Medical indication device and identification method

• US 20100155465A1
• Filed: 01/21/2010
• Published: 06/24/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Insightra Medical, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Medical Vision Research & Development AB
• Inventors: Mollstam, Anders, Milton, Sven
• Granted Patent: US 8,746,547 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/375
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3569 sublocal, e.g. between console and disposable
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3584 using modem, internet or bluetooth
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/60 with identification means
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/6018 providing set-up signals for the apparatus configuration
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/6045 having complementary physical shapes for indexing or registration purposes
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/6054 Magnetic identification systems
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/6072 Bar codes
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/70 with testing or calibration facilities
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/14232 Roller pumps
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/041 Constructional details G06K19/06 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07749 the record carrier being capable of non-contact communication, e.g. constructional details of the antenna of a non-contact smart card
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07758 arrangements for adhering the record carrier to further objects or living beings, functioning as an identification tag
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/17 delivered via infusion or injection
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

A medical-technical identification device for identifying a sterile product and a method of identifying such a product are provided. The product may be intended for one-time-use only, when connected to a piece of medical equipment. A fixedly mounted information carrier is adapted to deliver or to offer specific product information in a contactless fashion to a reading element connected to the medical equipment. The function of the identification device is improved so that even specific data can be forwarded to the medical equipment such as an infusion-type fluid pump. Thus operation of the pump may be reprogrammed, for example, to change the calibration factor or the operation mode or to change irrigation depending on the patient group to undergo surgery.

Claims

1. A medical-technical identification device for identifying a sterile product that is intended for a one-time-use only, when connected to a piece of medical equipment, the identification device comprising:

a) an information carrier fixedly attached to a holder, which information carrier is adapted to deliver specific information in a contactless fashion,

b) a reading element that is connected to a seat and to a registering unit which registering unit in turn is connected to both a storage unit and an analyzing unit,

the information carrier functioning to deliver or offer specific information on either or both the sterile product connected to the piece of medical equipment and the piece of medical equipment.

the device further comprising a presentation unit which functions to present information from both an analyzing unit and a storage unit and

a programming unit connected to the analyzing unit or the storage unit, wherein bringing the information carrier and the reading element into contactless alignment with one another enables identifying of the sterile product and transfer of information for re-programming operation of the medical equipment.

2. The identification device according to claim 1, wherein the information carrier is mounted in or on one side of the holder and the reading element is mounted in or on one side of a fixation seat, wherein the exchange of information between the information carrier and the reading element does not take place until the holder is in place in the seat and until connection of the sterile product to the medical equipment has been completed

3. The identification device according to claim 2, wherein the information carrier and the reading element are adapted to take fixed positions relative to one another when the sterile product is connected actively to the medical equipment.

4. The identification device according to claim 1, wherein the transmission of information between the information carrier and the reading element is caused to take place with the aid of one or more device selected from the group consisting of bar codes, Blue Tooth, radio waves, light waves including infrared light, electromagnetism, radioactivity and chemical transmission.

5. A method for re-programming operation of a medical equipment when connected to a medical identification device comprising the steps of:

a) providing a medical identification device comprising a fixedly attached information carrier adapted to deliver, or to offer specific product information on the piece of medical equipment to a reading element connected to the medical equipment, wherein the reading element is connected to a registering unit which, in turn, is connected to both a storage unit and an analyzing unit that functions to deliver a signal to a control unit, the reading element being adapted to receive or read product information for the piece of medical equipment;

b) bringing the information carrier and the reading element into contactless alignment with one another for transfer of information to the piece of medical equipment; and

c) based on the information transferred from the identification device to the medical equipment programming the medical equipment to change, adjust or update operation mode of the medical equipment.