The requirement of such Medical equipment is to infuse blood and other such fluids such as medication or food into a patient’s body or more specifically into the patient’s circulatory system. These pumps can produce quite a high but controlled pressure in the body and therefore is often used to inject controlled amounts of fluid just beneath the skin of the patient (subcutaneously) or even just within the central nervous system (epidurally).

There are several kinds of infusion that can be carried out depending on the patient’s requirement and thus the Infusion pump would have to be programmed accordingly. Continuous infusion is the type that is carried out in small pulses of time, between five hundred to a thousand micro liters, depending on the design of the equipment. Continue reading →