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Intelligent medical material cart

  • US 20080316045A1
  • Filed: 06/20/2007
  • Published: 12/25/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2007
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A system for monitoring, control and containment of medical products in a health care facility, comprising:

  • an intelligent medical material cart comprising an enclosed medical container, wherein said medical container comprises a plurality of receptacles for storing a plurality of medical products;

    an interactive intelligence module integrated with said intelligent medical material cart for performing intelligent drug monitoring, control and administration, comprising;

    a position determination unit for determining the physical coordinates of the intelligent medical material cart;

    a central control device for controlling access of the medical products into the medical container and for tracking the movement of said medical products in and out of the medical container;

    a timing module for maintaining prescribed schedules for drug administration of patients;

    a tracking module for recording the time of movements of said medical products, in and out of said medical container; and

    a correlating and inferring unit for determining whether a particular medical product removed from the intelligent medical material cart to be administered to a patient has an adverse interaction with other drugs previously administered or to be administered to the patient.a radio frequency identification module for generating a radio frequency identification field in and around the medical container, wherein the radio frequency identification field is used for tracking radio frequency identification tagged medical products in the medical container; and

    an alarm controlled by said intelligence module that enunciates when a failure is detected in the medical product administration and containment.

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