title: Evaluation report: infusion pumps.
abstract: 'Health Equipment Information', No. 147, published in October 1985, is the fifth in the series dealing with infusion pumps and contains evaluation reports on five volumetric devices. These are the Braun Infusomat Secura, the Ivac 560, the Ivac Neo-mate 565, the Travenol 6100 and the Travenol 8000. Technical performance assessment was carried out at the Bath Institute of Medical Engineering, and user assessment undertaken at various hospitals within the Bath District Health Authority. For full details of the evaluation findings readers should consult 'HEI' 147 - the following are only extracts from the report. ('HEI' is free to appropriate NHS staff, who should request copies from their Regional or District Administrator. Others can order the journal [pounds 5/copy, cash with order] from DHSS [Leaflets], PO Box 21, Stanmore, Middlesex HA7 1AY, UK.)
mesh_terms: D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D007263:Infusions, Parenteral / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013678:Technology, Pharmaceutical / Q000295:instrumentation*