Infusion pump with an electronically loadable drug library and a user interface for loading the library

A drug infusion pump for use with a container containing a given drug, said container including a machine readable label, the label specifying an identifier of the given drug and possibly other information about the given drug, said pump comprising:

• a pump mechanism which during operation causes the given drug to be delivered to a patient from the container;
• a programmable controller controlling the pump mechanism;
• a memory storing a drug library, said drug library containing a plurality of drug entries, there being associated with each drug entry a set of associated drug delivery parameters for configuring the drug infusion pump;
• a label reader which during use reads the contents of the label on the container;
• means responsive to the label reader for identifying an entry in the drug library that corresponds to the given drug;
• means for configuring the programmable controller by using the set of drug delivery parameters associated with the identified entry from the drug library;
• and
• means for causing the controller to run the pump mechanism using the set of drug delivery parameters associated with the identified entry from the drug library.