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VamP Jr. System inservice BulletinVenous arterial blood management Protection systemSafe and Accurate Closed Blood Sampling SystemFeaturing the Edwards TruWave Disposable Pressure Transducer

3 ProvideflowbypullingSnap-Tab

oftheEdwardsTruWave

disposable pressuretransducer.

Slowlydeliverprimingsolutiontoremoveair.

4 Closeplungerandremoveallairfromthesystem.EnsurethatVAMPJr.andcatheterconnectionisafluid-to-fluidconnection.

1 Openreservoirplungertoapproximately

1/2cctofacilitateflowofprimingsolution.

2 Withtheshut-offvalveintheopenposition(paralleltothetubing),holdsamplingsiteabove

theEdwards VAMPJr.

reservoirat45°angle.

6 Closetheproximalshut-offvalveby

turninghandleperpendicular

totubing.

5 Closethedistalshutoffvalvebyturningthehandleperpendiculartothetubing.Smoothlyandevenlypulluponthereservoirplungertodrawtherequiredamount

ofclearingvolumeconsistentwiththepatient’sclinicalcondition,patient’ssize,oryourhospital

protocol.(Recommendedpullrateis1ccevery 10-15seconds.)

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Drawing BlooD SamPleS from the VamP Jr. neeDleleSS SamPling Site

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10 Opentheproximalshut-offvalvebyturninghandleparalleltotubing.

11 Slowly,smoothly,andevenly,pushdownontheplungeruntilitisfullyclosed.(Recommendedrateis1ccevery10-15seconds.)

12 Fillsyringewith flushsolution. AttachInterlink NeedleLess cannulatothe syringe.Ensure syringeandcannula arefreeofairbubbles. Swabdistalaccessport. Insertsyringeand cannulaintothe distalaccessport.Slowlyflushlineperhospital

procedure.Openthedistalone-wayvalve.

7 Swabproximalsamplesite.Ensureplungerisdepressedtothebottomofthesyringe.Attachcannula.Pushcannulaintoproximalsamplesite.

9 Whileholdingthecannula,removethesyringe/

cannulafromthesamplingsitebypullingstraightout.

8 Slowlydrawthebloodsample.