Features And Displays - Cardinal Health Alaris 8000 Series Directions For Use Manual

Features and Definitions
Reference the product-specific Section of this
and definitions specific to that module.
Data Set
Guardrails Suite MX
®
Patient ID Entry
Profile
Alaris System Directions for Use
®
PC Unit Section

Features and Displays

DFU
Created using Editor Software authoring tool and then transferred to
PC Unit. A data set reflects facility's best-practice guidelines for
Drug administration and includes: Profile Drug Libraries, Clinical
Advisories, instrument configurations, and Channel Label Libraries.
Designed to help prevent programming errors by:
• Customizing device configurable settings to meet need of
selected hospital/facility area/unit (profile).
• Comparing user programming with hospital-defined best-practice
guidelines.
• Providing a prompt if an out-of-limits entry is made.
An optional alphanumeric
entered and displayed.
• When enabled,
• When disabled,
screen.
A unique set of system configuration settings and best-practice
guidelines for a specific patient population or patient type, and can
consist of following components:
• Instrument configuration settings.
• A Drug Library, which includes Drug names, standard
concentrations, dosing units, duration limits, and optional
associated Clinical Advisories for both continuous and bolus dose
infusion.
• An Fluid Library, an optional library consisting of
IV
example,
TPN
• A Channel Label Library with text (alphanumeric) labels, which
allows identification (on modules) that can be used to indicate
route of delivery (for example, epidural).
Profile settings are established by the facility's own multi-disciplinary
team prior to system implementation. Profile parameters are used to
create a data set, which is then transferred to the PC Unit.
that applies to the attached module(s) for features
-character patient identifier can be
16
entry defaults to Startup screen.
ID
entry is only accessible from System Options
ID
) and limits around rate of delivery.
IV
fluids (for
IV
1-25
General Information