Infusion Pump Training: from Course to Evaluation

摘要

The Infusion Pump (IP) is a Medical-Hospital Equipment (MHE) that is used to regulate the passage of liquids that will be infused into the patient due to the positive pressure generated by the pump. There are three main types of failure causes that can occur in MHE: human error, technology failure, and external phenomena. At the Maternidade Escola Januario Cicco (MEJC), located at Natal, RN, most of the maintenance events in the IPs came from de lack of information from the professionals who handled the equipment, as well as from human error. The present study describes the training in IPs to the medical staff (nurses, nursing technician, and physician), elaborated and performed during the curriculum internship of one of the authors and aims to compare the number of maintenance calls in IPs before and after training to assess the impact of training. For this, the occurrence numbers were obtained before and after training, and a comparison was made between the results. There was a drop of more than 70% in the number of internal maintenance services, showing that the training is very important within the hospital environment.