syringe driver

Syringe drivers may be used with the syringe as well.

This is injected, usually automatically, by a syringe driver, at a rate of up to 8 ml.

Syringe drivers are also useful for delivering IV medications over several minutes.

When used in the palliative care of cancer patients, diacetylmorphine is often injected using a syringe driver.

The diluted Iloprost should be delivered by an accurate rate delivery system such as a syringe driver.

I wanted to ask if she had died peacefully, whether they had used a syringe driver, if there'd been anyone to comfort her.

The ward had settled now and was quiet, the only noise the whir of syringe drivers, the occasional equipment alarm.

In enzyme kinetics syringe drivers can be used to observe rapid kinetics as part of a stopped flow apparatus.

Her mother found that she had disconnected her morphine from the syringe driver and connected it to a Hickman line to be fed directly into a vein.

Palliative Care Physicians will commonly prescribe it via subcut syringe drivers in combination with more potent opiate analgesics such as Hydromorphone.

The most popular use of syringe drivers is in palliative care, to continuously administer analgesics (painkillers), antiemetics (medication to suppress nausea and vomiting) and other drugs.

If repeated medication is needed, a syringe driver (called an infusion pump in the US) is likely to be used, to deliver a steady low dose of medication.

Basil Martin Wright (20 December 1912 - 4 March 2001) was a British bioengineer who invented several notable medical instruments, including the peak flow meter and syringe driver.

Diacetylmorphine continues to be widely used in palliative care in the United Kingdom, where it is commonly given by the subcutaneous route, often via a syringe driver, if patients cannot easily swallow oral morphine solution.

As soon as regulars at the Stirrup pub in Birkenhead heard about his request, they arranged fund-raising events and collected £1,819 for equipment, including two syringe drivers and two special mattresses for cancer patients.

The money was raised for the purchase of a syringe driver, and in her letter of thanks, the Hospice Matron said: 'These pumps are extremely useful, and give many people the kind of pain relief that is sometimes difficult to achieve by other means.

A syringe driver or syringe pump is a small infusion pump (some include infuse and withdraw capability), used to gradually administer small amounts of fluid (with or without medication) to a patient or for use in chemical and biomedical research.

Called TCI (target controlled infusion), this involves using a computer-controlled syringe driver (pump) to infuse propofol throughout the duration of surgery, removing the need for a volatile anaesthetic, and allowing pharmacologic principles to more precisely guide the amount of infusion of the drug.