Affordable Medical Infusion IV Pump automates a repetitive hospital technique that directly impacts patients. Yet they are the medical device associated with the highest number of technical complaints, or adverse events, according to techno-surveillance reports from the Agencia Nacional de Vigilancia Sanitaria (ANVISA).

A recent study of point of care IV medication administration errors in a large hospital system found that nurses who were required to verify patient identification by checking barcodes on smart pump screens had significantly reduced rates of wrong time, omitted drug, incorrect dose type and the most serious error, unauthorized patient medication. This finding is a stark contrast to the prevailing paradigm of deriving metrics of IV medication administration errors from self-reporting by nurses and physicians.

Affordable Medical Infusion IV Pump: Quality and Cost-Effective Solutions

This new data supports the importance of using clear and well-presented information in a way that is easy for healthcare workers to read. A well-designed smart pump screen that displays accurate patient identifiers and medication names that correspond to physician orders could reduce these errors, as well as other error types like occlusions, incorrect infusion rate, air in the line, or low battery, and improve patient outcomes and safety.

A more efficient and cost-effective alternative to purchasing and integrating the latest IV infusion pump models may be a rental agreement with an established biomedical equipment service provider that offers EHR integration with device history. These services include device calibration, maintenance, testing and most repairs easing the burden on hospital BMETs and equipment managers.