Intended Use / Population / Contraindication; Contraindications - Medela Symphony Mode D'emploi

1. Intended use / population / contraindication

The intended use and indications of breast pumps
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Breast pumps are intended to be used by lactating women in the hospital or home
environment for expressing breast milk. Breast pumps are indicated to alleviate the
symptoms of engorgement by expressing milk. In cases of mastitis, breast pumps
support the healing process by removing breast milk from the affected breast.
Breast pumps are indicated to relieve sore and cracked nipples and to bring out flat or
inverted nipples. Also, breast pumps enable mothers to provide breast milk for babies
who cannot feed directly at the breast for a variety of reasons, such as latch-on
problems, cleft palate or premature babies.
Intended patient population / user
Adolescent paediatric or adult lactating women. Many women find it convenient, or even
necessary, to use a breast pump to express and store their breast milk once they have
returned to work, if they are travelling, or are otherwise separated from their babies.
Women are often delighted to learn that a breast pump can be used as a supplement to
breastfeeding and that some pumps are designed to mimic the sucking of a nursing baby.

Contraindications

There are no known contraindications for the Symphony* breast pump.
Product description
The Symphony multi-user breast pump is provided with the Symphony PLUS program
card, which generates the pump suction patterns. The program card contains two pump
programs. The goal of the INITIATE program is to initiate milk production with Medela's
initiation technology. The MAINTAIN program is designed to build and maintain milk
production with the 2-Phase Expression technology.
In some cases, the Symphony breast pump is provided with the Standard program card
to generate the pump suction patterns. This program is designed to build and maintain
milk production with 2-Phase Expression technology. While the Standard card can be
used to initiate lactation, Medela recom mends using the INITIATE program of the
Symphony PLUS program card.
The 2-Phase Expression technology mimics the baby's natural sucking rhythm. Short,
stimulating cycles in the stimulation phase are followed by longer ones in the expression
phase.
* Symphony is a trademark of Medela AG