The patient had 2 cadd solis iv pumps in his home for tpn delivery.Two days in a row, both pumps have over infused tpn until bag ran dry.The bag ran dry 30 minutes prior to dosing schedule was set to complete.This caused an over-infusion of 100 ml of tpn fluid (which is outside of his ordered amount from physician) and infused 30 minutes faster than intended (23.5 hours instead of 24 hours), which caused about 55 mls to be infused into patient faster than order and without a ramp down.Patient has blood glucose issues, so not having a ramp down time could potentially cause an adverse event to occur.Since both pumps in home had over-infused, patient was forced to hook up to defective pump tubing for the next tpn infusion waiting for a new pump.Pumps were sent out to the home to replace the defective pumps and we will be getting the defective pumps back by thursday, 09/15/2016 or friday, 09/16/2016.Once they are back at our office, they will be sent to smiths medical.With patient's high volume for his tpn, the pump did not technically go outside the plus or minus 6 percent error rate that manufacturer states, but the pump delivered all of the formula too fast and 100 mls extra, which has not happened prior to these infusions.
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