Infusion System IC Tag Verification for Drip Tube Safety
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current infusion systems face challenges with accurate setting of drip tubes, leading to potential medical errors and unsafe infusion practices, particularly with anti-cancer drugs, due to incorrect drip tube selection and lack of verification for infusion set information, which can result in serious medical accidents and improper disposal procedures.
Innovation Solution
An infusion injection system equipped with an IC tag on the drip tube for storing and verifying critical information, including drip rate, material, and manufacturing details, which is read by an automatic infusion device to ensure correct operation and safe handling, preventing errors and ensuring proper disposal procedures.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual setting of drip tube information is used, then operation simplicity is maintained, but infusion safety and accuracy deteriorate due to potential human error in selecting incorrect drip tubes
Solution Approach 1:
The drip tube automatically provides its identification information through the IC tag, eliminating the need for manual input. The system self-verifies the drip tube specifications by reading the IC tag data, ensuring accuracy without requiring operator intervention for data entry or verification.
Solution Approach 2:
The manual mechanical process of selecting and setting drip tube information is replaced by an automated electronic reading system. The IC tag reader automatically captures drip tube specifications, substituting human judgment and manual configuration with electronic data acquisition and automated verification.
2Measurement precision
If IC tag verification system is implemented, then infusion accuracy is improved, but device complexity increases due to additional verification mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
The IC tag containing drip tube specification information is pre-attached to the drip tube during manufacturing. This preliminary action ensures that accurate identification data is already available on the drip tube itself, eliminating the need for complex verification procedures during infusion setup.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides immediate feedback by comparing the IC tag information with the required infusion parameters. If there is a mismatch between the drip tube specifications and the prescribed infusion rate, the system alerts the operator, ensuring accurate matching before infusion begins.
3Reliability
If manual verification of infusion set information is performed, then operational simplicity is maintained, but medical error risk increases due to human oversight
Solution Approach 1:
The drip tube automatically provides its identification information through the IC tag, eliminating the need for manual input. The system self-verifies the drip tube specifications by reading the IC tag data, ensuring accuracy without requiring operator intervention for data entry or verification.
Solution Approach 2:
The manual mechanical process of selecting and setting drip tube information is replaced by an automated electronic reading system. The IC tag reader automatically captures drip tube specifications, substituting human judgment and manual configuration with electronic data acquisition and automated verification.
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AI summary
An infusion injection system wherein, when injecting a drug solution into a patient using an infusion set and an automatic infusion device, the automatic infusion device confirms various pieces of information regarding the infusion set in order to provide safe infusion for the patient, and to allow the user to assess the infusion information and manage a proper disposal procedure, whereinwhether an infusion set is properly mounted is judged and if the judgment is positive, information stored in an IC tag attached to a drip tube 15 is read out by an IC tag reader unit 59 in an automatic infusion device 7, and information matching is verified between the read-out information and the information set beforehand for the automatic infusion device 7, and wherein control operations are performed only when the verification is a match.