System for programming medical pumps with reduced-error
First Claim
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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Abstract
Medical pumps may obtain programming data from a database through the use of a remote query process which allows the individual pump to flexibly request data from existing hospital databases, to identify the necessary information in those databases, and to convert that data for use without the need for manual programming or a centralized pump control system.
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16 Claims
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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. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
- (a) connect to a wireless network;
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11. A medical pump comprising:
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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, the search query providing a patient identification; (c) in response to (b), 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) in response to (c), receive pump programming data from the database related to the given patient selected by the user; (e) convert the pump programming data into data for controlling the medical pump; and (f) operate the medical pump according to the converted data. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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