Unified Infusion Display with Dynamic Orientation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Patient care units with multiple medication delivery modules face user confusion due to varied display types and difficulty in noticing alert notifications, which can lead to errors in medication delivery.
Innovation Solution
A patient care unit with a main frame that receives and displays infusion information from multiple medication delivery modules using graphical channel cards, dynamically oriented to indicate the location of each module, allowing for a unified display and prominent alert notifications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If each medication delivery module provides its own user display and interface, then each module can be independently controlled and monitored, but the user is confused by a wide variety of display types and cannot easily notice alert notifications
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the display interfaces of multiple medication delivery modules into a single unified display on the main frame. Each module's information is presented as a separate graphical channel card on this common display, allowing users to view all module statuses in one location without confusion from multiple different display types.
Solution Approach 2:
The main frame's display serves multiple functions by accommodating different types of medication delivery modules (infusion pumps, syringe pumps, IV poles) while presenting them through a consistent graphical interface. This universal display approach allows the system to handle various module types without requiring module-specific display hardware.
2Adaptability or versatility
If each medication delivery module provides its own user display and interface, then each module can be independently controlled and monitored, but alert notifications may be lost or hard to notice
Solution Approach 1:
Alert notifications from all medication delivery modules are consolidated and displayed on the main frame's unified display. This ensures that alerts are not lost or hidden within individual module interfaces but are instead prominently displayed in a central location where users can easily notice and respond to them.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides continuous feedback to users through the unified display by showing alert notifications from all modules in real-time. This feedback mechanism ensures that users are always informed of the status of all medication delivery operations, improving reliability by preventing missed alerts.
3Ease of operation
If a unified display is used for all medication delivery modules, then user confusion is reduced and alert notifications are prominent, but the display must dynamically adapt to different module types and locations
Solution Approach 1:
The display system dynamically adapts to different module types and locations by automatically generating and positioning graphical channel cards corresponding to each connected module. When modules are connected or disconnected, the display updates its configuration without manual intervention, maintaining user clarity while managing complexity through automated dynamic reconfiguration.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates graphical representations (copies) of each medication delivery module's status and characteristics on the unified display. These graphical channel cards replicate the essential information and interface elements of each module type, allowing the display to handle diverse module configurations through standardized graphical templates rather than custom displays for each module.
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AI summary
A medication delivery module is mounted to a patient care device, and a first graphic representative of the first medication delivery module is displayed on a display screen of the device, wherein the first graphic includes an information display area for display of infusion information associated with the first medication delivery module, and a status indicator for display of status information associated with the medication delivery module. Responsive to the indication, the status indicator is dynamically orienting such that the status indicator is displayed on a side of the first graphic nearest the coupling of the first medication delivery module. Infusion information from the first medication delivery module is displayed within the display area of the first graphic.