Rotating Compounding Chamber With Integrated Consumable Fluid Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional compounding platforms for parenteral medications are cumbersome, require significant user interaction, and include costly components such as syringe pumps and complicated consumables, leading to increased costs and inefficiencies.
Innovation Solution
A semi-automated compounding platform with a rotating chamber, consumable, and valves to control fluid flow, allowing for precise mixing and delivery of medical fluids, including a user interface and a vacuum system to manage fluid transfer and mixing processes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional compounding platforms use manual operations with multiple consumables and steps, then fluid transfer and mixing can be performed, but user interaction is significant and operational complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple separate consumables (vials, syringes, tubing) into a single integrated consumable unit that includes all necessary components for fluid transfer and mixing. This integration reduces the number of separate items users must handle and assemble, directly reducing operational complexity while maintaining the required functions.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated consumable is designed to perform multiple operations automatically through its internal structure, including self-contained mixing chambers and pre-configured fluid pathways. The system enables self-service by allowing the consumable to perform mixing and transfer functions without requiring multiple manual intervention steps, thereby reducing user interaction while maintaining operational capability.
2Measurement precision
If conventional compounding platforms use syringe pumps and complicated consumables, then precise fluid control is achieved, but overall costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs disposable integrated consumables that eliminate the need for expensive reusable components like syringe pumps. These single-use units are designed to be cost-effective while providing sufficient precision for their intended purpose, reducing overall system cost without sacrificing necessary measurement precision for compounding operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts the essential function of fluid control from complex expensive equipment (syringe pumps) and integrates it directly into the consumable itself through pre-filled chambers and simple mechanical structures. This extraction allows the system to maintain precise fluid control while eliminating the need for costly external pumping equipment.
3Reliability
If conventional compounding platforms require multiple steps and procedures, then thorough compounding is achieved, but preparation time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The integrated consumable is pre-configured with all necessary components, pre-filled vials, and pre-established fluid pathways before use. This preliminary preparation eliminates the need for users to perform multiple assembly and setup steps during the compounding process, reducing preparation time while ensuring that all necessary compounding functions are already in place for thorough mixing and transfer.
Solution Approach 2:
The design enables continuous fluid transfer and mixing operations within the integrated consumable without requiring interruption for reconfiguration or additional manual steps. The pre-configured internal pathways and chambers allow fluid to flow continuously through mixing zones and transfer points, maintaining compounding thoroughness while minimizing preparation and operation time.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The platform reduces user interaction, minimizes costly components, and enhances efficiency in preparing medical fluids by automating the compounding process, thereby reducing costs and improving operational simplicity.
Implementation Method 1
a pressure device coupled to the chamber, the pressure device configured to generate a vacuum within the chamber
Data Source
AI summary
A compounding platform including a compounding station having a user interface and a rotating device. The compounding platform including a chamber coupled to the compounding station. The rotating device is coupled to the chamber and configured to rotate the chamber relative to the compounding station. The compounding platform further including a consumable configured to be disposed within the chamber and including a plurality of ports and a bladder in fluid communication with the plurality of ports. The compounding platform has a first vial removably coupled to the consumable via a first port of the plurality of ports and including a diluent fluid, and a second vial removably coupled to the consumable via a second port of the plurality of ports and including a medicament. The compounding platform includes a plurality of valves configured to control fluid flow into and out of the bladder and corresponding to the plurality of ports.