[kathiecnm]

Our hospital is growing & we now need to order new IV pumps We want a "smart pump" that meets the needs of all of the hospital, including L&D & PP. I am just asking for your pros/cons, vote on the 3 IV pumps we are considering: SIGMA, ALARIS or HOSPIRA. Thanks! Kathie

[Canadian_Nurse]

I don't know about the others, but we have Alaris pumps at our hospital and we HATE them!

[eandgsma]

We have the Alaris pumps and we like them. I have no experience with the other two mentioned though. Others I've used are the IVAC and the BAXTER pumps. Alaris is WAY better than those two IMHO.

[OBNurse529]

We use Alaris pumps where I work. We like them, for the most part.... one thing we can't stand is that they have no recall. If you turn the Pit off in a decel, you can't recall the settings when you restart it.

[HappyNurse2005]

We use Alaris, where previously we had Alaris and Hospira (these are also called, or used to be called Plum Pumps, correct?)

We have new Alaris' which now do PCA. I like them. the Plums were okay, but I like that on the Alaris you can run multiple channels through the one main unit. so you can have pit, mag, lr all on one pump. or you could do mag, lr and pca (which comes wiht the etco2 detetector, so thats another channel on there)