The customer reported that 24-hour epoch (combination of doxorubicin, etoposide, and vincristine) infusions have lengthened approximately 2 hours since changing to the low sorbing infusion set.The epoch volume is 500ml and it always runs at 20.8ml/hr.The dosage of etoposide in the epoch bags ranges from 85-128mg.The clinicians have noticed an increase in air-in-line (ail) alarms since they started using the low sorbing set and alleged that the increased number of ail alarms caused the increased infusion times.Although the treatment time was prolonged, there was no report of patient harm.The customer also stated the pumps are working as intended for all other infusions before or after the epoch infusions, and the low sorb tubing is used for other 24 hour infusions without ail issues.
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