MEDICAL PUMP SYSTEM AND MEDICAL PUMP MOUNTING RACK

• US 20130324929A1
• Filed: 08/06/2013
• Published: 12/05/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/08/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: MOCHIZUKI, Tomonori, Uemura, Tomoko
• Granted Patent: US 9,415,164 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 604/151
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/35 Communication
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3569 sublocal, e.g. between console and disposable
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3576 with non implanted data transmission devices, e.g. using external transmitter or receiver
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/502 User interfaces, e.g. screens or keyboards
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/142 Pressure infusion, e.g. using pumps
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/168 Means for controlling media flow to the body or for metering media to the body, e.g. drip meters, counters ; Monitoring media flow to the body flow control in general G05D7/00
• 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 40/40 for the management of medical equipment or devices, e.g. scheduling maintenance or upgrades
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

A medical pump system includes a plurality of medical pumps mounted in a rack, the rack determines whether it has received a start notification indicating the start of setting operation or an end notification indicating the end of setting operation from one of the mounted medical pumps via a communication unit for communicating with the mounted medical pumps. Upon receiving a start notification from one medical pump, the rack transmits an inhibition instruction to inhibit the acceptance of user operation to all remaining medical pumps via the communication unit. Upon receiving an end notification from one medical pump, the rack transmits a cancellation instruction to cancel the inhibition state based on the inhibition instruction to all the remaining medical pumps. Each of the medical pumps mounted in the rack inhibits the acceptance of user operation in an interval between reception of start instruction and reception of a cancellation instruction.

Claims

1. A medical pump system including a plurality of medical pumps mounted in a rack, wherein

said rack comprises

a communication unit configure to communicate with a plurality of mounted medical pumps,

a determination unit configured to determine whether a start notification indicating a start of setting operation or an end notification indicating an end of setting operation is received from one of said plurality of medical pumps via said communication unit,

a first transmission unit configured to, if said determination unit determines that the start notification is received from said one medical pump, transmit an inhibition instruction to inhibit acceptance of user operation to all remaining medical pumps except for said one medical pump via said communication unit, and

a second transmission unit configured to, if said determination unit determines that the end notification is received from said one medical pump, transmit a cancellation instruction to cancel the inhibition state set by the inhibition instruction to all said remaining medical pumps, and

each of said plurality of medical pumps comprises a control unit configured to inhibit acceptance of user operation during an interval between reception of the inhibition instruction and reception of the cancellation instruction.

2. The medical pump system according to claim 1, wherein said first transmission unit transmits a display instruction to decrease display luminance of a display unit of a medical pump when transmitting the inhibition instruction, and

said second transmission unit transmits a display instruction to restore the display luminance of said display unit when transmitting the cancellation instruction.

3. The medical pump system according to claim 1, further comprising

a specifying unit configured to specify a mount position of said one medical pump, in said rack, which has transmitted the start notification, and

a decision unit configured to decide direction display to cause said remaining medical pumps to perform display to indicate the mount position specified by said specifying unit from each of said remaining medical pumps other than said medical pump which has transmitted the start notification,

wherein said first transmission unit transmits a display instruction to cause a display unit of a medical pump to perform direction display decided by said decision unit, when transmitting the inhibition instruction.

4. The medical pump system according to claim 1, wherein said control unit of said medical pump changes a display state of a display unit of said medical pump in accordance with the display instruction.

5. The medical pump system according to claim 1, wherein said control unit of said medical pump decreases display luminance of a display unit of said medical pump while inhibiting acceptance of user operation based on the inhibition instruction.

6. The medical pump system according to claim 1, wherein said rack further comprises

light-emitting units provided in correspondence with a plurality of mount positions at which medical pumps are to be mounted, and

a driving unit configured to selectively drive said light-emitting units so as to explicitly indicate a position at which said one medical pump is mounted in an interval after determining by said determination unit that the start notification is received until determining by said determination unit that the end notification is received.

7. A medical pump mounting rack configured to mount a plurality of medical pumps, comprising:

a communication unit configured to communicate with a plurality of mounted medical pumps;

a determination unit configured to determine whether a start notification indicating a start of setting operation or an end notification indicating an end of setting operation is received from one of said plurality of medical pumps via said communication unit;

a first transmission unit configured to, if said determination unit determines that the start notification is received from said one medical pump, transmit an inhibition instruction to inhibit acceptance of user operation to all remaining medical pumps except for said one medical pump via said communication unit; and

a second transmission unit configured to, if said determination unit determines that the end notification is received from said one medical pump, transmitting a cancellation instruction to cancel the inhibition state set by the inhibition instruction to all said remaining medical pumps.