PORTABLE DRUG ADMINISTRATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A PORTABLE DRUG ADMINISTRATION DEVICE

• US 20100160855A1
• Filed: 12/18/2009
• Published: 06/24/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care Inc. (Roche Holding AG)
• Original Assignee: Roche Diagnostics International AG (Roche Holding AG)
• Inventors: Schutz, Andrea, Sigrist, Reto, Bernini, Nicole
• Granted Patent: US 8,696,617 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 604/66
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2005/14208 with a programmable infusion control system, characterised by the infusion program
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/50 with microprocessors or computers
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/52 with memories providing a history of measured variating parameters of apparatus or patient
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2230/201 Glucose concentration
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/14244 adapted to be carried by the patient, e.g. portable on the body
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/1723 using feedback of body parameters, e.g. blood-sugar, pressure measurement of body parameters A61B5/00
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/17 delivered via infusion or injection
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

A portable drug administration device includes a pump and a controller configured to control operation of the pump according to a standard administration mode and a suspend mode in which drug administration is temporarily suspended. The device is configured to generate an event trigger on the occurrence of at least one of an error condition and/or the beginning of a maintenance action by the user. The controller is configured to detect the occurrence of the event trigger, and to store, in response to the event trigger, administration data, the administration data comprising all information that characterizes the current administration according at the time of occurrence of the event trigger automatically in a memory and to switch the device from the standard administration mode to the suspend mode. The controller is further configured to detect the occurrence of a restoring trigger and to retrieve, in response to the restoring trigger, the administration data from the memory, to switch the device from the suspend mode to the standard administration mode and to control the pump to resume administration according to the retrieved administration data.

Claims

1. A portable drug administration device comprising:

a pump;

a controller configured to control operation of the pump according to a standard administration mode and a suspend mode in which drug administration is temporarily suspended;

wherein the device is configured to generate an event trigger on the occurrence of at least one of an error condition and/or the beginning of a maintenance action by the user; and

wherein the controller is configured

to detect the occurrence of the event trigger, and to store, in response to the event trigger, administration data, the administration data comprising all information that characterizes the current administration at the time of occurrence of the event trigger automatically in a memory and to switch the device from the standard administration mode to the suspend mode; and

the controller is further configured to detect the occurrence of a restoring trigger and to retrieve, in response to the restoring trigger, the administration data from the memory, and to switch the device from the suspend mode to the standard administration mode and to control the pump to resume administration according to the retrieved administration data.

2. The drug administration device according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured such that, in response to the restoring trigger, the controller automatically retrieves the administration data from the memory, switches from the suspend mode to the standard administration mode and controls the pump to resume administration according to the retrieved administration data.

3. The drug administration device according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured such that, in response to the restoring trigger, the controller waits for a user input to retrieve the administration data from the memory, switches the device from the suspend mode to the standard administration mode and controls the pump to resume administration according to the retrieved administration data.

4. The drug administration device according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured, in response to the restoring trigger, to selectively control the pump to resume administration according to a default administration profile.

5. The drug administration device according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to control the device to switch to a stop mode on the occurrence of a timeout in the suspend mode.

6. The drug administration device according to claim 1, wherein the device is configured to generate and/or to receive an event trigger on the occurrence of an exceptional physiological condition of a user.

7. The drug administration device according to claim 6, wherein the device comprises or is operatively culpable to a physiological condition determination unit and the device and/or the physiological condition determination unit is configured to generate an event trigger based on evaluation of a physiological value determined by the physiological value evaluation unit.

8. The drug administration device according to claim 6, wherein the exceptional physiological condition comprises at least one of the occurrence of a hypoglycaemic or a hyperglycaemic condition of the user.

9. The drug administration device according to claim 1, wherein a restoring trigger is generated upon error recovery, completion of a maintenance action, and/or cessation of a special physiological condition of the user.

10. The drug administration device according to claim 1, wherein the device comprises a main power cell and a backup power cell and the memory is powered by the backup power cell.

11. The drug administration device according to claim 1, wherein the suspend mode is one of at least two special operation modes and the controller is configured to switch into either of the at least two special condition modes in dependence of the event trigger.

12. The drug administration device according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured, in response to the restoring trigger, to calculate the time interval from the occurrence of a preceding event trigger and the restoring trigger, as well as the difference between the actual drug amount delivered within that time interval and a standard drug amount resulting from administration in the standard administration mode within that time interval and to control the pump to compensate for the difference.

13. A method for controlling a portable drug administration device, comprising the following steps:

detecting the occurrence of an event trigger;

automatically storing, in response to an event trigger, administration data indicative of a current administration status in a memory and switching the device from a standard administration mode to a suspend mode;

detecting the occurrence of a restoring trigger; and

retrieving, in response to the restoring trigger, administration data from the memory, and switching the device from the suspend mode to the standard administration mode and resuming administration in accordance with the retrieved administration data.

14. The method according to claim 13, wherein the suspend mode is one of at least two special operation modes and the method comprises the step of selecting an appropriate special operation mode from the at least two special operation modes in dependence of the event trigger and switching the device into the selected special operation mode.