System and method for administering medicaments to a patient

• US 20130023851A1
• Filed: 03/03/2011
• Published: 01/24/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/05/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: B Braun Melsungen AG (B. Braun Holding GmbH & Co. KG)
• Original Assignee: B Braun Melsungen AG (B. Braun Holding GmbH & Co. KG)
• Inventors: Maier, Hans-Otto, Doenhoff, Torsten, Schmoll, Horst, Paetzold, Matthias
• Application Number:
  US13/577,017
• Publication Number:
  US 20130023851A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 604/506
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/08 Sensors provided with means for identification, e.g. barcodes or memory chips
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/145 Measuring characteristics of blood in vivo, e.g. gas concentration, pH value; Measuring characteristics of body fluids or tissues, e.g. interstitial fluid, cerebral tissuemeasuring of blood pressure or blood flow A61B5/02; non-radiation detecting or locating of foreign bodies in blood A61B5/06
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150229 Pumps for assisting the blood sampling
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150236 Pistons, i.e. cylindrical bodies that sit inside the syringe barrel, typically with an air tight seal, and slide in the barrel to create a vacuum or to expel blood
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150244 Rods for actuating or driving the piston, i.e. the cylindrical body that sits inside the syringe barrel, typically with an air tight seal, and slides in the barrel to create a vacuum or to expel blood
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150389 Hollow piercing elements, e.g. canulas, needles, for piercing the skin
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150503 Single-ended needles hollow piercing element tip design A61B5/150396, needle sets for catheters A61M25/06, needles for bringing media into the body A61M5/32
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150786 Optical identification systems, e.g. bar codes, colour codes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/155 Devices specially adapted for continuous or multiple sampling, e.g. at predetermined intervals devices loaded with multiple lancets simultaneously A61B5/15146
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/157 Devices characterised by integrated means for measuring characteristics of blood
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4839 combined with drug delivery
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2005/14208 with a programmable infusion control system, characterised by the infusion program
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/60 with identification means
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/6009 for matching patient with his treatment, e.g. to improve transfusion security
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2230/201 Glucose concentration
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/14244 adapted to be carried by the patient, e.g. portable on the body
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/1723 using feedback of body parameters, e.g. blood-sugar, pressure measurement of body parameters A61B5/00
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 2035/00881 network configurations
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 27/3271 Amperometric enzyme electrodes for analytes in body fluids, e.g. glucose in blood amperometry per se G01N27/49; aspects concerning the enzyme reagent C12Q1/001
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 2800/52 Predicting or monitoring the response to treatment, e.g. for selection of therapy based on assay results in personalised medicine; Prognosis
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/17 : delivered via infusion or injection

Abstract

The invention relates to a system and method for administering medicaments to a patient. The system comprises: a mobile medicament container with a liquid medicament; an identification-element-generating device for generating a first identification element with first data relating to the patient, medication and/or treatment, in order to apply this identification element to the medicament container; a reading device for reading the first data; a delivery device for delivering the medicament to the patient from the medicament container inserted into the delivery device, wherein the reading device is suitable for reading second data provided on/in a second identification element assigned to the patient and connected to the delivery device, and a control device within the delivery device sends a first control signal for activating the delivery process to at least one of a plurality of delivery units of the delivery device if the first and second data at least partially match.

Claims

1. A system for administering medicaments to a patient, comprising:

at least one mobile medicament container with at least one liquid medicament;

an identification element production device for producing at least one first identification element with first data relating to the patient, medicament and/or treatment in order to attach it to the medicament container;

at least one reading device for reading the first data from or out of the first identification element;

at least one supply device for supplying the medicament from the medicament container inserted in the supply device to the patient;

wherein the reading device is likewise suitable for reading second data, which are attached to or in a second identification element which is allocated to the patient, and is connected to the supply device, and

a control unit inside the supply device for transmitting a first control signal for activating a supply procedure to at least one of a plurality of supply units of the supply device if the first and the second data correspond at least in part.

2. The system according to claim 1, further comprising a first comparator unit inside the supply device for comparing the first and second data with respect to the correspondence of the data relating to the patient.

3. The system according to claim 1, characterized further comprising a second comparator unit inside the supply device for comparing the data—

relating to the medicament—

of the first data with second data relating to the medicament contained in a memory unit of the supply device.

4. The system according to claim 3, further comprising a selection unit of the supply device for the selection at least in part of the first and/or the second data relating to the medicament.

5. The system according to claim 1, further comprising a blocking unit for blocking the start of a supply procedure on receipt of a second control signal of the control unit, which is sent when the first and second data do not correspond at least in part.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein the first identification element is a barcode label, a Data Matrix code label and/or a transponder.

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein the supply device is an insulin pump, the supply unit is one of a plurality of insulin pump units and the medicament container is a syringe.

8. A method for administering medicaments to patients, with the following steps:

preparation of at least one liquid medicament in a mobile medicament container;

production of at least one first identification element with first data relating to the patient, medicament and/or treatment by means of an identification element production device;

application of the identification element to the medicament container;

reading of the first data from or out of the first identification element by means of at least one reading device;

reading of second data, which are attached to or in a second identification element which is allocated to the patient;

comparison of the first and second data for correspondence at least in part by means of a first comparator unit, and

activation of a supply procedure for supplying the medicament to the patient with a supply device by means of a first control signal of a control unit to the supply device.

9. The method according to claim 8, further comprising a step of reading third data which are attached to or in a third identification element which is allocated to a person treating the patient.

10. The method according to claim 8, further comprising a step of comparing first data—

relating to the medicament—

of the data with second data relating to the medicament saved in a memory unit of the supply device.