PUMP INFUSION SYSTEM

• US 20120016295A1
• Filed: 07/19/2011
• Published: 01/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Micrel Medical Devices S.A.
• Original Assignee: Micrel Medical Devices S.A.
• Inventors: TSOUKALIS, Achilleas
• Granted Patent: US 8,551,038 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 604/66
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/17 delivered via infusion or injection
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

In a pump infusion system comprising a pump adapted to be attached to a user and to cause infusion of pharmaceutical substances into the user'"'"'s body, questions regarding the effects of administration of the pharmaceutical substances are provided, answers to said questions are transmitted to an attending staff, said answers are recorded, and said pump is controlled so as to adjust the dose of the pharmaceutical substances in accordance with said answers. Further, for a safe remote programming of such a pump infusion system, a predetermined program is assigned, a protocol to be programmed is compared with a protocol coming from the pump, possible errors of non-medically certified intervening devices and means are eliminated, and the programming is executed.

Claims

1. Pump infusion system comprising a pump adapted to be attached to a user and to cause infusion of pharmaceutical substances into the user'"'"'s body, characterized by questions-providing means for providing questions regarding the effects of administration of the pharmaceutical substances, transmitting means for transmitting answers to said questions to an attending staff, recording means for recording said answers, and control means for controlling said pump so as to adjust the dose of the pharmaceutical substances in accordance with at least one of said answers.

2. Pump infusion system according to claim 1, characterized in that said questions-providing means is adapted to provide questions in predetermined or algorithmically calculated time intervals.

3. Pump infusion system according to claim 1, characterized by sensor means adapted to determine therapeutic results or side effects of the therapy due to the infusion of the pharmaceutical substances, wherein said controlling means is adapted to also adjust the dose of the pharmaceutical substances in accordance with the output of said sensor means.

4. Pump infusion system according to claim 1, characterized by a distress feedback modification means adapted to trigger said questions-providing means.

5. Pump infusion system according to claim 1, characterized in that said questions-providing means is adapted so that the frequency and timing of the questions is associated with the dosing of the pharmaceutical substances on the user'"'"'s demand.

6. Pump infusion system according to claim 1, characterized by a telecommunication means adapted to provide a communication between parts of said pump infusion system, and/or between at least one part of said pump infusion system, in particular the pump, and outwards.

7. Pump infusion system according to claim 1, characterized in that said control means is adapted to adjust the dose of the pharmaceutical substances by means of a programming to be performed locally or remote by the attending staff, or by means of a local or remote algorithm of an automatic control.

8. Pump infusion system according to claim 1, characterized by server means including at least one database for storing data regarding therapy, administration of the pharmaceutical substances, configuration of therapy infusion system user interfaces for all devices, pharmaceutical substances per therapy, user questions per therapy, protocols and enabling options and limits for remote infusion adjustment per kind of therapy, alarm and alarm enabling configuration, safety check configuration, pharmaceutical substance preparation prescription, infusion progress and events or actions, and means for transferring at least a part of said data to said control means.

9. Pump infusion system according to claim 8, characterized in that said control means is adapted to allow the local and/or remote programming within predetermined limits according to the kind of therapy, pharmaceutical substance and/or user.

10. Pump infusion system according to claim 1, characterized in that said control means is adapted so as to adjust the dose of the pharmaceutical substances within predetermined limits according to the kind of therapy, pharmaceutical substance and/or user.

11. Pump infusion system according to claim 1, characterized by coding means for coding relevant data and information, in particular about the user, the pump, the pharmaceutical substances and the attending staff, by predetermined codes and/or biometric features, and identification means for identifying said relevant data and information in accordance with use of their code, wherein said control means is adapted to allow an infusion of pharmaceutical substances after acknowledgement of said identification means.

12. Method for remote programming a pump infusion system, said pump infusion system comprising a pump adapted to be attached to a user and to cause infusion of pharmaceutical substances into the user'"'"'s body, characterized by the steps of

assigning to a predetermined program,

comparing a protocol to be programmed with a protocol coming from said pump,

eliminating possible errors of non-medically certified intervening devices and means, and

executing programming.

13. Method for remote programming a pump infusion system, said pump infusion system comprising a pump adapted to be attached to a user and to cause infusion of pharmaceutical substances into the user'"'"'s body, characterized by the steps of

sending infusion parameters from a user interface to a server means, storing them in a database in the server means, and also buffering them in the user interface,

retrieving said infusion parameters from the database of the server means and sending them back to the user interface,

in the user interface, comparing the infusion parameters buffered therein with the infusion parameters sent back from the server means in order to verify whether or not an error has occurred during the transmission process, and, if it is found that no error has occurred during the transmission process, sending a “

user validation”

message from the user interface to the server means, and

upon receipt of the “

user validation”

message at the server means, transferring the infusion parameters from the server means to the pump.

14. According to claim 13, characterized by the further steps of

sending the infusion parameters from the pump back to the server means,

in the server means, comparing the infusion parameters stored therein with the infusion parameters sent back from the pump in order to verify whether or not an error has occurred during the transmission process, and, if it is found that no error has occurred during the process, sending an acknowledgement from the server means to the pump, and

transmitting a programming execution command from the server means to the pump, and programming the pump by using the infusion parameters.

15. Method for remote programming a pump infusion system, said pump infusion system comprising a pump adapted to be attached to a user and to cause infusion of pharmaceutical substances into the user'"'"'s body, characterized by the steps of

sending infusion parameters from a user interface to a server means, storing them in a database in the server means, and also buffering said infusion parameters in the user interface,

retrieving said infusion parameters from the database of the server means and sending them to the pump,

sending said infusion parameters from the pump back to the server means, and

in the server means, comparing the infusion parameters stored therein with the infusion parameters sent back from the pump in order to verify whether or not an error has occurred during the transmission process, and, if it is found that no error has occurred during the process, sending an acknowledgement from the server means to the pump.

16. Method according to claim 15, characterized by the further steps of

sending the infusion parameters from the server means also back to the user interface,

in the user interface, comparing the infusion parameters buffered therein with the infusion parameters sent back from the server means in order to verify whether or not an error has occurred during the transmission process, and, if it is found that no error has occurred during the process, transmitting a “

user validation”

message from the user interface to the server means, and

transmitting a programming execution command from the server means to the pump, and programming the pump by using the infusion parameters.