Controlling system for medical pump

• US 9,486,576 B2
• Filed: 03/19/2015
• Issued: 11/08/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Yamada, Kazuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Leon-Viet
• Application Number:
  US14/663,268
• Publication Number:
  US 20150273143A1
• Time in Patent Office: 600 Days
• Field of Search: 604/75, 705/2
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/502 User interfaces, e.g. screens or keyboards
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/60 with identification means
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/1415 Stands, brackets or the like for supporting infusion accessories
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/168 Means for controlling media flow to the body or for metering media to the body, e.g. drip meters, counters ; Monitoring media flow to the body flow control in general G05D7/00
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/17 delivered via infusion or injection
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

Provided is a medical pump monitoring system in which operating states of multiple medical pumps used in hospitals can be intensively monitored through a monitor. The medical pump management system includes a plurality of medical pumps, a transmitting unit that is provided in each of the medical pumps and transmits pump identification information of each of the medical pumps, a receiving unit that is installed in each of the beds and receives the pump identification information transmitted from the transmitting unit, an input/output control unit that causes the bed which has received the pump identification information to be associated with the medical pump, and a display unit that displays the operating state of the medical pump.

Claims

1. A medical pump management system for managing operating states of a plurality of medical pumps in a region where a plurality of beds are arranged, the system comprising:

a medical pump, wherein the medical pump comprise;

a transmitting unit that is provided in the medical pump and transmits pump identification information of the medical pumps;

a start operation unit to allow the medical pump to start a pumping operation;

a receiving unit that is in wireless communication with the transmitting unit and installed in a bed, wherein the receiving unit receives the pump identification information from the transmitting unit when the transmitting unit of the medical pump is within physical proximity of the receiving unit;

an input/output control unit in communication with the receiving unit of the bed, wherein the input/output unit automatically associates the bed, including the receiving unit, which has received the pump identification information, with the medical pump, which is provided with the transmitting unit that has transmitted the pump identification information, when the receiving unit receives the pump identification information, and wherein the input/output control unit allows the pump to be operated by the start operation unit if the input/output control unit recognizes the medical pump is associated with the bed within a predetermined interval; and

a display unit in communication with the input/output control unit, wherein the display unit displays the operation state of the medical pump installed in the bed in accordance with an instruction from the input/output control unit in association with the bed.

2. The medical pump management system according to claim 1, wherein the region where the plurality of beds, respectively including the installed receiving unit, are arranged is a management region, and wherein the medical pump management system further comprises:

an entrance receiving unit is installed at an entrance of the management region, wherein the entrance receiving unit receives the pump identification information; and

wherein the input/output control unit causes a medical pump, associated with no bed but which the pump identification information has been received in the entrance receiving unit, to be displayed in the display unit as a non-associated pump.

3. The medical pump management system according to claim 1, wherein the input/output control unit cancels the association of the medical pump with the bed when the medical pump is in a stopped state of operating.

4. The medical pump management system according to claim 3, wherein the region where the plurality of beds, respectively including the installed receiving units, are arranged is a management region, and wherein the medical pump management system further comprises:

an entrance receiving unit, for receiving the pump identification information, is installed at an entrance of the management region; and

wherein the input/output control unit causes a medical pump, associated with no bed but which the pump identification information has been received in the entrance receiving unit, to be displayed in the display unit as a non-associated pump.

5. The medical pump management system according to claim 4, wherein, when the input/output control unit cancels the association of the medical pump with the bed, but when the medical pump remains in the management region, the input/output control unit causes the medical pump to be displayed in the display unit as a non-associated pump.

6. The medical pump management system according to claim 1, wherein the input/output control unit allows only the medical pump associated with any one of the beds to be operated by the start operation unit.

7. The medical pump management system according to claim 6, wherein the region where the plurality of beds, respectively including the installed receiving units, are arranged is a management region, and wherein the medical pump management system further comprises:

an entrance receiving unit, for receiving the pump identification information, is installed at an entrance of the management region; and

wherein the input/output control unit causes a medical pump, associated with no bed but which the pump identification information has been received in the entrance receiving unit, to be displayed in the display unit as a non-associated pump.

