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Blackstone Programmable HS-S20 Plus

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Blackstone Programmable HS-S20 Plus

Product Code: SATE-3213

7 Inch Touch Screen, Syringes from 2 to 60 ml Recognised Automatically, Accuracy Within 1.5 Per Cent and Weight, Relay and TIVA Modes

The Blackstone HS-S20 Plus is a programmable syringe pump with a 7-inch touch screen. Syringes from 2 to 60 ml are recognised automatically across three installation methods, manual, automatic and a combination of the two, accuracy is stated within 1.5 per cent, weight, relay and TIVA modes are provided among others, and flow reaches 2300 ml an hour at its maximum. Available through Medigear.uk.

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Infusion Pumps

Categories

Surgical & Therapeutic Equipment

Condition

New

Origin

China

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Certified Professional Seller

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Supplier: Medigear

Two figures on this programmable syringe pump answer criticisms made of the HS-39. Accuracy is stated within 1.5 per cent. That is a real specification, given as a percentage of the set rate. The other sheet offered 0.01 ml and called it accuracy, when it is a resolution. Syringes from 2 to 60 ml are named here too, recognised automatically, where the HS-39 lists no syringe compatibility at all. Both are basic pieces of information a buyer needs, and both appear here.

The mode list is where this pump earns its description. Weight mode takes a dose in micrograms per kilogram per minute and does the arithmetic itself. A calculation leaves the bedside. Relay mode hands an infusion from one pump to the next as a syringe empties. That matters for any drug whose effect stops a minute after the infusion does. TIVA mode points at anaesthetic use. What exactly it provides needs establishing, because a preset for total intravenous anaesthesia and a target controlled infusion running validated models are quite different things.

Then the omission. No dose error reduction system appears anywhere on this sheet, where the simpler HS-39 lists one plainly. Dose checking against drug limits catches the decimal-point entry errors behind most serious infusion incidents.

Its absence from the more capable pump is a pattern across this catalogue, where a higher model number does not reliably mean a more complete machine. Medigear.uk establishes whether dose checking can be specified on this machine before it is offered.

On a programmable syringe pump, relay mode deserves more attention than a mode list usually gets. Drugs given by infusion in theatre and intensive care frequently have half-lives measured in minutes, so an infusion that stops while a syringe is changed produces an effect that stops with it. Handing over automatically from one pump to the next removes that gap. Doing it without a clinician standing over the changeover removes the moment when it gets forgotten.

Weight-based dosing is useful in the same understated way. Entering a dose per kilogram per minute and letting the pump work out the rate removes an arithmetic step performed under time pressure, and arithmetic done under pressure is exactly where infusion errors tend to begin. Automatic syringe recognition does something similar at setup. Selecting the wrong syringe size is a classic cause of a delivered rate that does not match the rate set on the screen.

The dose-checking system must be addressed. Every safeguard described above reduces the chance of an error being made in the first place. A dose error reduction system catches the error anyway, after all of them. The HS-39 carries one, and this sheet does not mention it, so a department choosing the larger pump may be choosing better ergonomics and worse protection.

Medigear.uk establishes whether dose checking is available at all, what TIVA mode actually provides and under what conditions 1.5 per cent was measured before this programmable syringe pump reaches a ward.

Accuracy Stated Properly

One point five per cent of the set rate is a genuine accuracy specification, whereas the other Blackstone pump offers a resolution figure under the same heading.

Syringe Compatibility Published

Two to 60 ml covers everything from a neonatal infusion to a long-running adult one, and the HS-39 publishes no syringe sizes.

Syringes Recognised Automatically

Selecting the wrong size is a classic setup error that produces the wrong delivered rate, and automatic recognition removes the opportunity.

Relay Handover Between Pumps

An infusion continues through a syringe change without a gap, which matters for any drug whose effect stops when the infusion does.

Dosing by Weight

Entering micrograms per kilogram per minute removes an arithmetic step done under time pressure, where infusion errors often start.

Three Ways to Load a Syringe

Manual, automatic, and a combination of the two let a department load the way it prefers, not the way the pump insists.

A Large Screen for the Class

A seven-inch screen shows drug, dose, rate, and remaining volume together, while a small pump display shows one at a time.

High Purge Rate

Two thousand three hundred millilitres an hour primes a line quickly, reducing the wait before an infusion can begin.

Screen of 7 Inch

Touch LCD, described as full HD.

Syringes of 2 to 60 ml

Recognised automatically by the pump.

Three Installation Methods

Manual, automatic and manual-automatic.

Accuracy Within 1.5 Per Cent

Expressed against the set rate.

Weight-Based Dosing

Micrograms per kilogram per minute entered directly.

Relay Mode

Handing over between pumps as a syringe empties.

TIVA Mode

Provided, with its exact nature unstated.

Flow to 2300 mL an Hour

A purge and bolus figure rather than a running rate.

No Dose Error Reduction

Absent, where the HS-39 lists it.

No Occlusion Pressure Stated

Alarm thresholds are not published.

This programmable syringe pump fixes what the HS-39 sheet got wrong and loses what it got right. Accuracy is properly stated at 1.5 per cent of the set rate rather than a resolution presented as accuracy; syringe compatibility runs from 2 to 60 mL. It is automatically recognised, and the mode list adds weight dosing, relay handover, and TIVA. Each of those reduces the chance of error. What it lacks is the system catching errors anyway, since no dose-error reduction appears here, while the simpler pump lists one. A department choosing the larger machine on screen size and mode count may be choosing better ergonomics and less protection. Two further questions follow: what TIVA mode actually provides, and under what conditions 1.5 per cent was measured. Medigear.uk settles all three before this programmable syringe pump is quoted.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything buyers need to know about sourcing medical equipment through MediGear.

Yes, and that is the point of noting it. Infusion pump accuracy is given as a percentage against the set rate, which this sheet provides. The HS-39 offers 0.01 mL and calls it accuracy, but that is a resolution figure describing the smallest increment settable.

The sheet does not say, and that matters because infusion accuracy varies with flow rate and syringe. A figure measured at a mid-range rate with one syringe brand does not describe performance at a very low rate with another, so we obtain the conditions.

Nothing on the sheet mentions one, which is notable because the simpler HS-39 lists one plainly. Dose checking against drug limits catches the entry errors behind most serious infusion incidents, so whether it can be specified here is established first.

It hands an infusion from one pump to another as a syringe empties, so delivery continues without a gap. That matters for drugs whose effect stops within a minute of the infusion stopping, where the patient feels a pause during a syringe change.

The sheet says only that it exists. A preset arrangement for total intravenous anaesthesia and a target-controlled infusion running validated pharmacokinetic models are quite different capabilities, and this is established before any anaesthetic use.

Anything from 2 to 60 ml, recognised automatically rather than selected by hand. Automatic recognition removes a classic setup error, since choosing the wrong size produces a delivered rate that does not match the rate set.

A purge or bolus rate rather than a running one. At that speed, a 60 ml syringe empties in about a minute and a half, so it describes how quickly the pump can prime a line or deliver a bolus, not how it runs an infusion.

Whether dose checking is available, what TIVA mode actually provides, and the conditions behind the accuracy figure. Then the minimum rate, bolus behaviour, keep-vein-open rate, occlusion thresholds, the alarm set, battery endurance, how pumps mount and stack, any data link, mass, disinfection advice, the governing standard and conformity marking.