Seven volunteers aged 12.0 to 17.9 years participated in a trial to compare conventional insulin treatment with continuous open loop (pump) insulin infusion. After 6 weeks of conventional treatment followed by 6 weeks of insulin pump treatment, 4 children chose to manage their diabetes permanently by means of the insulin pump. The mean blood glucose concentration (based on home blood glucose mo...

Motivated by recent developments in bio-inspired medical engineering micro-scale pumps, this paper, a three-dimensional sequential simulation of peristaltic micro-pump is described to provide deeper insight into the hydromechanics laminar, viscous flow propulsion. The Carreau and power-law models are employed for non-Newtonian behavior. commercial software package ANSYS Fluent utilized conduct ...

BACKGROUND Random safety audits (RSA) are a safety tool enabling prevention of adverse events, but they have not been widely used in hospitals. The aim of this study was to use RSAs to assess and compare the frequency of appropriate use of infusion pump safety systems in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) before and after quality improvement interventions and to analyse the intravenous medic...

Envision a wireless patient monitoring system at a large busy hospital suddenly loses connection with several patients. The staff scrambles to reconnect the patients to wired monitors while the clinical engineering department tries to figure out the problem. The cause is traced to the new digital television broadcast which has completely overwhelmed the medical system.1 Consider drug infusion p...

The role of continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (insulin pumps) has become increasingly important in diabetes management, and many different types of these systems are currently available. This exploratory study focused on the reported heating issues that lithium-ion battery-powered pumps may have during charging compared with battery-operated pumps. It was found that pump temperature incr...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Indoor residual spraying (IRS) is a proven tool to reduce visceral leishmaniasis vectors in endemic villages. In India IRS is being done with stirrup pumps, whereas Nepal, Bangladesh, and other countries use compression pumps. The present study was conducted with the objectives to compare the efficiency, cost and user friendliness of stirrup and compression pumps. METH...

www.ejhp.org 54 INTRODUCTION Elastomeric devices are disposable infusion pumps mainly consisting of an elastomeric reservoir in which the solution to be administered is placed, and a flow restrictor system located in the administration tube set. The combination of both the pressure generated by the filled reservoir and the flow restrictor, sets a fixed flow rate of the solution according to Poi...