Automated drug preparation apparatus including automated drug reconstitution
AssigneeBaxter Corporation Englewood
InventorsDennis Tribble, Joel A. Osborne, Abdul Wahid Khan, Edward J. Lefebre
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Abstract
An automated medication preparation system for preparing a prescribed dosage of medication in a drug delivery device includes a plurality of stations for receiving, handling and processing the drug delivery device so that the prescribed dosage of medication is delivered to the drug delivery device and a transporting device that receives and holds more than one drug delivery device and moves the drug delivery devices in a controlled manner from one station to another station. The system is configured so that two or more separate drug delivery devices can be acted upon at the same time.
Claims20
A method for preparation of medication orders, comprising:
- storing in a database of a computer controller identifying information for a plurality of containers containing reconstitutable medications;
- identifying by the computer controller, for a medication order, a correct one of the plurality of containers for reconstitution;
- selecting a container containing a reconstitutable medication;
- scanning the selected container to read identifying information on the selected container;
- comparing the read identifying information to identifying information stored in the database for the identified container to confirm that the selected container is the identified container;
- reconstituting the medication in the selected container;
- delivering reconstituted medication from the selected container to a drug delivery device, wherein after the delivering step the selected container contains unused reconstituted medication;
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- storing the selected container containing unused reconstituted medication for subsequent use.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.