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Breigh Ridley & Jeanie Misko
Pharmacy Department, FSH
Smart Infusion Pumps –
from commissioning to real world use:
the Fiona Stanley Hospital experience
Introduction - what is a smart pump?
• Infusion device
utilising smart
technology for central
programming of drug
protocol libraries
(‘profiles’)
• 659 PC units
• Updated via Wi-Fi
Background: Pre commissioning
Clinical Readiness:
Training
Identification of required profile areas
Data entry – 10 weeks
Clinical Review x 2 weeks
Dataset sign off
Weekly project team meetings and ongoing
stakeholder engagement
Technical Readiness:
Parallel program to ensure data sets can
be uploaded and are operational on
the devices
Project completed on Friday 26th
September 2014
14 weeks
Guardrails Editor
• Guardrails® Editor Software allows:
• development of intravenous fluid and
medication dosing and delivery guidelines
• programming of device configuration
Soft limit: can be overridden by the user by accepting an alert message
Hard limit: cannot be overridden by the user but may be bypassed by restarting the infusion pump in basic infusion mode
Continuous infusion +/- Bolus Dose 2 x Therapies
Weight based vs non-weight based
Continuous Infusion:
dosing units and infusion rate ranges
Bolus dose (disabled)
Select concentration and delivery method
Concentration limits if
variable dose option
enabled
Background: FSH commissioning
Phases III & IV February 2015 Haematology /
Oncology Paediatric General
Paediatric Critical Care
Training Profiles
Phase II November 2014
No major changes
Phase I October 2014 Adult
General Adult Critical
Care Obstetrics Neonates
Training Profiles
What happens in the real world
• New datasets released approx. monthly
– On average 5-10 updates per dataset
release. All updates DTC approved.
– Common changes:
• alignment with updated or new guidelines
• modifying limits to match clinical practice based
on CQI data
• new evidence
• addition of newly released drugs.
Updating the Dataset
Implementation by Wi-Fi using Alaris Systems Manager
Dataset review using Continuous Quality
Improvement (CQI) tool
Dataset updates
Test updates
Nursing review
HOS review and approval
DTC approval IPA
applications and drug formulary
submissions to the DTC
Feedback from medical, nursing and
pharmacy staff
CQI Reporter Tool
• Manual process, data doesn’t come
through in real time
• Run monthly
• Uses
– track compliance with Guardrails
– review recorded alerts
– review near miss events
Noradrenaline – May 2015
• Soft max is 25microg/min for all noradrenaline inf.
• Minimise alerts by increasing the soft maximum
of each concentrations: – Single strength (4mg/50mL, 8mg/100mL) – increase the soft
maximum to 28mcg/min
– Double strength (8mg/50mL, 16mg/100mL) – increase the soft
maximum to 56mcg/min
– Quad strength(16mg/50mL, 32mg/100mL) – increase the soft
maximum to 112mcg/min
Noradrenaline – August 2015
• 312 alerts
• 86.5% overrides of soft limits
• Reduction of unnecessary alerts
minimising user alert fatigue
Blood product Includes all blood products – from albumin to tetanus IG
(most common: PRBC, platelets)
• 1794 alerts
• 72.7% overrides of soft limits (1-2.499 times limit)
• Mainly in Haem/Onc profile
• Consult with Cancer Centre nurses – run
at maximum rate while priming, then
slow down (usually to soft maximum)
• On discussion, left at same limits
Piperacillin/tazobactam
• 1624 alerts
• 69.9% partial dose infusion alert
– When VTBI is 60% less or 125% more than diluent
volume
• e.g. an alert is generated when VTBI:
– <30mL or >62.5mL for 4.5g/50mL
• ‘Deep-diving’ into more reports indicated
practice on floor is to program VTBI of 80mL
for 4.5g/50mL (50mL minibag + 30mL
dissolved drug)
Piperacillin/tazobactam
• To ensure patient receives the prescribed and
programmed dose a recommendation was made
to the DTC, approved in January 2015 &
communicated to nursing staff
Is the message getting through?
For intermittent & continuous infusions the drug diluent volume must be removed from the infusion bag
before drug is added to bag
Lessons learnt
• Wi-Fi is a must for updating!
• Reliable, real time pump tracking preferred
• Significant stakeholder engagement including
medical input for dataset review
• Strong governance structure & change control
pre and post implementation
• Have guidelines in place before developing
dataset
• Clear delineation of expectations of pharmacy
Conclusion
• Limitations:
– Paediatric dose banding
– Maximum of 1 PCA module
– IT overload in a new environment
– Doesn’t replace a brain/common sense!
• Positive effect on medication safety
• Raised the profile of pharmacy
• Successful implementation & post go-
live
Near Miss Events
• Benzylpenicillin 3.6g: exceeds hard max
– Infusion not given, dosing discussed with pharmacist and
then medical staff reduced to 2.4g
• Multiple reports of insulin infusions being run outside
of Guardrails in a 50mL minibag outside of hospital
guidelines. All reports indicated the remaining VTBI
did not match the actual volume remaining in the
bag. Use of Guardrails encourages compliance with
hospital guidelines of 50 units Actrapid® in a 50mL
syringe driver and ensure infusion rates remain
within the expected range