Is your IV smart pump smart enough? Despite nearly two decades of innovations that have helped improve patient safety—from dose-error reduction software (DERS) to IV-EHR interoperability—too many IV smart pumps on the market today still leave patient safety risks unaddressed. With safety standards continuing to evolve, count on Plum 360 to keep leading the way.
The Best in KLAS Plum 360 infusion system earned the highest rating for pump performance four years in a row (2021 Smart Pumps – EMR-Integrated; 2018, 2019, 2020 Smart Pumps) and gives you automatic safety with unmatched efficiency and interoperability in one connected IV system.
With 48% of secondary infusions being shown to have at least one setup error,1 it’s easy to see why improving secondary delivery safety is of primary importance.
The unique delivery system of the Plum 360 draws medication directly from the secondary container, eliminating the risk for common secondary setup errors. With a direct connection, there’s no need to adjust IV container head height to assure your secondary infusions are delivered properly. This eliminates the risk of pressure differential errors, which are the most common secondary setup errors.1 In an environment where your infusion pumps are integrated with your EHR, this means that not only can you trust that your infusions are being delivered accurately and on time, but you can trust that the data recorded is actually correct. In addition, the Plum 360 will alert you if a clamp is closed, eliminating the risk for another common secondary error, so you can focus on patient care, not the setup of your infusion pump.
With the Plum 360’s unique cassette technology, you can deliver two compatible medications at independent rates through a single line, letting you deliver the secondary medication without pausing the primary. The PlumSet™ cassette also provides the flexibility to administer from either a syringe or a solution container through a direct secondary connection.
The “Guidelines for Optimizing Safe Implementation and Use of Smart Infusion Pumps” issued by The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) in February 2020 urges hospitals to: Choose smart infusion pumps that default directly to programming in Dose Error Reduction Software (DERS), and Establish organizational expectations for the use of DERS that maximizes compliance to 95% or higher for medication administration. The Plum 360 with ICU Medical MedNet software meets both of these guidelines with programming that defaults to DERS and average compliance rates of 98%.
