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Infusion pumps deliver fluids, medications, or nutrients into a patient's body.

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Infusion pumps deliver fluids, medications, or nutrients into a patient's body.

A patient's circulatory system is infused with water, drugs, or nutrition using an infusion pump. Although subcutaneous, arterial, and epidural infusions are rarely utilised, it is mostly administered intravenously.


Infusion pumps can deliver fluids in ways that would be prohibitively expensive or unreliable if done by nurses manually. They can, for example, administer injections as small as 0.1 mL per hour (too small for a drip), injections every minute, injections with repeated boluses requested by the patient, up to a maximum number per hour (e.g., in patient-controlled analgesia), or fluids whose volumes vary depending on the time of day.






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