Smiths Medical infusion pump safety
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Firm's CADD-Sentry Pro medication safety software gains 510(k) clearance, Smiths Medical announces Jan. 29. The software, for use with the firm's CADD-Prizm PCS II ambulatory infusion pump, enables clinicians to program pain therapy protocols via a hospital's computer network before downloading them to the pump instead of programming pumps individually. The software also incorporates bar code verification as an additional safety feature. FDA has highlighted the importance of human factors engineering in infusion pumps to reduce programming errors after seizing pumps from Baxter (Colleague) and Cardinal Health (Alaris SE) (1"The Gray Sheet" Sept. 4, 2006, p. 3)...
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