One measures his blood sugar, and the other is a computerized pump that dispenses insulin.
The requirement of a patent intravenous line, necessitating an indwelling intravenous catheter and intravenous tubing that tethers the patient to a computerized pump attached to an intravenous pole, results in a risk of infection, reduced mobility, and analgesic gaps due to infiltration of the intravenous catheter or obstruction of the tubing.
The company looks for every chance it can get to bring its product, a computerized blood pump, to the attention of cardiologists, hospital procurement officers and others who make or influence decisions about cardiac treatment.
Yet another method involves a computerized injection pump that controls the rate of saline infusion and monitors pressures at the injection site; the epidural space is identified by a sustained pressure decrease [ 5].
The exponential decay of concentrations was obtained by a continuous dilution-elimination process using computerized peristaltic pumps (Masterflex, Cole-Parmer Instrument Co., Chicago, IL, USA) set to simulate half-lives of amoxicillin, clavulanic acid and cefditoren.
The key to the operation of this system was a solid-state detector integrated in line with a peristaltic pump and computerized control of the motion of liquids in the calibrated system.
Although Neptunes tracks revel in the mechanization of looped and programmed riffs pumped out by computerized sequencers, they often add an element that sounds winningly askew: the drooping, detuned notes in "I'm a Slave for U" or a drum-machine accent that lands just behind the beat.
The effect of computerized orders on detecting infusion pumps programming errors has never been studied.
While several centers have a policy of priming 0.75 ml medication from a computerized ambulatory drug delivery (CADD) Legacy pump (Smiths Medical, St Paul, MN, USA) into the new catheter before rapid sequence transfer of medication (personal communication with other pulmonary hypertension practitioners and specialty pharmacies), this does not account well for the above variables.
This article discusses the development and pilot testing of the PUMP UP program, a tailored computerized intervention, designed to improve 4 health outcomes.
Computerized health records are seen as financial pump-priming -- and a technology foundation -- for further investments in health technology.
