Controlling Drug Delivery Apparatus
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1. A system for delivery of a drug to a patient comprising:
- a drug delivery device arranged to deliver a predetermined dose of the drug to the patient over a plurality of breaths, wherein the predetermined dose is delivered during a single compliant treatment, the device including a breath analyzer which (i) analyzes a patient'"'"'s breathing during drug delivery, wherein the analysis by the breath analyzer includes quantitatively measuring at least one parameter of the patient'"'"'s breathing; and
(ii) generates breath information on a patient'"'"'s breathing during drug delivery wherein the breath information includes the at least one quantitative measurement of the patient'"'"'s breathing;
a data carrier onto which the drug delivery device is arranged to place the breath information for each treatment; and
a data analyzer arranged to analyze the breath information from the data carrier, and to derive characteristics of the patient'"'"'s breathing; and
a trend generator for analyzing the breath information and the characteristics of the patient'"'"'s breathing over multiple treatments.
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Abstract
A drug package comprising a plurality of drug vials containing drugs for delivery to a patient in a drug delivery device; and a data carrier including drug treatment information for use by the drug delivery apparatus.
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16 Claims
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1. A system for delivery of a drug to a patient comprising:
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a drug delivery device arranged to deliver a predetermined dose of the drug to the patient over a plurality of breaths, wherein the predetermined dose is delivered during a single compliant treatment, the device including a breath analyzer which (i) analyzes a patient'"'"'s breathing during drug delivery, wherein the analysis by the breath analyzer includes quantitatively measuring at least one parameter of the patient'"'"'s breathing; and
(ii) generates breath information on a patient'"'"'s breathing during drug delivery wherein the breath information includes the at least one quantitative measurement of the patient'"'"'s breathing;
a data carrier onto which the drug delivery device is arranged to place the breath information for each treatment; and
a data analyzer arranged to analyze the breath information from the data carrier, and to derive characteristics of the patient'"'"'s breathing; and
a trend generator for analyzing the breath information and the characteristics of the patient'"'"'s breathing over multiple treatments. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A method of identifying changes in condition of a patient comprising:
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delivering a predetermined dose of medication over a plurality of breaths, wherein each predetermined dose is delivered during a single compliant treatment;
analyzing a patient'"'"'s breathing during drug delivery, including quantitatively measuring at least one parameter of that breathing;
generating breath information from the patient'"'"'s breathing during drug delivery, including the quantitative measurement of that breathing;
transferring the breath information to a data analyzer;
deriving characteristics from the breath information; and
analyzing the characteristics over a number of treatments to identify trends in those characteristics. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8)
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9. A system for delivery of a drug to a patient comprising:
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a drug delivery device arranged to deliver a predetermined dose of the drug to the patient over a plurality of breaths, the drug delivery device including a wireless transceiver, wherein the predetermined dose is delivered during a single compliant treatment, the device including a breath analyzer which (i) analyses a patient'"'"'s breathing during drug delivery, wherein the analysis by the breath analyzer includes quantitatively measuring at least one parameter of the patient'"'"'s breathing; and
(ii) generates breath information on a patient'"'"'s breathing during drug delivery wherein the breath information includes the at least one quantitative measurement of the patient'"'"'s breathing;
a data carrier onto which the drug delivery device is arranged to place the breath information for each treatment, the data carrier including a wireless transceiver for wireless communication with the drug delivery transceiver; and
a data analyzer arranged to analyze the breath information from the data carrier, and to derive characteristics of the patient'"'"'s breathing; and
a trend generator for analyzing the breath information and the characteristics of the patient'"'"'s breathing over multiple treatments. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12)
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13. A method of identifying changes in condition of a patient comprising:
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delivering a predetermined dose of medication over a plurality of breaths, wherein each predetermined dose is delivered during a single compliant treatment;
analyzing a patient'"'"'s breathing during drug delivery, including quantitatively measuring at least one parameter of that breathing;
generating breath information from the patient'"'"'s breathing during drug delivery, including the quantitative measurement of that breathing;
wirelessly transferring the breath information to a data analyzer;
deriving characteristics from the breath information; and
analyzing the characteristics over a number of treatments to identify trends in those characteristics. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16)
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