Purpose A hospital's initial experience with the implementation of new smart-pump technology for epidural drug delivery is described, with a discussion of challenges and lessons learned during the ...

Zion Market Research has published a new research report titled “Patient Controlled Analgesia Pumps Market By Product Type ...

A new technology being tested at KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH) may make childbirth by epidural a less painful process. Under the technology called Epiva, a smart pump that administers an ...

– Epidural analgesia is the administration of certain drugs into the epidural space to achieve effective relief of acute pain. By acting locally, it can provide more effective pain relief than other ...

Repeated annual audit cycles revealed an unacceptable failure rate of 38%-46% in epidural analgesia for surgical patients in our organisation. Reasons for failure included unilateral block, missed ...

In December 2008, to prepare for the implementation of the new smart pumps, data on patients who received epidural infusions at UNCH from March 1, 2008, through September 1, 2008, were collected ...