Syringe dose identification system

• US 20020088131A1
• Filed: 01/14/2002
• Published: 07/11/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 10/08/1999
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: BAXA Corporation (Baxter International Inc.)
• Original Assignee: BAXA Corporation (Baxter International Inc.)
• Inventors: Baxa, Ronald Dale, Baldwin, Brian E.
• Application Number:
  US10/047,924
• Publication Number:
  US 20020088131A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 33/494
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/6081 Colour codes
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/1782 Devices aiding filling of syringes in situ combination of a vial and a syringe for transferring or mixing their contents A61J1/2096, filling of medical containers in general B65B3/003
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/3129 Syringe barrels A61M5/3205 and A61M5/50 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/31525 Dosing burettes, pipettes B01L3/02
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/31556 Accuracy improving means
• CPC Class Codes: G01F 11/027 of the syringe type

Abstract

The present invention may be used to dispense a dose of medication to a patient from a syringe having a barrel adapted for receiving the medication and a plunger adapted for drawing the medication into the barrel and dispensing the medication from the syringe. The medication dose is based on a measurement or value associated with a patient that corresponds to a coded range. The present invention includes a sleeve mounted on the barrel of the syringe. The sleeve contains indicia corresponding to a plurality of the coded ranges. In one embodiment, the indicia include a plurality of colored marks corresponding to a plurality of the coded ranges indicative of different doses of the medication. In another embodiment, the indicia is a color of a tinted, substantially transparent sleeve.

Claims

1. A system for dispensing a dose of medication to a patient from a syringe, wherein the dose is based on a predetermined patient value that corresponds to a color coded range, the system comprising:

a syringe having a barrel adapted for receiving the medication and a plunger adapted for drawing the medication into the barrel and dispensing the medication therefrom; and

an adhesive-coated label adapted for partially or fully encircling the barrel of the syringe, wherein the label contains a plurality of colored marks corresponding to the color coded ranges and wherein the plurality of colored marks indicates lengths of the syringe barrel to which the plunger is drawn to fill the barrel with a predetermined amount of the medication to be received.