Digital assistant appliance for assisting an operator in the manual preparation of a liquid pharmaceutical composition in a medical instrument for administering the composition to a patient, and corresponding operating method

A method of assisting and monitoring an operator as the operator manually prepares a liquid pharmaceutical composition to be administered to a patient using a medical instrument, the method being performed by a digital assistant appliance and comprising:

• storing in a memory device, for each active principle of the liquid pharmaceutical composition, one or more first sample images of vials that can contain said active principle, and/or one or more second sample images of syringes that can be used to transfer the active principle from said vials to the medical instrument;
• acquiring, through an artificial viewing system, a vial image of a vial positioned on a scale by the operator and/or a syringe image of a syringe positioned on said scale by the operator;
• comparing said acquired vial image with each of said first sample images to determine whether the vial positioned on said scale by the operator is incorrect;
• and/or
• comparing said acquired syringe image with each of said second sample images to determine whether the syringe positioned on said scale by the operator is incorrect;
• and
• providing a warning to the operator, through a user-interface system, when the vial positioned on said scale is incorrect and/or the syringe positioned on said scale is incorrect.

A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by a computing device, cause to be performed a method of assisting and monitoring an operator as the operator manually prepares a liquid pharmaceutical composition to be administered to a patient using a medical instrument, the method being performed by a digital assistant appliance and comprising:

• storing in a memory device, for each active principle of the liquid pharmaceutical composition, one or more first sample images of vials that can contain said active principle, and/or one or more second sample images of syringes that can be used for transferring to transfer the active principle from said vials to the medical instrument;
• acquiring, through an artificial viewing system, an image of a vial positioned on a scale of the appliance by the operator and/or an image of a syringe positioned on the scale by the operator;
• comparing said acquired vial image with each of said first sample images to determine whether the vial positioned on the scale by the operator is incorrect;
• and/or
• comparing said acquired syringe image with each of said second sample images to determine whether the syringe positioned on the scale by the operator is incorrect;
• and
• providing a warning to the operator, through a user-interface system, when the vial positioned on said scale is incorrect and/or the syringe positioned on said scale is incorrect.

A method of preparing a liquid pharmaceutical composition to be administered to a patient using a medical instrument, the liquid pharmaceutical composition comprising one or more active principles, the method comprising:

• for each active principle:
• manually positioning, by an operator, a vial and a syringe to be imaged;
• acquiring, by a digital assistant appliance, images of the manually positioned vial and syringe;
• comparing, by the digital assistant appliance, the acquired images of the vial and the syringe with images of sample vials that can contain the active principle and images of sample syringes that can be used to transfer the active principle from the sample vials to the medical instrument, to determine if the manually positioned vial and syringe respectively correspond to one of the sample vials and one of the sample syringes;
• if it is determined that the manually positioned vial and syringe respectively correspond to one of the sample vials and one of the sample syringes, drawing, by the operator, the active principle from the vial using the syringe to transfer to the medical instrument;
• and
• if it is determined that the manually positioned vial and/or syringe do not respectively correspond to any of the sample vials or sample syringes, providing a warning to the operator, by the digital assistant appliance.