Infusions in the study were of high-alert IV medications with more than 2,000 initial infusion programming starts.

Summary: A multidisciplinary team conducted a FMEA to guide the implementation of a smart i.v. pump that was designed to prevent pump programming errors.

Working with EMR vendor Cerner and infusion pump supplier Hospira, the hospital has been able to cut the amount of time nurses spend programming infusion pumps by nearly one-quarter and the ...

Most importantly, the pump had drug-library programming with dosing alerts based on customer preset limits and did not use trailing zeroes on the pump interface.