Operator's Manual

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General Description
General Description
General Description
Introduction
The CADD
®
-Solis Ambulatory Infusion System provides measured drug therapy to patients in hospital or
outpatient settings. Therapy should always be overseen by a physician or a certified, licensed healthcare
professional. As appropriate, the patient should be instructed in using the pump.
Indications
The CADD
®
-Solis Ambulatory Infusion Pump is indicated for intravenous, intra-arterial, subcutaneous,
intraperitoneal, in close proximity to nerves, into an intraoperative site (soft tissue, body cavity/surgical
wound site), epidural space, or subarachnoid space infusion. The pump is intended for therapies that require
a continuous rate of infusion, and/or an intermittent bolus, and/or with patient-controlled demand doses.
Contraindications
• The pump is not to be used for delivery of blood or cellular blood products, as blood and cellular blood
products will be damaged by the pumping mechanism.
• This pump is not to be used in any intra-articular space infusion.
Epidural/Subarachnoid Administration
The selected drug must be used in accordance with the indications included in the package insert
accompanying the drug. Administration of any drug by this pump is limited by any warnings, precautions, or
contraindications in the drug labeling.
Smiths Medical has performed neurotoxicological testing using 0.9% saline to represent aqueous drugs
infused into epidural and subarachnoid spaces.
WARNING:
• Do not administer drugs to the epidural space or subarachnoid space unless the drug is indicated for
administration to those spaces. Drugs not intended for epidural or subarachnoid space infusion could
result in serious patient injury or death.
• To prevent the infusion of drugs that are not indicated for epidural space or subarachnoid space infusion,
DO NOT use administration sets that incorporate injection sites. The inadvertent use of injection sites for
infusion of such drugs may cause serious patient injury or death.
• If a CADD™ medication cassette reservoir, CADD
®
extension set, or CADD
®
administration set is used
for epidural space or subarachnoid space drug delivery, it is strongly recommended that it be clearly
differentiated from those used for other routes of infusion (for example, by color coding, or other means
of identification). Drugs not intended for epidural or subarachnoid space infusion could result in serious
patient injury or death.
Analgesics
Administration of analgesics to the epidural space is limited to use with indwelling catheters specifically
indicated for either short or long-term drug delivery.
Anesthetics
Administration of anesthetics to the epidural space is limited to use with indwelling catheters specifically
indicated for short-term drug delivery.
Delivery Methods
The pump provides the following methods of delivery:
• Continuous rate: infusion of drug at a constant, programmed rate