Infusion Pumps Articles & Analysis: Older
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Augment contractions with an intravenous oxytocin infusion during the second stage—when necessary, and only where safe to do so—if contractions have become infrequent, providing the fetal heart rate remains normal. ...
The ability of a bioactive Matrix Metalloproteinase (MMP) inhibitor, and more importantly its metabolic products, to affect cells in the brain by crossing the physiological blood-brain barrier was tested by continuous infusion of this drug into the circulatory system of mice using a programmable syringe pump.2 Accurate infusion of a GABA agonist, ...
Other documented incidences include infusion pumps flying into scanners (luckily no patient harm occurred); while another, oxygen tank incident, resulted in minor injuries to hospital staff . ...