Cardinal Health Alaris Directions For Use Manual page 94

Primary Infusion
A bolus dose can be programmed at the beginning of, or
during, an infusion. The drug being programmed must be a
bolusable drug selected from the Drug Library or a non-library
drug, as described in the following procedures.
1. Set up infusion as described in "Continuous Infusion"
procedure, but do not start infusion.
BOLUS
2. Press soft key.
• If programmed continuous dose infusion is outside
Soft Limit for that care area, an audio alert sounds
and a visual prompt appears before programming can
continue. If Yes soft key is pressed, programming
continues; if No soft key is pressed, infusion needs to
be reprogrammed.
• If programmed continuous dose infusion is outside
Hard Limit for that care area, an audio alert sounds
and a visual prompt appears before programming can
continue. Infusion needs to be reprogrammed.
3. An optional hospital-defined and editable starting value
for bolus dose and/or bolus rate duration may already be
entered.
OR
To enter bolus dose, use numeric data entry keys.
• After a bolus dose and weight (if used) are entered,
bolus and concentration [conc] alternate in Main
VTBI
Display.
• If no weight has previously been programmed in
system and bolus dose is weight-based, weight entry
is empty.
• If programmed continuous dose is weight-based,
programmed weight displays.
If bolus dose is not weight-based, Not Used displays
•
PATIENT WEIGHT
in
2-30
Programming
- With Guardrails
®
Bolus Dose
field.
Suite MX Protection (Continued)
Alaris
Pump and Syringe Modules Section
FU
FU
RATE (mL/h)
RATE (mL/h)
CHANNEL
SELECT
CHANNEL
SELECT
PAUSE
PAUSE
CHANNEL
OFF
CHANNEL
OFF
RESTART
RESTART
Alteplase
A A A
Stroke
CONTINUOUS INFUSION
56.7
RATE mL/h
100
VTBI mL
0.81
DOSE
mg/kg/h
[Conc]: 1 mg/mL
>Press START
SETUP BOLUS
PAUSE START
Alteplase
A A A
Stroke
BOLUS DOSE
_ _ _ _
unit/kg
DOSE
PATIENT
WEIGHT
DURATION
[Conc]: 1 mg/mL
>Enter Bolus Dose
CONT-
SETUP
INUOUS
®
System (with v9 Model 8000) DFU