MEDICATION DELIVERY SYSTEM

• US 20100204659A1
• Filed: 01/15/2010
• Published: 08/12/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: CRISI Medical Systems, Inc. (Becton, Dickinson & Co), Regents of the University of California (University of California)
• Original Assignee: CRISI Medical Systems, Inc. (Becton, Dickinson & Co), Regents of the University of California (University of California)
• Inventors: Bochenko, Walter John, DeKalb, Shawn Wayne, Palmer, Douglas Arthur, Vilke, Gary Michael, Killeen, James Patrick, Sohmer, Michael J., Chan, Theodore Craig
• Application Number:
  US12/688,510
• Publication Number:
  US 20100204659A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 604/232
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/1454 spring-actuated, e.g. by a clockwork
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/14566 with a replaceable reservoir for receiving a piston rod of the pump
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/16827 controlling delivery of multiple fluids, e.g. sequencing, mixing or via separate flow-paths infusion of multiple fluids without using a controller A61M5/1407
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/2429 by telescoping of ampoules or carpules with the syringe body
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/2466 by piercing without internal pressure increase A61M5/2429 takes precedence

Abstract

A medication delivery system includes an array of cartridge-receiving ports, a medication receiving fluid conduit, and a plurality of dispensing elements. Each port includes a fluid channel terminating at a fluid outlet and is configured to receive one of a plurality of cartridges that each contain a bolus volume of medication. The medication-receiving fluid conduit is fluidically coupled to the fluid outlet of each cartridge-receiving port at a first region and to a system outlet conduit at a second region (which in turn can be coupled to a patient catheter line). Each dispensing element corresponds to a single cartridge-receiving port so that, upon activation of the dispensing element, at least a portion of the bolus volume of medication flows through the fluid outlet of each cartridge-receiving port into the medication-receiving fluid conduit. Related apparatus, systems, and methods are also disclosed.

Claims

1. A medication delivery system comprising:

an array of cartridge-receiving ports, each port comprising a fluid channel terminating at a fluid outlet, each port for receiving one of a plurality of cartridges, each cartridge containing a bolus volume of medication and being either a reverse syringe or a direct injection syringe;

a medication-receiving fluid conduit fluidically coupled to the fluid outlet of each cartridge-receiving port at a first region and to a system outlet conduit at a second region, wherein the system outlet conduit is adapted to be coupled to a patient catheter line; and

a plurality of dispensing elements, each dispensing element corresponding to a single cartridge-receiving port, wherein upon activation of the dispensing element at least a portion of the bolus volume of medication flows through the fluid outlet of each cartridge-receiving port into the medication-receiving fluid conduit.