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Infusion fluid management system

  • US 5,317,506 A
  • Filed: 05/12/1992
  • Issued: 05/31/1994
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/30/1989
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A system for administering fluid infusions to patients comprising:

  • a plurality of infusion devices, each infusion device independently operable to infuse an infusate into an associated patient in accordance with instructions representative of an infusion regimen, and including memory located at each of the infusion devices for storing the instructions;

    means located remotely from the plurality of infusion devices for processing data, the data including data representative of an infusion for each of the patients, the infusion data comprising data identifying the patients, data identifying an infusate associated with each patient, and data identifying a manner of infusion associated with each patient, the data processing means further comprising;

    means for prompting a user to choose one of multiple tasks, the tasks including processing new infusion data, updating previously processed infusion data, storing infusion data, and outputting infusion data in a format readable by each of the infusion devices,means for processing new infusion data to provide a new infusion regiment for each of the plurality of patients,means for storing the infusion data for each of the plurality of patients,means for processing stored infusion data to renew an infusion regimen for each of the plurality of patients, andmeans for outputting the infusion data in a format readable by each of the infusion devices into memory; and

    means for transferring the infusion data associated with each of the patients to the infusion device associated with the respective patient.

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