Operator's Manual

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Color Display
The CADD
®
-Solis pump display uses color to help the clinician recognize critical information quickly and
easily.
Protocol Screen Colors
Your facility may choose to relate a specific color to each protocol in its library. This is customizable by your
PharmGuard® Medication Safety Software system administrator. Protocols may be color coded in several
different ways depending on the needs of your pain management program, including:
• Route of administration (for example, all epidural protocols may be yellow, and used with a pump
with a yellow keypad, yellow cassette reservoir or administration set, yellow extension set, and a
yellow lockbox),
• Patient type (for example, all pediatric protocols may be blue),
• Or by any other hierarchy which fits the needs of your institution
There are five protocol colors available: purple, yellow, gray, blue, and green.
A protocol displayed in black signifies that the protocol being used is a non-standard protocol or that the
pump is programmed using the manual mode (see Manual Mode Programming on page 51).
Refer to your facility’s policies and procedures to understand how colors are used to identify your protocols.
Pump Status Colors
The pump colors green, amber, red, and blue are used to help the clinician recognize pump status. Similar to
a traffic control light: green means go, amber indicates caution, and red means stop:
• Green: Pump conditions are satisfactory. Green numbers in the work area indicate that a
programmed value falls within the soft limit range for the parameter.
• Amber: There is a condition to watch, but the current pump conditions are satisfactory. Medium
priority alarms and values outside soft limits display in amber.
• Red: There is a warning condition that requires immediate attention and infusion has stopped.
All high priority and system fault alarms display in red
• Blue: Low priority alarms and informational messages display in blue.
To understand how colors relate to alarm screens, refer to Types of Alarms on page 55.
Before Programming
Protocol libraries are created with the PharmGuard® Medication Safety Software and can be imported into
the pump by your PharmGuard® system administrator. Before programming the pump for a patient, make
sure the pump contains a protocol library. If you are not using the CADD
®
-Solis pump with a protocol library,
see Manual Mode Programming on page 51.
A protocol from the library may be manually edited in the PharmGuard® system administrator settings. If
you are authorized, see the Administrator Settings Guide or contact your facility’s PharmGuard® system
administrator for further information. Making edits to the protocol changes the settings for the current
protocol only. The edits do not change the settings for any future selections of the protocol from the library.