Smart vial adapter and method
AssigneeBecton, Dickinson and Company
InventorsTianqi Hang, Uzair Siddiqui
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Abstract
A smart vial adapter is capable of measuring the dose of a drug that is withdrawn from a vial, measuring the time of a dose capture event, monitoring the vial temperature, measuring the amount of motion or perturbation the vial is subjected to, capturing various other parameters that can provide additional insights associated with the drug or the amount of the dose being drawn from the vial, and communicating the recorded information to a companion application on a computer, smartphone or other device. Related methods are also disclosed and claimed.
Claims13
A system including an electronic device connected to a vial adapter, the system comprising:
- the vial adapter including:
- a housing having a sensor cavity, a first end configured to be attached to a vial and a second end having a fluid port sealed by a penetrable septum;
- a vial access cannula having an internal lumen, the vial access cannula affixed to the housing and communicating with the fluid port, the vial access cannula being positioned within the first end of the housing for penetrating a septum of a vial attached to the housing, the sensor cavity of the vial adapter being open to the internal lumen;
- electrical components contained within the housing for performing at least one of dose capture, condition monitoring and information reporting function with respect to a drug that is contained in or drawn from a vial attached to the housing;
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- a microcontroller communicating with the electrical components to provide instructions and record data;
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- the electronic device including:
- a display communicating with the microcontroller of the vial adapter to display the data recorded based on the instructions received.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.