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System for programming medical pumps with reduced-error

  • US 8,652,093 B2
  • Filed: 06/18/2012
  • Issued: 02/18/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of programming remote medical pumps using a medical pump including a housing, a pump mechanism supported by the housing and providing a pump adapted to work with an IV line together with at least one sensor sensing a parameter of material flowing through the IV line, a wireless network circuit, an electronic controller supported by the housing and communicating with the wireless network circuit, the pump and at least one sensor, the electronic controller executing a program stored in non-transitory computer readable storage medium to:

  • (a) connect to a wireless network;

    (b) communicate over the wireless network to submit a search query to a database on the wireless network providing a patient identification;

    (c) display a search query result of at least one patient to a user to receive input from the user to select a given patient from the search query result;

    (d) receive pump programming data from the database related to the given patient;

    (e) convert the pump programming data into data for controlling the medical pump; and

    (f) operate the medical pump according to the converted data, the method comprising the steps of;

    (a) connecting a wireless device to a network communicating with a database providing information identifying patients to pump programming data related to treatment of the patient;

    (b) communicating a search query from the wireless device over the network to the database to identify at least one given patient;

    (c) receiving search results from the database at the wireless device, the search results including pump programming data linked to patients;

    (d) selecting pump programming data related to the given patient;

    (e) converting the pump programming data into data for controlling a medical pump; and

    (f) operating the medical pump according to the converting data.

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