Method and device for analysis, verification and quality assurance of drugs for injection or infusion
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method and device for non-invasive analysis of the identity and concentration of drugs that are to be administered by injection or infusion.
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13. A method to perform verification of correctness and quality assurance of a drug to be administered by injection or infusion comprising
(a) loading the drug to be administered in an administration container, (b) coupling said administration container to an analysing unit, whereby the administration container and the analysing unit forms a closed system, (c) in said analysing unit, non-invasively determining by spectroscopic methods one or more values of at least one chemical and/or physical property of the drug solution to generate a profile for the drug, (d) comparing the obtained profile with a set of known profiles, (e) if agreement between the obtained profile and the profile of the prescribed drug is reached issuing a message that the treatment is safe and administration of the drug can proceed.
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21. A device for verification of correctness and quality assurance of a drug to be administered by injection or infusion comprising
a drug container or syringe, including a drug solution coupled to an analysing unit containing optical components for spectroscopic determination of at least one property of said drug solution and for issuing a signal corresponding to said property, said container and said analysing unit forming a closed system, a central computation unit to which the signal from the analysing unit is transmitted for comparing the generated profile to a set of known profiles, and a presentation unit for displaying the result.
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