Patent ID: 8876793

Claim:
A method of flushing a fluid line with a syringe pump configured to support only a single syringe at a time and execute a flushing procedure subsequent to an infusion procedure, the method comprising: removably mounting a first syringe to the syringe pump, the first syringe containing a medicament and being coupled to the fluid line; performing the infusion procedure with the syringe pump to expel the medicament from the first syringe into the fluid line; automatically querying in human detectable form whether to proceed with a flushing procedure in response to conclusion of the infusion procedure, the flushing procedure lacking a specified relationship with the infusion procedure until after performance of the infusion procedure; removing the first syringe from the syringe pump location and decoupling the fluid line from the first syringe; and in response to a determination to proceed with the flushing procedure: coupling a second syringe containing a flushing fluid to the fluid line, mounting the second syringe to the syringe pump, and performing the flushing procedure with the syringe pump to expel the flushing fluid into the fluid line to flush the fluid line with the flushing fluid.