title: Assessment of drug delivery devices.
abstract: For critical drug delivery, it is important to have a constant and well-known infusion rate delivered by the complete infusion set-up (pump, tubing, and accessories). Therefore, various drug delivery devices and accessories were tested in this article in terms of their infusion accuracy, start-up delay, response time, and dependency on the viscosity. These measurements were performed as part of the European funded research project MeDD. The obtained results show that the infusion accuracy of the devices is flow rate and accessory depended, especially for low flow rates. Viscosity does not have a significant impact on the flow rate accuracy.
authors.forename: Elsa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Batista
authors.forename: Nelson
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Almeida
authors.forename: Andreia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Furtado
authors.forename: Eduarda
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Filipe
authors.forename: Luis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sousa
authors.forename: Rui
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Martins
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lucas
authors.forename: Harm Tido
authors.initials: HT
authors.lastname: Petter
authors.forename: Roland
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Snijder
authors.forename: Annemoon
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Timmerman
mesh_terms: D016503:Drug Delivery Systems / Q000379:methods*; D004867:Equipment Design / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012107:Research Design; D014783:Viscosity