AUTOMATED DRUG PREPARATION APPARATUS INCLUDING SYRINGE LOADING, PREPARATION AND FILLING

• US 20100100234A1
• Filed: 11/02/2009
• Published: 04/22/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Baxter Corporation Englewood (Baxter International Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Forhealth Technologies Incorporated (Baxter International Inc.)
• Inventors: Wallace, Morris W., Osborne, Joel A., Tribble, Dennis, Khan, Abdul Wahid, Lefebre, Edward J.
• Granted Patent: US 8,209,941 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/228
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 1/201 having one piercing end
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 1/2096 Combination of a vial and a syringe for transferring or mixing their contents
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 3/003 Filling medical containers such as ampoules, vials, syringes or the like

Abstract

An automated medication preparation system for preparing a prescribed dosage of medication in a drug delivery device. The system includes a plurality of stations for receiving, handling and processing the drug delivery device so that the prescribed dosage of medication is delivered to the drug delivery device and a transporting device that receives and holds more than one drug delivery device and moves the drug delivery devices in a controlled manner from one station to another station. The system is configured so that two or more separate drug delivery devices can be acted upon at the same time.

Claims

1. An automated medication preparation system for preparing a prescribed dosage of medication in a drug delivery device comprising:

a plurality of stations for receiving, handling and processing the drug delivery device so that the prescribed dosage of Medication is delivered to the drug delivery device, wherein at least one of the stations includes a peripheral device for performing at least one operation; and

a transporting device that receives and holds more than one drug delivery device and moves the drug delivery devices in a controlled manner from one station to another station;

a master controller that tracks and controls the movement of the transporting device and operation of equipment at one or more stations; and

an automated device for preparing the medication in a container and drawing and holding a first volume of the medication,

wherein the system is configured so that two or more separate drug delivery devices are acted upon at the same time at two or more different stations and wherein the first volume of medication contains a plurality of dosages of medication that is subsequently each delivered, successively, to different drug delivery devices that are advanced by the transporting device to form individual dosages of medication in each drug delivery device.