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US 8,616,393 B2Granted
Medication delivery control systems and methods
AssigneeBecton, Dickinson and Company
InventorMatthew Vessa
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Abstract
Drug delivery systems and methods involve associating unique keys to patients. Medication intended for a patient is then locked in a container that may only be unlocked with the particular unique key associated with that patient or a master key. The master key may have a counter to count the number of times that it is used, so as to discourage unnecessary use of the master key. The medication containers may be locked with template locks that are subsequently encoded to be unlocked by a particular unique key.
Claims11
A medication control system comprising:
- a plurality of unique keys, each key having a stem and a plurality of protrusions, each key being associable with a patient;
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- a plurality of locking caps configured to be locked to medication containers to restrict access to medication contained therein, each locking cap having an inner cap adapted to lock onto the medication container and an outer cap surrounding and rotatable about the inner cap, the outer cap having a plurality of depressions corresponding to at least one of the keys and a hole so that when the plurality of protrusions is inserted into the plurality of depressions the stem can contact the inner cap to unlock the locking cap.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.