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US 5,153,827 AGranted
An infusion management and pumping system having an alarm handling system
AssigneeOmni-Flow, Inc.
InventorsJames E. Coutre, Wayne P. Griffin, Charles M. Crisler
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Abstract
An infusion management and pumping system having an alarm handling system is disclosed. During operation, the pumping system checks for a variety of alarm conditions and stores any alarms in a ranking according to urgency. The system is operative to alter the mode of pumping operation to correspond to the priority of the alarm conditions.
Claims14
An infusion system comprising:
- means for pumping at least one fluid to an output line from plural input lines;
- means for detecting alarm conditions;
- means for recording times at which the alarm conditions occur;
- means for assigning each alarm condition a priority among a plurality of priorities;
- means for altering the state of pumping operation to correspond to the priority of the detected alarm conditions;
- means for storing each alarm condition;
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- means for recalling each alarm condition in order of greater priority first and in a chronological order for alarm conditions having a same priority.
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