Medication infusion kit

• US 8,517,989 B2
• Filed: 06/14/2011
• Issued: 08/27/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Monumedical, LLC
• Original Assignee: Monumedical, LLC
• Inventors: Duncan, David R.
• Primary Examiner(s): BERDICHEVSKY, AARTI
• Application Number:
  US13/160,279
• Publication Number:
  US 20110306928A1
• Time in Patent Office: 805 Days
• Field of Search: 604/140, 604/141, 604/143, 604/146, 604/147, 604/149, 206/557, 206/561, 206/564
• US Class Current: 604/143
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 39/223 Multiway valves
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/002 Packages specially adapted therefor, e.g. for syringes or needles, kits for diabetics needle protection, e.g. caps, A61M5/3202; for sharps A61B50/3001
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/1452 pressurised by means of pistons
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/14546 Front-loading type injectors
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/16809 by repeated filling and emptying of an intermediate volume pressure infusion using positive displacement pumps A61M5/142
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/16813 by controlling the degree of opening of the flow line
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/2053 Media being expelled from injector by pressurised fluid or vacuum for infusion A61M5/145, A61M5/155
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 1/36 with moulded compartments or partitions
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 77/2008 the container flange being crimped over the cover

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention include a self-powered infuser with a medicament containing vessel coupled to the infuser capable of exerting sufficient pressure to cause a medicament to flow from the containing vessel, through intravenous tubing, and into a patient'"'"'s circulatory system. The infuser and vessel may be contained within a sealable kit which may have a separate container for perishable medications such that the medications may be inspected and changed without exposing the remainder of the kit'"'"'s contents. The infuser may be recyclable or disposable.

Claims

1. An infusion kit comprising:

an infuser;

a medicament containing vessel having an opening capable of receiving and holding a flowable medicament therein, said vessel operatively coupled to said infuser, wherein said infuser is capable of exerting sufficient pressure within said vessel to cause the medicament to flow from said vessel'"'"'s opening;

a tray having a top surface and shaped to define a first well and at least one medicament well;

a removable cover sealed over said first well, wherein said infuser comprises;

a chamber, a driver disposed with said chamber, a piston mounted on the end of said driver, wherein an airtight seal is formed between said piston and said chamber, a handle integrally formed with said driver, wherein when handle is drawn back, a vacuum force is created within said chamber distal to said piston;

a clamp coupled to said chamber;

wherein said medicament containing vessel is comprised of a syringe coupled to said chamber by said clamp, wherein syringe and chamber are held tightly together, wherein said tray is shaped to define a seam and foldable flap cover, wherein said foldable flap cover may be folded along said seam and closed to cover said medicament well, wherein said infuser and medicament containing vessel are disposed within the first well;

at least one medicament is disposed within said medicament well, wherein said medicament has packaging indicia on its surface;

wherein said foldable flap cover may be opened and closed independently of removable cover, wherein removable cover may remain sealed as said foldable flap cover is opened and closed, wherein said foldable flap cover is at least partially transparent, wherein at least a portion of the packaging indicia on the surface of said medicament disposed within said medicament well is viewable while foldable flap cover is in the closed position.

2. The infusion kit of claim 1, further comprising a stopcock capable of being coupled to said medicament containing vessel;

a vial adapter capable of being coupled to said stopcock;

intravenous tubing capable of being coupled to said stopcock or said medicament containing vessel.

3. The infusion kit of claim 1, further comprising:

a three-way stopcock having a first port, a second port, and a third port, the first port of said stopcock operatively coupled to said vessel'"'"'s opening, said stopcock disposed within said first well;

a vial adaptor operatively coupled to said second port of said stopcock, said vial adaptor disposed within first well;

an infusion tubing operatively coupled to the third port of said stopcock, said infusion tubing disposed within said first well;

wherein the stopcock may be rotated to obstruct a single port and permit flowable materials to flow between the remaining two ports.