A patient care system has a medical pump for delivering a medicine to apatient, anda processor in communication with the pump. The pump is configured to receivea first inputon whether the medicine is a critical medicine, and a second input on atrigger condition thattriggers a fail-operate mode for the critical medicine. The processor controlsthe medicalpump to operate in the fail-operate mode, where the fail-operate modecontinues delivery ofthe critical medicine when the trigger condition is triggered.
