Information was received indicating that a smiths medical cadd legacy plus pump seemed to run normally, but it was not infusing medication as evidenced by a full bag 24 hours after the infusion started.The patient reported that when he initially started infusion, the pump ran as usual, made the normal sounds and the residual volume decreased to zero and when he went back to the hospital for removal, the bag was completely full as if none had been infused.The patient was given a different pump and he noticed that the medication was not infusing.He also noticed several air bubbles in the tubing between him and the pump, none of which ever moved.The air detector was off and so was the upstream sensor.There were no occlusions in the tubing between the pump and the medication bag.The label on the medication bag did not match the pump's program.The label says 5fu rate 2.2 ml/hr over 46 hours.The patient did mention that the nurse said something about speeding the infusion up to get him finished by 10am sunday.At this rate, the pump would alarm empty in 5 hours.Due to full bag and discrepancies in label and program, the pump stopped.The patient has flushes at home to flush his picc line and disconnected the pump.There was no patient harm.
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