Drug dose rate calculator
First Claim
1. A system for intravenously administering a drug dosage to a patient, the system including a calculation system for calculating an unknown one of the variables in a group including flow control or pump setting, intravenous solution volume, drug dose rate and drug quantity when three of the variables are known for intravenous administration of drugs or the like to a patient, comprising:
- keyboard means for entering data into the system;
a computation device connected to the keyboard means to receive data for three of the variables therefrom for calculating the unknown variabledisplay means connected to the computation device for displaying the data input to the computation device and for displaying a calculated value for the variable that was unknown.
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Abstract
A drug dosage calculation system includes a hand held, battery operated computing device for use by nurses and other clinical personnel to make calculations pertaining to the drug administration rate and the corresponding flow rate settings of IV systems that are used for intravenous administration of fluids to a patient. Flow rate setting, drug dose rate, drug amount and the amount of IV solution into which the drug is diluted are the primary variables used in such calculations. A keyboard is used to supply data to a computation device that computes the unknown quantity. A display device displays the data input to the computer and also displays data calculated for the unknown variable.
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21 Claims
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1. A system for intravenously administering a drug dosage to a patient, the system including a calculation system for calculating an unknown one of the variables in a group including flow control or pump setting, intravenous solution volume, drug dose rate and drug quantity when three of the variables are known for intravenous administration of drugs or the like to a patient, comprising:
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keyboard means for entering data into the system; a computation device connected to the keyboard means to receive data for three of the variables therefrom for calculating the unknown variable display means connected to the computation device for displaying the data input to the computation device and for displaying a calculated value for the variable that was unknown. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A method for intravenously administering a drug dosage to a patient, the method including determining an unknown one of the variables in the group including fluid flow or pump control setting, intravenous solution volume, drug dose rate and drug quantity when three of the variables are known and one is unknown for intravenous administration of drugs of the like to a patient, comprising the steps of:
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providing a computation device for performing calculations on data input thereto; supplying data to the computation device and to identify the names of known variables; supplying data indicative of the numerical values of the known variables to the computation device; supplying data indicative of the units of the known variables to the computation device; supplying data indicative of selected units of the unknown variable to the computation device; and computing a numerical value for the previously unknown variable. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21)
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