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Medical infusion pump capable of learning bolus time patterns and providing bolus alerts

  • US 20050278073A1
  • Filed: 05/28/2004
  • Published: 12/15/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/28/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A medical infusion pump, comprising:

  • an infusion pump processor in the medical infusion pump;

    an actuator in the medical infusion pump coupled to the infusion pump processor suitable for delivering medicament doses to a user;

    a storage coupled to the infusion pump processor, the storage further comprising more than one time interval groups, each of the more than one time interval groups being capable of storing one or more bolus time intervals;

    an input device coupled to the infusion pump processor suitable to allow the user to cause a bolus to be delivered;

    an alert mechanism coupled to the infusion pump processor suitable to warn the user; and

    a timer coupled to the infusion pump processor capable of maintaining time information;

    wherein the processor determines, using the user'"'"'s history of boluses delivered by the medical infusion pump in each of the more than one time interval groups, the one or more bolus time intervals during which a bolus is usually taken by the user in the each of the more than one time interval groups, and, activating the alerting mechanism at one or more calculated alert times associated with an active bolus time interval in the one or more bolus time intervals, if a bolus has not been taken yet in the active bolus time interval.

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