Product Info Part 4
Table Of Contents
- APPENDIX D Precautions and General Procedures
- Special note and precautions
- General procedures
- Locating the pump fill port and the side port
- Venting the Minimed refill syringe (optional)
- APPENDIX E Pump Rinse Procedure
- Preparing for the procedure
- Remove insulin from the Pump and fill with NaOH
- Equilibrate and pull NaOH through system
- APPENDIX F Side Port Catheter Flush Procedure
- Supplies and solutions
- Preparing for the procedure
- Flushing the Side Port Catheter
- Program minimal basal rate
- Remove insulin and fill with rinse buffer
- Equilibrate and pull rinse buffer through system
- Flush side port catheter
- Remove rinse buffer and fill with insulin
- Equilibrate and pull insulin through system
- Remove guide needles and record refill amount
- Program new basal rate
- Remove rinse buffer from catheter
- APPENDIX G Stroke Volume Measurement
- Supplies and Solutions
- APPENDIX H Pressure Measurement Using The Side Port Catheter
- Supplies and solutions
- Measuring pressure in the side port
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should be available to use as needed)
• Eight (8) sharp 18 gauge regular bevel needles
• One (1) 10 or 20 mL Luer Lock
®
syringe
• One (1) stopcock - 2 way
Solutions
• Seven (7) 10 mL vials, Aventis rinse buffer solution
• Five (5) 10 mL vials, aventis HOE 21 PH, U-400 Insulin
NOTE: One-handed flush with a 10-20 mL syringe only.
Preparing for the procedure
NOTE: Before beginning any refill, flush, stroke volume
measurement, carefully read Appendix D, Precau-
tions and General Procedures, and keep this in
mind as you perform each procedure.
In order to prepare for the Side Port Catheter rinse and flush procedure, a
total of five different refill syringes and one 10 or 20 ml syringe will need
to be labeled and prepared with different solutions. Table 2 defines the
syringe numbers and corresponding solutions.
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