Who is responsible for (maint, QC ) infusion pump? DO you specify in your SOP that it's nursing dept. is responsible? or DO not even mention that in blood bank SOP?

Infusion pumps are not mentioned in our SOP. Maintenance is done by nursing and biomed.

Our facility recently converted to Alaris Smart Pumps. There are over 1000 pumps between our two sites. They are maintained and QC'd by Biomedical. We have no mention of them in our SOPs.

Same here, we have nothing to do with infusion pumps. When they were looking for some new ones I suggested stongly that they make sure the manufacturer indicated they could be used for blood products. Other than that I'm completely out of the loop.

My staff always find it difficult to answer most questions from the nurses concerning blood infusion. Nurses often depend on blood bankers and expect all answers when it comes to blood administration. Can we have some information about this. Questions about what type of infusion set to use, how long to run the blood, how often to change the pumps, how much blood an individual could possibly have and why can't we use the same tubing used for blood to run components as well. I also would like to hear about blood warmer.

Thanks,

Norma