>>I am curious what we mean when we say "hospital grade pump"? I have looked
in all of the prominent books and asked many many lactation professionals
for a definition of a hospital grade pump. Is it the cycles, the vacuum, the
ability to be used from mother to mother, or the fact that it is "in the
hospital"? I have been told by a very knowledgeable and prominent lactation
consultant that there really is no definition. Am I missing something
somewhere? Medela says their PIS Advance is "hospital grade" (at least they
do in this area) and now Playtex says the Embrace is "hospital grade". How
do we respond to this? Who defines the pumps? Seems we need to have a
standard that we use so that we are all talking about the same thing.<<

I had this conversation with another LC on this list just last week, and as
a result I am leaning towards changing from "hospital-grade" to
"rental-grade," which more accurately reflects the heavy-duty action of a
multi-user pump. "Multi-user" would be another possibility, but right now I
lean to "rental grade."

Lisa Marasco

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