Microprocessor controlled ambulatory medical apparatus with hand held communication device
First Claim
1. A method of delivering a medium to a patient employing a medical system having an ambulatory medical device (MD), for providing treatment to a body of a patient, and a communication device (CD) for sending messages to or receiving messages from the MD, the method comprising:
- storing a delivery profile containing a plurality of parameter values, each value corresponding to a predefined time period that is used to control the treatment provided to the body;
providing the MD with at least one treatment amount numerical accumulator for accumulating numerical values corresponding to the fractional portions of a quantized amount;
deriving an initial value for the numerical accumulator from the delivery profile;
configuring the MD to provide at least one quantized amount of treatment to the body of the patient, upon the numerical accumulator accumulating a numerical value corresponding to at least one quantized amount of treatment;
adding during each time interval, numerical values corresponding to fractional portions of quantized amounts to the numerical accumulator; and
retaining a numerical value corresponding to the remaining portion of the quantized amount of the treatment in the numerical accumulator for later delivery;
wherein configuring the MD to provide at least one quantized amount of treatment to the body of the patent comprises;
delivering the medium to the body of a patient, with a pumping mechanism, in a series of discrete time intervals;
wherein the amount of the medium to be delivered in each time interval is represented as a number of whole pump strokes or a number of fractional pump strokes; and
wherein the numerical value corresponding to fractional pump strokes are added to the numerical accumulator to reach a value corresponding to the volume of a whole pump stroke and the MD is configured to deliver the medium in whole pump strokes.
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Abstract
An implantable infusion pump possesses operational functionality that is, at least in part, controlled by software operating in two processor ICs which are configured to perform some different and some duplicate functions. The pump exchanges messages with an external device via telemetry. Each processor controls a different part of the drug infusion mechanism such that both processors must agree on the appropriateness of drug delivery for infusion to occur. Delivery accumulators are incremented and decremented with delivery requests and with deliveries made. When accumulated amounts reach or exceed, quantized deliverable amounts, infusion is made to occur. The accumulators are capable of being incremented by two or more independent types of delivery requests. Operational modes of the infusion device are changed automatically in view of various system errors that are trapped, various system alarm conditions that are detected, and when excess periods of time lapse between pump and external device interactions.
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30 Claims
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1. A method of delivering a medium to a patient employing a medical system having an ambulatory medical device (MD), for providing treatment to a body of a patient, and a communication device (CD) for sending messages to or receiving messages from the MD, the method comprising:
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storing a delivery profile containing a plurality of parameter values, each value corresponding to a predefined time period that is used to control the treatment provided to the body; providing the MD with at least one treatment amount numerical accumulator for accumulating numerical values corresponding to the fractional portions of a quantized amount; deriving an initial value for the numerical accumulator from the delivery profile; configuring the MD to provide at least one quantized amount of treatment to the body of the patient, upon the numerical accumulator accumulating a numerical value corresponding to at least one quantized amount of treatment; adding during each time interval, numerical values corresponding to fractional portions of quantized amounts to the numerical accumulator; and retaining a numerical value corresponding to the remaining portion of the quantized amount of the treatment in the numerical accumulator for later delivery; wherein configuring the MD to provide at least one quantized amount of treatment to the body of the patent comprises; delivering the medium to the body of a patient, with a pumping mechanism, in a series of discrete time intervals; wherein the amount of the medium to be delivered in each time interval is represented as a number of whole pump strokes or a number of fractional pump strokes; and wherein the numerical value corresponding to fractional pump strokes are added to the numerical accumulator to reach a value corresponding to the volume of a whole pump stroke and the MD is configured to deliver the medium in whole pump strokes. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method for operating an ambulatory medical device (MD) having MD electronic control circuitry that has at least one MD telemetry system and at least one MD processor, and a communication device (CD) having CD electronic control circuitry that has at least one CD telemetry system and at least one CD processor, the method comprising:
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storing a delivery profile containing a plurality of parameter values, each value corresponding to a predefined time period that is used to control the treatment provided to the body; providing the MD with at least one numerical accumulator for accumulating numerical values corresponding to the fractional portions of a quantized treatment amount; sending or receiving, with the CD telemetry system, messages to or from the MD telemetry system; containing an infusion media in a reservoir of the MD; delivering at least a portion of the quantized amount of the infusion media; and
retaining a numerical value corresponding to the remaining portion of the quantized amount of the infusion media in the numerical accumulator for later delivery;programming the CD with at least two quantities relating to at least two amounts of infusion media delivery; deriving at least one of the quantities from the delivery profile; and delivering the infusion media with the medical device by generating a number of pump strokes of the pumping mechanism to transfer a volume of infusion media that corresponds to the simultaneous delivery of the at least two amounts; wherein the at least two quantities represent volume of the infusion media to be delivered; and wherein the medical device generates a number of pump strokes to cause a net volume of infusion media to be delivered that is equal to the sum of the at least two quantities; delivering the medium to the body of a patient, with a pumping mechanism, in a series of discrete time intervals; wherein the amount of the medium to be delivered in each time interval is represented as a number of whole pump strokes or a number of fractional pump strokes; and wherein the numerical value corresponding to fractional pump strokes are added to the numerical accumulator to reach a value corresponding to the volume of a whole pump stroke and the MD is configured to deliver the medium in whole pump strokes. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method for operating an ambulatory medical device (MD) having MD electronic control circuitry that has at least one MD telemetry system and at least one MD processor, and a communication device (CD) having CD electronic control circuitry that has at least one CD telemetry system and at least one CD processor, the method comprising:
