Syringe driver

Syringe drivers can be used for electrospinning, electrospraying, microdialysis, microfluidics, dispensing/dilution, tissue perfusion, and fluid circulation.

[2] Syringe drivers are particularly useful in palliative care, to continuously administer analgesics (painkillers), antiemetics (medication to suppress nausea and vomiting) and other drugs.

[2] This prevents periods during which medication levels in the blood are too high or too low, and avoids the use of multiple tablets.

As medication is administered subcutaneously, the area of administration is practically limitless, although edema may interfere with the action of some drugs.

Syringe pumps are useful in microfluidic applications, such as microreactor design and testing, and also in chemistry for slow incorporation of a fixed volume of fluid into a solution.

A syringe pump for laboratory use. World Precision Instruments (WPI) SP120PZ.
This patient of an intensive care unit of a German hospital (2015) could not eat due to a prior surgery of the abdominal region which had led, via a chain reaction of negative events, to a severe sepsis and an emergency surgery. He received antibiotics , parenteral nutrition and pain killers , amongst other substances, via automated injection employing circa 8 syringe drivers (2 staples in background on the right).