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US 2005/0229931 A1Published application
Controlling drug delivery apparatus
AssigneeRespironics (UK) Ltd.
InventorsJonathan Denyer, Anthony Dyche, Richard Marsden
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Abstract
A drug package comprising a plurality of drug vials containing drugs for delivery to a patient in a drug delivery device; and a data carrier including drug treatment information for use by the drug delivery apparatus.
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A system for delivery of a drug to a patient comprising:
- a drug delivery device arranged to deliver a dose of the drug to the patient over a plurality of breaths, the device including a breath analyser which
- (i) analyses a patient's breathing during drug delivery, wherein the analysis by the breath analyser includes quantitatively measuring at least one parameter of the patient's breathing;
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- (ii) generates breath information on a patient's breathing during drug delivery wherein the breath information includes the at least one quantitative measurement of the patient's breathing;
- a data carrier onto which the drug delivery device is arranged to place the breath information for a number of drug deliveries;
- a data analyser arranged to analyse the breath information from the data carrier, and to derive characteristics of the patient's breathing;
- and a trend generator of analysing the breath information and the characteristics of the patient's breathing over a number of drug deliveries.
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A method of optimizing treatment from a drug delivery device which is arranged to deliver a dose of the drug to the patient over a plurality of breaths comprising:
- analysing a patient's breathing during drug delivery, including quantitatively measuring at least one parameter of that breathing;
- generating breath information from the patient's breathing during drug delivery, including the quantitative measurements of that breathing;
- transferring the breath information to a data analyser;
- deriving characteristics of the patient's breathing from the breath information;
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- identifying non-complaint use of the drug delivery device;
- and analyzing analysing the breath information and the characteristics of the patient's breathing over a number of drug deliveries.
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A method of identifying changes in condition of a patient over time of treatments from a drug delivery device comprising:
- analysing a patient's breathing during drug delivery, including quantitatively measuring at least one parameter of that breathing;
- generating breath information from the patient's breathing during drug delivery, including the quantitative measurement of that breathing;
- transferring the breath information to a data analyser;
- deriving characteristics of the patient's breathing from the breath information;
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- analysing the characteristics of the patient's treatments over a number of drug deliveries to identify trends in those characteristics.
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