A dispensing machine for patients

Abstract

The invention provides a medicine dispensing machine for a patient. The medicine dispensing machine is composed of a plurality of medicine bottles and a medicine dispensing control system device, wherein a core rotary shaft of each medicine bottle is mounted on a driving shaft of a stepping motor and an infrared counter is arranged on one side under a medicine outlet hole of each medicine bottle; the infrared counters and the stepping motors are mounted on a base plate; the medicine dispensing control system device comprises a single board computer, a liquid crystal display module and an SD (Secure Digital) card reader; the single board computer is further connected with the plurality of stepping motors with a driver and the infrared counter under each medicine bottle. A medicine dispensing method comprises the following steps: inputting medicine taking information, namely medicine taking time, medicine taking names and medicine taking quantity into the SD card; inserting the SD card after mounting the medicine bottles according to the requirements; switching on a power supply of the medicine dispensing machine; and discharging medicines by the medicine dispensing machine on time according to the varieties and the quantity of the medicines. By adopting the medicine dispensing machine, the problems that manual medicine taking and medicine dispensing of the patient are tedious and the varieties, the time and the quantity of the medicines are wrong and forgotten, caused by the manual medicine taking and medicine dispensing are solved. The medicine dispensing machine is small in size so that the machine can be taken along and the power consumption is low so that the machine can be powered by a battery.

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technical field [0001] The invention belongs to a medicine dispensing machine used by patients, in particular to a medicine dispensing machine used by patients and a medicine dispensing method thereof. Background technique [0002] With the acceleration of the aging society, a large number of elderly patients with chronic diseases need to take different amounts of multiple drugs at different time points every day. For example, diabetic patients need to take different medicines before and after meals, and the dosages are also different. Drugs for lowering blood pressure are more effective when taken on an empty stomach in the morning and afternoon, and anti-insomnia drugs are mainly taken before going to bed. Elderly patients usually suffer from a variety of chronic diseases and need to take a wide variety of drugs at trivial times. At the same time, there are "three high groups" in modern society, with high work pressure, a lot of entertainment, and worrying about their phy...

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Problems solved by technology

Searching for many times and taking medicine repeatedly, the efficiency is low and the labor intensity is high, the pharmacist is highly stressed, and a little carelessness in high-intensity mechanical work may cause errors in the type and quantity of medicines taken, and the mixing and alternating spoons will bring A small amount of mixed pollution, medicines are often in contact with the air and are prone to deterioration and failure, manual operation is troublesome and inefficient, so that patients have to waste time waiting in line for medicines

In addition, the nurses in the inpatient department also use manual dispensing in the process of taking care of the patients. It is easy to cause manual errors due to fatigue and negligence, resulting in serious medical accidents and increasingly tense doctor-patient relationships.

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