User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Table of contents
- List of figures
- CHAPTER 1 Description
- CHAPTER 2 Indications and contraindications
- CHAPTER 3 Personal Pump Communicator (PPC)
- CHAPTER 4 Pump implantation
- Preprogramming and pre-testing the Pump
- CHAPTER 5 Pump refill procedure
- CHAPTER 6 Explanting the Pump System
- CHAPTER 7 Warnings and precautions
- CHAPTER 8 Adverse reactions
- CHAPTER 9 System alarms and messages
- Pump alarms
- Alarm feedback
- Pump low battery
- Depleted pump battery
- System error
- Pump self test fail
- PPC low battery
- PPC alarms
- Low reservoir
- Empty reservoir
- Telemetry communication error
- Initialize alarm
- PPC not initialized
- Battery replacement
- Initialize to factory defaults
- Pump stopped
- Pump suspended
- Auto off
- Hourly maximum exceeded
- Pump alarm table
- Pump alarms
- CHAPTER 10 Troubleshooting Pump System under-delivery
- CHAPTER 11 Technical specifications
- APPENDIX A Label information symbol dictionary
- APPENDIX B Implant worksheet
- APPENDIX C Refill form
- APPENDIX D Precautions and general procedures
- APPENDIX E Pump rinse procedure
- 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
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Venting the Medtronic MiniMed refill syringe (optional)
In order to fill the Pump, it may be necessary to vent the headspace in the
Medtronic MiniMed refill syringe. Refill syringes do not have lubricant on the
syringe housing or on the plunger tip. Some syringes may be “sticky” and require
the venting procedure described below to assist the vacuum in the Pump to over-
come this condition.
To vent, hold the syringe with the refill needle pointing down. Vent the syringe
headspace by pulling back firmly on the plunger until the second sealing ring on
the rubber cap passes beyond the vent hole as shown in Figure 17.
Figure 17: Venting the refill syringe
NOTE: Be sure that the plunger is retracted far enough
that the vent hole is exposed. The syringe must
be held with the needle facing down and used
within 10 minutes once it is vented. If this time
limit is exceeded, repeat the degassing
procedure and re-vent.