Method of detecting infiltration of infused liquid by comparing altered skin temperature with skin temperature in area of infiltrated liquid
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1. The method of detecting liquid-infusion infiltration into the skin of a patient which is at a temperature not sufficiently different from the temperature of the liquid being infused, the method comprising the steps of:
- placing a liquid-delivery conduit into a blood vessel of a patient for delivering an infusion liquid into a blood vessel of the patient;
altering the patient'"'"'s skin surface temperature relative to the temperature of the liquid in a region of the skin overlying the tip of the intravascular portion of the liquid conduit means; and
sensing the difference between the skin surface temperature due to the accumulation of the infused liquid in the perivascular region and the altered skin temperature for providing an output indicative of the difference between the two temperatures.
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Abstract
Perivascular infiltration of liquid being administered to a patient is detected by the method of altering the temperature of a region of the patient'"'"'s skin adjacent the site of a transcutaneous puncture and providing an output indicative of the difference between the altered skin temperature and the temperature of the infiltrated liquid.
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1. The method of detecting liquid-infusion infiltration into the skin of a patient which is at a temperature not sufficiently different from the temperature of the liquid being infused, the method comprising the steps of:
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placing a liquid-delivery conduit into a blood vessel of a patient for delivering an infusion liquid into a blood vessel of the patient; altering the patient'"'"'s skin surface temperature relative to the temperature of the liquid in a region of the skin overlying the tip of the intravascular portion of the liquid conduit means; and sensing the difference between the skin surface temperature due to the accumulation of the infused liquid in the perivascular region and the altered skin temperature for providing an output indicative of the difference between the two temperatures. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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