Medical device adaptive control for hostile environment
AssigneeCareFusion 303, Inc.
InventorsJay Jyotindra DAVE, Igor NESTERENKO
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Abstract
A medical device is configured to monitor, using one or more sensors, an environmental condition of a physical environment proximate to a medical device, and to determine when a value representative of the environmental condition exceeds a threshold for safe operation of the medical device with regard to care of a patient. Responsive to the value exceeding the threshold, an operation mode of the medical device is automatically switched from a first mode currently programmed for the care of the patient to a second mode, the second mode using different parameters than the first mode to control the medical device.
Claims20
An infusion device, comprising:
- an infusion pump;
- a battery configured to power the infusion pump;
- and
- a control unit,
- wherein the control unit is configured to:
- monitor a value representative of a condition of the battery;
- determine that the value representative of the condition of the battery exceeds a predetermined threshold of operation of the infusion pump;
- and
- after determining that the value exceeds the predetermined threshold,
- switch an operation mode of the infusion device to reduce power provided from the battery to a hardware component associated with the infusion device.
A machine-implemented method, comprising:
- monitoring a value representative of a condition of a battery that powers an infusion device;
- determining that the value representative of the condition of the battery exceeds a predetermined threshold for operation of an infusion pump of the infusion device;
- and
- after determining that the value exceeds the predetermined threshold:
- switching an operation mode of the infusion device to reduce power provided from the battery to a hardware component associated with the infusion device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.