Smart pump - air in line alerts

PLEASE NOTE:   Posts made to this forum should not be considered as the expressed opinions of, nor should be considered endorsed by, the Medication Safety Officer’s Society (MSOS) or the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP). 

Make sure your email is up-to-date
In order to continue to receive updates from MSOS, as well as forum posts and other valuable information as a member of MSOS, please be sure to update your email address with us, whenever it changes. If you need assistance doing so, please send an email to jgold@ismp.org

2 posts / 0 new
Last post
Julieth Formosa
Julieth Formosa's picture
Offline
Last seen: 2 months 2 weeks ago
Joined: 09/19/2019 - 14:40
Smart pump - air in line alerts

Hi all,

Are your nursing units reporting issues with air in line alerts for your smart pumps? My institution received multiple reports of smart pumps alerting and worked with the manufaturer to trial BBraun ASV valve tubing. The number of alerts were reduced but did not stop after this change. I'm curious to see if other institutions have made successful changes to reduce overalerting of pumps?