Operating an Infusion Pump System
AssigneeM2 Medical A/S
InventorsMark Estes, Mitchell Wenger, Morten Mernoe, James Causey, Todd Kirschen
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Abstract
Some embodiments of a medical infusion pump system include a pump device and a removable controller device. When the pump device and the removable controller device are removably attached to one another, the components may provide a portable infusion pump unit to dispense medicine to a user. In particular embodiments, the removable controller device includes a user interface to readily provide information, for example, about the operation of the pump.
Claims20
A method of administering medicinal fluid to a patient, the method comprising:
- (a) receiving user input to program a controller in a control module, the user input being received via a user interface that is disposed in a unitary structure with the control module;
- (b) installing a medicinal fluid container in a fluid delivery module that comprises an actuator module;
- (c) attaching the fluid delivery module to the control module;
- (d) causing the actuator module to dispense a medicinal fluid from the fluid container to a patient in response to an activation signal generated by the controller, wherein the controller generates the activation signal according to the received user input;
- (e) separating the fluid delivery module from the control module;
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- (f) repeating steps (b)-(e) with the previously used control module, a different medicinal fluid container, and a different fluid delivery module.
A method of administering medicinal fluid to a patient, the method comprising:
- (a) obtaining a first fluid delivery module that is a disposable, one-time-use only device, the first fluid delivery module that comprising an electrically powered actuator module;
- (b) obtaining a first medicinal fluid container that is separate from the first fluid delivery module;
- (c) installing the first medicinal fluid container in the first fluid delivery module;
- (d) releasably mounting the first fluid delivery module to a control module so that the control module is in electrical communication with the first fluid delivery module;
- (e) causing the actuator module to dispense a medicinal fluid from the first fluid container to a patient in response to an activation signal generated by the controller module;
- (f) detaching the first fluid delivery module from the control module;
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- (g) repeating steps (c)-(f) with the previously used control module, a second medicinal fluid container different from the first medicinal fluid container, and a second fluid delivery module different from the first fluid delivery module.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.