Medication delivery and monitoring system and methods

a monitoring system and medication technology, applied in the field of medication delivery and monitoring system and methods, can solve the problems of cost efficiencies in and achieve the effect of cost efficiencies in both drug handling and clinician tim

Inactive Publication Date: 2003-07-15
IBM CORP
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This approach yields cost efficiencies in both drug handling and clinician time.

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In this description, the term proximal is used to indicate the segment of the device normally closest to the object of the sentence describing its position. The term distal refers to the other end. Reference is now made to the embodiments illustrated in FIGS. 1-16 wherein like numerals are used to designate like parts throughout.

Reference is now made to FIG. 1 wherein one embodiment of an operating room medication administration monitoring system 10 is seen. System 10 comprises an intravenous solution source 20 and an injection port module 30 comprising an injection port 40. A patient to which source 20 is ultimately connected through module 30 is not shown, but such connections to the patient are well known in the art.

System 10 also comprises a plurality of syringes 50 which reside in a tray 60. Tray 60 is commonly referenced as a smart tray due to an inherent ability of the tray to read labels and other machine readable indicia. A complete description of 60 tray operation is provi...

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A medication delivery and monitoring system and methods whereby drugs are safely delivered to a patient, monitored in real-time during delivery and crucial events are recorded during delivery to provide real-time, on-line information and detail for an audit trail. A novel safety label cradle unit is disclosed. Safety label cradles (SLC's) are provided in a plurality of sizes to match varying sizes of syringes which are disposed on a cradle of the SLC to provide a constant needle height on the SLC unit independent of syringe volume (barrel diameter). A selected SLC is securely affixed to a syringe by an adhesively backed label wrapping. The label is preprinted to provide drug identification indicia and drug preparation information. The information is automatically read into the system from the label. A novel delivery station of the system monitors drug delivery as a plunger of the syringe is pushed to deliver a drug to a patient. A smart tray in cooperation with a slider portion of the SLC is used to selectively deliver drugs to a port in the IV set. The smart tray comprises a first portion for carrying SLC units, an attachable second portion having a control panel for operating the system and a cover for lockably affixing the SLC units to the tray.

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FIELD OF INVENTIONThe field of the invention is control and monitoring of medications delivered to a patient and more particularly to methods and apparatus involved in automatically controlling drug delivery, including controlling of drug administration rate and volume, with real-time monitoring and record keeping.BACKGROUNDProblems related to misidentification and resulting erroneous delivery of drugs are well known in the medical care art. Other problems related to drug control, maintaining adequate drug records, contamination of drugs prepared on patient floors are also well known in the pharmaceutical art. This invention provides solutions to the above disclosed problems and many others as will become evident hereafter.Manual dispensing of drugs from pharmacy to anesthesia is a common practice in hospitals and other surgery facilities today. Anesthesia providing departments generally fill syringes with drugs, administer the drugs directly to patients and document the drug handli...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(United States)
IPC IPC(8): A61M5/172A61M5/145A61M5/168A61M5/14A61M39/02A61M39/04
CPCA61M5/1413A61M39/04A61M2205/52A61M2205/6072A61M5/31533A61M2205/50
Inventor WALKER, RICHARD BRADLEYEVANS, ROBERT F.HANSON, ROBERTBURROW, MICHAEL F.
Owner IBM CORP
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