infusion pump is too high, and the clinical risk of using a consumable-open infusion pump is too high.
In fact, this dilemma is completely solved by choosing those consumable-controlled infusion pumps. On the one hand, consumables-controlled infusion pumps allow clinical use of the full range of infusion sets in use in hospitals as consumables for infusion pumps, and on the other hand, they effectively control the four other predictable risks that can occur when gravity infusion sets are used on pressure infusion pumps.
That is, the consumable-controlled infusion pump is currently the only type of infusion pump that can safely use gravity infusion devices. It balances the precision and safety of consumable-specific infusion pumps, while overcoming the high cost of specialized consumables and avoiding the multiple clinical risks of consumable-open infusion pumps.