Cardinal Health Alaris 8000 Series, Directions For Use Manual

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Alaris
®
System Directions for Use ii
The Alaris
®
PC Point-of-Care Unit ("PC Unit") Section of this
Directions for Use ("
DFU
") provides procedures and
information applicable to the Alaris
®
System and the PC Unit.
Each of the other major Sections provides product-specific
procedures and information.
The Alaris
®
System (formerly known as "Medley
™
System") is
a modular system intended for adult, pediatric and neonatal
care in today’s growing professional healthcare environment.
It consists of the PC Unit, the Guardrails
®
Suite MX, and up to
4
detachable modules (or "channels") providing infusion,
monitoring and bar code scanning capabilities.
Guardrails
®
Suite MX for the Alaris
®
System brings a new
level of medication error prevention to the point of patient
care. The Guardrails
®
Suite MX features medication dosing,
concentration delivery rate and optional initial programming
guidelines for up to
15
patient-specific care areas, referred to
as profiles. Each profile contains a specific Guardrails
®
Drug
Library and channel labels, as well as instrument
configurations appropriate for the care area. Optional drug-
specific Guardrails
®
Clinical Advisories ("Clinical Advisory")
provide visual messages. Dosing limits for each Guardrails
®
Drug entry may be a Guardrails
®
Hard Limit ("Hard Limit") that
cannot be overridden during infusion programming and/or a
Guardrails
®
Soft Limit ("Soft Limit") that can be overridden,
based on clinical requirements.
A data set is developed and approved by the facility’s own
multi-disciplinary team using the Guardrails
®
Editor Software
("Editor Software"), the
PC
-based authoring tool. A data set is
then transferred to the Alaris
®
System by qualified personnel.
The approved data sets are maintained by the Editor
Software for future updates and reference.
Information about a Guardrails
®
Alert ("Alert") that occurs
during use is stored within the PC Unit, and can be accessed
using the Guardrails
® CQI
Reporter ("
CQI
Reporter").
Introduction
Read all instructions before using
the Alaris
®
System.
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