An infusion pump infuses fluids, medication or nutrients into a patient`s circulatory system. It is generally used intravenously, although subcutaneous, arterial and epidural infusions are occasionally used. Infusion pumps can administer fluids in ways that would be impractically expensive or unreliable if performed manually by nursing staff. For....
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If your baby is not well enough to have milk feeds, he/she will need to be fed by inserting a small tube into a vein (a drip). A dextrose (sugar) solution, possibly with other fluids is given. To make sure that the fluid is given at a constant and regular rate, a pump is used.
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