Introduction - Cardinal Health Alaris Directions For Use Manual

The Alaris ® PC unit Section of this Directions for Use ("
provides procedures and information applicable to the Alaris
System and the PC Unit. Each of the other major Sections
provides product-specific procedures and information.
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The Alaris System is a modular system intended for adult,
pediatric and neonatal care in today's growing professional
healthcare environment. It consists of the PC Unit, the
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Guardrails Suite
MX
monitoring modules (channels). The Auto-ID Module can be
included as a fifth module.
Guardrails ® Suite
MX
level of medication error prevention to the point of patient
care. The Guardrails
concentration delivery rate and optional initial programming
guidelines for up to
15
to as profiles. Each profile contains a specific Drug Library
and channel labels, as well as instrument configurations
appropriate for the care area. Optional drug-specific Clinical
Advisories provide visual messages. Dosing limits for each
Guardrails ® drug entry may be a Hard Limit that cannot be
overridden during infusion programming and/or a Soft Limit
that can be overridden, based on clinical requirements.
A Data Set is developed and approved by the facility's own
multi-disciplinary team using the Editor Software, the
authoring tool. A Data Set is then transferred to the Alaris
System by qualified personnel. The approved Data Sets are
maintained by the Editor Software for future updates and
reference.
Information about an Alert that occurs during use is stored
within the PC Unit, and can be accessed using the CQI
Reporter.
Documentation provided with Alaris
may reference product not present in your facility or not yet
available for sale in your area.
A superscript number (for example, ) identifies additional
information provided as a
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Introduction

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