7 syringes from the same lot failed.These normal saline flush syringes are connected to microbore tubing and then the patient's iv to push the medications through the tubing.Each will start infusing on the pump then trigger an alarm for "occluded patient side" which signals that there is higher than acceptable pressure going into the patient's vascular access device.This places the patient at an increased risk of infection due to accessing the line multiple times and clotting of the line related to the infusion stopping while the pump is beeping if the nurse cannot get to the pump.It is also consumes a lot of the nurses' time to answer a beeping pump and replace the syringe multiple times for each medication given.
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