Monoject Syringes and Alaris

PLEASE NOTE:   Posts made to this forum should not be considered as the expressed opinions of, nor should be considered endorsed by, the Medication Safety Officer’s Society (MSOS) or the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP). 

Make sure your email is up-to-date
In order to continue to receive updates from MSOS, as well as forum posts and other valuable information as a member of MSOS, please be sure to update your email address with us, whenever it changes. If you need assistance doing so, please send an email to jgold@ismp.org

4 posts / 0 new
Last post
Jordan Anderson
Jordan Anderson's picture
Offline
Last seen: 1 day 22 hours ago
Joined: 04/06/2023 - 16:32
Monoject Syringes and Alaris

Hello! I wanted to alert this group of a safety issue that we encountered recently. Our facility uses Alaris infusion pumps and we had multiple reports last week regarding incorrect volume detection, incorrect rates of delivery, and backflow into syringes. Upon investigation of these events it was identified that we had received new syringes distributed by Cardinal Health labeled as MONOJECT syringes. They were different from our previous Covidien MONOJECT syringes with respect to barrel size, plunger length, dead space volume, and space between the volume. We escalated this issue to Alaris and Cardinal and they had already received additional reports.