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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Syringe 6: Insulin
14. Weigh and record the combined weight of syringes 5 and 6 on the
Refill Form. Prime the needles.
15. Close the stopcock. Enter the Pump fill port with the refill needle.
16. Open the stopcock and allow the Pump to fill completely with INSU-
LIN. When the fluid level stops moving, the Pump is filled. Approx-
imately 10 mL of INSULIN will remain in the syringe. Leave the
syringe in place for the next step.
Equilibrate and pull insulin through system
The reservoir pressure in the Pump is equilibrated with outside ambient
pressure and INSULIN is pulled through the fluid system. This procedure
uses the following volumes in syringes 5 and 6:
• Syringe 6 with residual INSULIN from the previous step
• Syringe 5 with 5 mL solution
Syringe 6: Insulin (residual)
Syringe 5: Solution
1. Maintain syringe 6 with approximately 10 mL of residual insulin in
the Pump fill port. Verify that the stopcock on syringe 6 is open.
2. Prime the syringe 5 needle and close the stopcock.
3. Obtain a vacuum in syringe 5 by pulling back on the plunger until it
locks. Press the lock into the plunger groove and be sure it is firmly
secured.
4. Enter the side port with syringe 5 - stopcock closed.
5. Open the stopcock on syringe 5.
6. Press SEL. When the PPC screen is flashing “PUMP SUSPEND”
press ACT. The system is now in normal mode.
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