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Blackstone Volumetric HS-S20 Plus

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Blackstone Volumetric HS-S20 Plus

Product Code: SATE-3215

Eleven Infusion Modes Including Drug Library, TPN and Sequential, with Anti-Bolus, Rate Changes on the Run and Hospital System Connection

The Blackstone HS-S20 Plus volumetric infusion pump offers eleven infusion modes, from simple rate to drug library, TPN, and sequential delivery. You can adjust the flow rate and volume to be infused without stopping the infusion; it includes anti-bolus protection, keep-vein-open, and a key lock, and it connects to a hospital information system over WiFi. 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

Start with the name on this volumetric infusion pump, because it is shared. Blackstone sells a syringe pump as the HS-S20 Plus and this volumetric infusion pump under the same designation. They take different consumables, suit different infusions and cannot substitute for one another. An order naming the number alone will not say which turns up, and that is the third time in this catalogue a Blackstone model number has covered two machines.

Two features here are worth more than the mode count. The first is anti-bolus. When a line blocks, the pump keeps pushing, and pressure builds in the tubing. Clear the occlusion,n and that stored pressure releases into the patient as a bolus nobody ordered. An anti-bolus system retracts the mechanism to decompress the line before delivery resumes, on a concentrated drug that is the difference between a nuisance and an incident.

The second is the drug library mode. The syringe pump sharing this model number lists no dose checking at all, and the HS-39 lists it without describing it. Here it appears again. The same questions apply: who compiles the library, whether a department may edit it to its own protocol, whether the limits stop an entry or merely warn, and how a revision gets onto every pump. A library that answers none of those is a menu rather than a safeguard.

Alongside that, changing rate and volume without stopping delivery matters wherever a drug is titrated against a response. Medigear.uk establishes the library arrangement and the air detection before this pump is offered.

Eleven modes on a volumetric infusion pump sound like marketing until you read the list. TPN mode ramps a feed up and then down again, rather than starting and stopping it flat, and that is how parenteral nutrition is actually delivered. Sequential mode runs solutions in a set order without anyone reprogramming between them. Intermittent mode repeats a dose at set intervals through the day. Micro mode handles rates too low for ordinary programming to reach. Each of those describes a real infusion pattern rather than a variation on a single theme.

Changing rate and volume without interrupting delivery belongs in that same category of practical use. A vasopressor titrated against blood pressure gets adjusted repeatedly, and a pump that must be stopped to change a figure introduces a gap over time. Removing that gap is worth more than several of the modes listed beside it.

What is absent is more concerning on a volumetric pump than it would be elsewhere. Air in the line is the specific hazard of infusing from a bag through a giving set, and air detection is standard equipment on pumps built this way. Nothing on the sheet mentions it. Nor is giving set compatibility described, and a volumetric pump runs only on sets matched to it, which is a consumable commitment for the life of the machine.

Medigear.uk establishes air detection, set compatibility, occlusion settings, and the flow rate range before this volumetric infusion pump reaches a ward.

Anti-Bolus Protection

Decompressing a blocked line before delivery resumes prevents the unordered bolus that otherwise follows an occlusion clearing.

A Drug Library Mode

Dose checking against a library is the principal safety feature on an infusion pump, and the syringe pump sharing this model number lists none.

Rate Changed Without Stopping

Titrating a drug against a response means adjusting repeatedly, and a pump that keeps running through each change removes a gap every time.

Modes That Match Real Infusions

TPN ramping, sequential solutions, intermittent dosing, and micro rates each describe a genuine clinical pattern rather than a rate variation.

Keep Vein Open Listed

A low rate maintained after an infusion completes keeps the line patent, and neither Blackstone syringe pump sheet publishes a KVO figure.

Long Standby Range

One minute through 24 hours covers both a brief pause between doses and an overnight interval, without reprogramming the pump.

Hospital System Connection

Linking to a hospital information system over WiFi lets infusion data reach a record instead of being transcribed by hand.

Night Mode and Key Lock

Dimming beside a sleeping patient and locking against accidental changes are small provisions that matter on a pump running unattended.

Eleven Infusion Modes

From simple rate through to TPN and sequential.

Drug Library Mode

Listed, with the library itself undescribed.

TPN and Sequential Modes

Ramped feeding and ordered solutions.

Intermittent and Micro Modes

Repeated dosing and very low rates.

Rate and Volume Changed Live

Without stopping the running infusion.

Anti-Bolus Fitted

Decompressing the line after an occlusion.

KVO Provided

Keeping the vein open once delivery completes.

Standby, 1 Minute to 24 Hours

Adjustable across that whole span.

WiFi and Hospital System Link

Connecting infusion data to a record.

Key Lock and Night Mode

Guarding against changes and dimming the display.

History Record

With the retention period unstated.

No Air Detection Listed

Absent from the specification entirely.

Two things about this volumetric infusion pump need stating before its features. It shares a model designation with a Blackstone syringe pump, and the two are different machines on different consumables, so an order must name the type rather than the number. And no air-in-line detection appears anywhere on the sheet, which, on a pump infusing from a bag through a giving set, is the specific hazard the equipment exists to guard against. Beyond those, it reads well. Anti-bolus prevents the unordered dose after a cleared occlusion. A drug library mode brings dose checking that the syringe version lacks—rate and volume change without stopping delivery. The library arrangement still needs describing, as does giving set compatibility, which is a consumable commitment for the life of the pump. Medigear.uk addresses all of those points before quoting this volumetric infusion pump.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

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

No. Blackstone sells both under that designation, and they are different machines. One drives a syringe from 2 to 60mL; this runs from a giving set attached to a bag. Different consumables, different infusions, and an order naming the number alone will not distinguish them.

It prevents an unintended bolus after an occlusion clears. While a line is blocked, the pump keeps pushing, and pressure builds in the tubing; clearing the blockage releases that pressure into the patient. An anti-bolus system decompresses the line before resuming.

Because with a concentrated drug, the stored volume is enough to have an effect. Vasoactive drugs, sedatives and opioids all arrive faster than intended when a line unblocks, and preventing it is a safety measure rather than a refinement.

A drug library mode is listed, which is its foundation. The sheet names no compiler, says nothing about editing, does not separate a warning limit from a blocking one, and gives no update route. Those four points decide whether it protects anybody.

Yes, and so can the volume to be infused, without stopping delivery. That matters wherever a drug is titrated against a response, since a pump that must be halted to change a figure introduces a gap with every adjustment.

Nothing on the sheet says so, and that is the omission to pursue. Air embolism is the specific hazard of infusing through a giving set, and air detection is standard on volumetric pumps, so its absence from a specification is established rather than assumed.

Not described anywhere. A volumetric pump runs only on sets matched to it, so the answer determines a standing consumable spend and a supply dependency lasting as long as the pump does. It is a commercial question as much as a technical one.

Air-in-line detection, given set compatibility, the drug library arrangement, flow rate range and accuracy, occlusion pressure settings, the alarm set, battery, history retention, mounting and stacking, weight, the governing standard and conformity marking.