Drug container and drug infusion device comprising the same

• US 7,264,148 B2
• Filed: 09/11/2002
• Issued: 09/04/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha (Terumo Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha (Terumo Corporation)
• Inventors: Tachibana, Yasuharu
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee; Michael G.
• Assistant Examiner(s): TRAIL, ALLYSON NEEL
• Application Number:
  US10/489,334
• Publication Number:
  US 20050029277A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,819 Days
• Field of Search: 235/375, 705/3, 128/200.14, 128/200.21, 128/203.27
• US Class Current: 235/375
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/18 with alarm
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/60 with identification means
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/6018 providing set-up signals for the apparatus configuration
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/6054 Magnetic identification systems
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/142 Pressure infusion, e.g. using pumps
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/1456 with a replaceable reservoir comprising a piston rod to be moved into the reservoir, e.g. the piston rod is part of the removable reservoir
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/17 delivered via infusion or injection
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

When using a drug container having an identification tag fixed or detachably provided at a predetermined position of the container, the tag having drug data on a kind and a concentration of a drug and both or one of upper and lower limits of a flow rate on a continuous infusion and the upper and lower limits, time and flow rate on a one-shot administration recorded thereon, it is possible to ensure safety by prompting for a stop of injection by a warning when a setting beyond the upper and lower limits is performed and rewrite a liquid infusing time and a flow rate and so on required to be set according to symptoms of a patient.

Claims

1. A drug infusion device comprising:

a drug container having an identification tag fixed or detachably provided at a predetermined position of the container, the tag having data on a drug accommodated or to be accommodated recorded thereon, wherein the identification tap comprises;

a first storage portion in which non-rewritable drug data including a kind of the drug and upper and lower limits of a flow rate on a continuous infusion is recorded; and

a second storage portion in which rewritable data including the data on a liquid infusing time and a liquid infusing flow rate and the data on a patient and health workers is recorded; and

said drug infusion device further comprising;

loading means for rendering said container detachably loadable and infusing the liquid;

reading and rewriting means for reading and rewriting said drug data recorded on said identification tag after being loaded on said loading means;

display means for displaying said read drug data;

infusion setting means for having both or one of the upper and lower limits of the flow rate on the continuous infusion and the upper and lower limits, time and flow rate on a one-shot administration set by the user;

warning means for giving warnings including a beep, a display and a vibration; and

control means, connected to each of the means, for operating said warning means when a setting by said infusion setting means is outside a range of the read drug data.

2. The drug infusion device according to claim 1, wherein said container is a syringe for infusing the liquid of the drug charged in advance by movement of a pusher, and said identification tag is fixed on a flange portion or a syringe body.

3. The drug infusion device according to claim 1, wherein said reading and rewriting means performs said reading and rewriting in a state of accommodating said container in a sterilized bag.

4. A drug infusion device comprising:

a drug container having an identification tag fixed or detachably provided at a predetermined position of the container, the tag having data on a drug accommodated or to be accommodated recorded thereon, wherein the identification tap comprises;

a first storage portion in which non-rewritable drug data including a kind of the drug and upper and lower limits of a flow rate on a continuous infusion is recorded; and

a second storage portion in which rewritable data including the data on a liquid infusing time and a liquid infusing flow rate and the data on a patient and health workers is recorded;

wherein said container is a syringe for infusing the liquid of the drug charged in advance by movement of a pusher; and

said drug infusion device further comprises;

syringe loading means for loading said syringe detachably and moving said pusher to infuse the liquid;

reading and rewriting means for reading and rewriting said drug data recorded on said identification tag after the loading on said syringe loading means;

display means for displaying said read drug data;

infusion setting means for having both or one of the upper and lower limits of the flow rate on a continuous infusion and upper and lower limits, time and flow rate on a one-shot administration set by a user;

warning means for giving warnings including a beep, a display and a vibration; and

control means, connected to each of said means, for operating said warning means when a setting by said infusion setting means is outside a range of read drug data.

5. The drug infusion device according to claim 4, wherein said reading and rewriting means performs said reading and rewriting in a state of accommodating said syringe in a sterilized bag.

6. The drug infusing device according to claim 4, wherein said identification tag is fixed on a flange portion or a syringe body.