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storing a delivery profile containing a plurality of parameter values, each value corresponding to a predefined time period that is used to control the treatment provided to the body; providing, with the MD, a treatment to a body of a patient, and sending or receiving, with the CD telemetry system, messages to or from the MD telemetry system; providing, with the MD a quantized amount of treatment or monitoring of the body of the patient; deriving the quantized amount from the delivery profile if it represents a basal delivery rate; adding during each time interval, numerical value corresponding to at least one treatment amount to a numerical accumulator or fractional portions of the quantized amounts; holding a first numerical value and a second numerical value in the numerical accumulator, wherein the first value represents numerical values corresponding to whole portions of the quantized amounts of treatment to or monitoring of the body of the patient and wherein the second value represents numerical values corresponding to fractional portions of the quantized amounts of treatment to or monitoring of the body of the patient; retaining a numerical value corresponding to the remaining portion of the quantized amount of the treatment in the numerical accumulator for later delivery; delivering the medium to the body of a patient, with a pumping mechanism, in a series of discrete time intervals; wherein the amount of the medium to be delivered in each time interval is represented as a number of whole pump strokes or a number of fractional pump strokes; and wherein the numerical value corresponding to fractional pump strokes are added to the numerical accumulator to reach a value corresponding to the volume of a whole pump stroke and the MD is configured to deliver the medium in whole pump strokes. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. A method for operating an ambulatory medical device (MD) having MD electronic control circuitry that has at least one MD telemetry system and at least one MD processor, and a communication device (CD) having CD electronic control circuitry that has at least one CD telemetry system and at least one CD processor, the method comprising:
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storing a delivery profile containing a plurality of parameter values, each value corresponding to a predefined time period that is used to control the treatment provided to the body; providing the MD with at least one numerical accumulator for accumulating numerical values corresponding to fractional portions of a quantized infusion media amount; sending or receiving, with the CD telemetry system, messages to or from the MD telemetry system; containing an infusion media in a reservoir of the MD; containing a pumping mechanism in the MD for transferring the infusion media from the reservoir to the body of the patient; programming the CD with at least two quantities relating to at least two amounts of infusion media delivery; deriving at least one of the quantities from the delivery profile; delivering at least a portion of the quantized amount of the infusion media with the medical device by generating a number of pump strokes of the pumping mechanism to transfer a volume of infusion media that corresponds to the simultaneous delivery of the at least two amounts; retaining a numerical value corresponding to the remaining portion of the quantized amount of the treatment in the numerical accumulator for later delivery; wherein a first quantity of the at least two quantities comprises a basal rate at which the infusion media is continuously delivered; wherein a second quantity of the at least two quantities comprises a bolus dose volume of the infusion media; wherein a third quantity of the at least two quantities comprises a bolus dose time duration during which the bolus dose volume of the infusion media is administered; wherein a bolus rate is set as the bolus dose volume divided by the bolus dose time duration; and wherein the MD generates pump strokes to transfer the infusion media at a rate that corresponds to the sum of the basal rate and the bolus rate for a time equal to the bolus duration so as to cause a temporary increase in the rate at which the infusion media is delivered; wherein the numerical value corresponding to fractional pump strokes are added to the numerical accumulator to reach a value corresponding to the volume of a whole pump stroke and the MD is configured to deliver the medium in whole pump strokes.
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30. A method for operating an ambulatory medical device (MD) having MD electronic control circuitry that has at least one MD telemetry system and at least one MD processor, and a communication device (CD) having CD electronic control circuitry that has at least one CD telemetry system and at least one CD processor, the method comprising:
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storing a delivery profile containing a plurality of parameter values, each value corresponding to a predefined time period that is used to control the treatment provided to the body; providing the MD with at least one numerical accumulator for accumulating numerical values corresponding to the fractional portions of a quantized infusion media amount; sending or receiving, with the CD telemetry system, messages to or from the MD telemetry system; containing an infusion media in a reservoir of the MD; containing a pumping mechanism in the MD for transferring the infusion media from the reservoir to the body of the patient; programming the communication device with at least two quantities relating to at least two amounts of infusion media delivery; deriving at least one of the quantities from the delivery profile; delivering at least a portion of the quantized amount of the infusion media with the MD by generating a number of pump strokes of the pumping mechanism to transfer a volume of infusion media that corresponds to the simultaneous delivery of the at least two amounts; providing the numerical accumulator for storing the at least two values of infusion media and the numerical accumulator retaining a numerical value corresponding to the remaining portion of the at least two values of the infusion media in the numerical accumulator for later delivery; wherein a first quantity of the at least two values comprises a basal rate at which the infusion media is continuously delivered; wherein a second quantity of the at least two values comprises a bolus dose volume of the drug; wherein the medical device generates pump strokes as quickly as possible to transfer the bolus dose volume in addition to the volume of infusion media transferred at the basal rate, so that the net amount of the infusion media delivered corresponds to the sum of the bolus dose volume and the volume of the infusion media delivered at the basal rate; and wherein a numerical value corresponding to fractional pump strokes are added to the numerical accumulator to reach a value corresponding to the volume of a whole pump stroke and the MD is configured to deliver the medium in whole pump strokes.
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