8. The medical pump management system according to claim 7, wherein, the input/output control unit prevents the non-associated pump from executing the start operation.

9. The medical pump management system according to claim 7, wherein the input/output control unit cancels an associated state of the medical pump with respect to the bed only when the medical pump is judged to be in a stopped state of operating.

10. The medical pump management system according to claim 9, wherein, when the input/output control unit cancels the association of the medical pump with the bed, but when the medical pump remains in the management region, the input/output control unit causes the medical pump to be displayed in the display unit as a non-associated pump.

11. The medical pump management system according to claim 10, wherein, the input/output control unit prevents the medical pump, which has the associated state cancelled, from executing a next start operation.

12. A method for managing operating states of a plurality of medical pumps in a region where a plurality of beds are arranged, the method comprising:

transmitting pump identification information for a medical pump from a transmitting unit, provided in a medical pump, to a receiving unit that is installed in the bed, wherein the medical pump is in physical proximity to the bed, wherein the medical pump comprises a start operation unit to allow the medical pump to start a pumping operation;

the receiving unit associated with the bed receiving the pump identification information transmitted from the transmitting unit, when the transmitting unit of the medical pump is within physical proximity of the receiving unit;

an input/output control unit associating the bed, including the installed receiving unit which has received the pump identification information, with the medical pump provided with the transmitting unit;

and the input/output control unit allowing the medical pump to be operated by the start operation unit if the input/output control unit recognizes the pump as a pump associated with the bed within a prejudged interval; and

a display unit displaying the operating state of the medical pump associated with the bed in accordance with an instruction from the input/output control unit in association with the bed.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the region where the plurality of beds, respectively including the installed receiving units, are arranged is a management region, and wherein the method further comprises:

providing an entrance receiving unit at an entrance of the management region; and

the entrance receiving unit receiving the pump identification information when a second medical pump enters the management region; and

the input/output control unit causing the second medical pump, not associated with a bed but which the pump identification information has been received by the entrance receiving unit, to be displayed in the display unit as a non-associated pump.

14. The method according to claim 13, further comprising:

the input/output control unit canceling the association, of the medical pump, with respect to the bed only when the medical pump is judged to be in a stopped state of operating.

15. The method according to claim 14, further comprising:

the input/output control unit causing the medical pump, having a cancelled association and still within the management region, to be displayed in the display unit as a second non-associated pump.

16. The method according to claim 13, further comprising:

the input/output control unit allowing the medical pump associated with the bed to be operated by a start operation unit; and

the start operation unit starting a pumping operation on the medical pump, if the input/output control unit has allowed the operation.

17. A non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon for performing a method for managing operating states of a plurality of medical pumps in a region where a plurality of beds are arranged, the method comprising:

receiving pump identification information from a transmitting unit associated with a medical pump at a receiving unit installed in a bed, wherein the medical pump is in physical proximity to the bed, and wherein the pump identification information is received only when the transmitting unit of the medical pump is within physical proximity of the receiving unit, wherein the medical pump comprises a start operation unit to allow the medical pump to start a pumping operation;

associating the bed, which has received the pump identification information, with the medical pump that provided the pump identification information;

displaying an operating state of the medical pump associated with the bed in accordance with an instruction received by an input/output control unit in association with the bed; and

the input/output control unit allowing the pump to be operated by the start operation unit if the input/output control unit recognizes that the medical pump is a pump associated with the bed within a prejudged interval.

18. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 17, wherein the bed is arranged in a management region, and wherein the method further comprises:

receiving second pump identification information, from an entrance receiving unit, when the second medical pump enters the management region; and

causing the second medical pump, not associated with the bed but which the pump identification information has been received by the entrance receiving unit, to be displayed as a non-associated pump.

19. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 18, further comprising:

canceling an associated state, of the medical pump, with respect to the bed only when the medical pump is judged to be in a stopped state of operating; and

causing the medical pump, having the cancelled associated state and still within the management region, to be displayed as a second non-associated pump.

20. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 18, further comprising:

allowing the medical pump to start a pumping operation only if the medical pump remains associated with the bed; and

starting a pumping operation on the medical pump, if the pumping operation is allowed.