Integrated system including medication delivery pen, blood monitoring device, and lancer
AssigneeBecton, Dickinson and Company
InventorsMarian Gravel, Benjamin Gasparello, Joseph Ferraro, Ashutosh Sharma, Robert John Strowe, Antonio A. Bendek, Robert C. Uschold, William Thomas Antoshkiw
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Abstract
A portable diagnostic and medication delivery system that includes a housing and a monitor disposed in the housing for monitoring a characteristic of a bodily fluid sample obtained from an individual. A medication delivery pen and a lancer are each removably mounted to the housing. The monitor, which may be integrated into the housing, may monitor blood glucose levels, for example, and the pen may be employed for the delivery of insulin.
Claims45
In a diagnostic and medication delivery system, a unit comprising:
- a housing, said housing having a first compartment adapted to removably receive and store a medication delivery pen and a second compartment adapted to removably receive and store a lancer;
- and
- a monitor integrated in the housing for monitoring a characteristic of a sample of a bodily fluid,
- wherein said monitor is not integrally attached to said medication delivery pen, such that a user is provided with the flexibility to use different medication delivery pens with said system but only one monitor.
A diagnostic and medication delivery system, said system comprising:
- a housing;
- a monitor integrally disposed in the housing for monitoring a characteristic of a sample of a bodily fluid;
- a medication delivery pen removably mounted in said housing;
- and
- a lancer removably mounted in said housing,
- wherein said monitor is not integrally attached to said medication delivery pen, such that a user is provided with the flexibility to use different medication delivery pens with said system but only one monitor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.