Patient care system for critical medications
AssigneeICU Medical, Inc.
InventorWilliam Kenneth Day
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Abstract
A patient care system has a medical pump for delivering a medicine to a patient, and a processor in communication with the pump. The pump is configured to receive a first input on whether the medicine is a critical medicine, and a second input on a trigger condition that triggers a fail-operate mode for the critical medicine. The processor controls the medical pump to operate in the fail-operate mode, where the fail-operate mode continues delivery of the critical medicine when the trigger condition is triggered.
Claims20
A patient care system comprising:
- a medical pump for delivering a medicine to a patient;
- and
- a processor in communication with the medical pump, the processor comprising a memory and a logic adapted to:
- receive a first input on whether the medicine is a critical medicine;
- receive a second input on a trigger condition that triggers a fail-operate mode for the critical medicine, wherein the fail-operate mode continues delivery of the critical medicine when the trigger condition is triggered;
- store the first input and the second input in the memory;
- and
- control the pump to operate in the fail-operate mode when triggered.
A method for configuring delivery of a critical medicine, the method comprising:
- providing a medical pump and a processor in communication with the medical pump, wherein the processor comprises a memory and a logic;
- configuring the processor with an option for entering a first input on whether a medicine is a critical medicine;
- configuring the processor with an option for entering a second input on a trigger condition that triggers a fail-operate mode, wherein the fail-operate mode continues delivery of the critical when the trigger condition is triggered;
- storing the first input and the second input in the memory;
- and
- controlling the pump to operate in the fail-operate mode when triggered.
A patient care system comprising:
- a medical pump for delivering a medicine to a patient;
- and
- a processor in communication with the medical pump, the processor comprising a memory and a logic adapted to:
- receive a first input on whether the medicine is allowed to be delivered in a fail-operate mode;
- receive a second input on a trigger condition that triggers the fail-operate mode, wherein the fail-operate mode continues delivery of the medicine when the trigger condition is triggered;
- store the first input and the second input in the memory;
- and
- control the pump to operate in the fail-operate mode for the medicine when triggered.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.