4.4.10 Presetting The Heating Duration And Starting The "User" Program; 4.4.11 Heating In Continuous Operation - Barkey plasmatherm Instructions For Use Manual

4.4.10 Presetting the heating duration and starting the "USER" program

WARNING
Plasma, blood and HPC may only be heated for a limited period of time!
Do not use the device to keep these products warm indefinitely!
WARNING
Blood/whole blood may not be heated up if the current operating temperature of
the device is over 37 °C. The device will display a warning message in this case.
The process for presetting the heating duration and starting the "PLASMA" program was
described in the Chapters Selecting and starting the "PLASMA" program and Messages
at the start of a program; to preset the heating duration and start the "USER" program,
please proceed in the same way but select "USER" instead of "PLASMA" as the program.
Other parameters in the "USER" program can only be set in the service menu (see sepa-
rate service instructions). Since there is a danger that the products that are being heated
might be impaired or destroyed due to incorrect parameter settings, you should always
observe the following safety information.
WARNING
The undulation function should not be used while heating up blood conserves or
erythrocyte concentrates so as to avoid mechanical stress on the cellular material or
prevent agglutination.
WARNING
Setting up the "USER" program should only be carried out and documented by ex-
perienced medical personnel to prevent harmful operating temperatures and times.

4.4.11 Heating in continuous operation

WARNING
Plasma, blood and HPC may only be heated for a limited period of time!
Do not use the device to keep these products warm indefinitely!
You may only use continuous operation for non-denaturable products such as
common salt solution!
Starting the "PLASMA" program was described by way of example in the Chapters Se-
lecting and starting the "PLASMA" program and Messages at the start of a program; to
start the "CONTINUOUS" program, please proceed in the same way but select
"CONTINUOUS" instead of "PLASMA" as the program.
Operation