Prevention of use of a contaminated medical product
OwnerNorman Romanickinventor
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Abstract
This disclosure relates generally to contaminable medical products. In particular, this disclosure provides systems, apparatuses, and methods for preventing contaminated use of medical products that become contaminated upon being used for an intended purpose that requires the operation of a medical treatment apparatus, medical treatment system, or both. A medical product may have a unique identity and a permissive operation session, that is associated with the unique identity, may be created to allow a use of the medical device when uncontaminated, while preventing the use of the medical product after it has been presumably contaminated during the permissive operation session.
Claims19
A system comprising:
- a medical product having an identification tag defining a unique identity that corresponds to the medical product, the unique identity being maintained in a usage log along with other unique identities that correspond to other medical products, wherein the medical product becomes contaminated upon a use of the medical product for an intended purpose;
- a medical treatment apparatus that enables, during a treatment session, the use of the medical product for the intended purpose, wherein the use requires the medical treatment apparatus to operate;
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- a controller programmed to:
- prevent the medical treatment apparatus from operating before a session commencement time of a permissive operation session and prevent the medical treatment apparatus from operating after a session termination time of the permissive operation session, wherein the permissive operation session is at least partially based on a usage status indicating whether the medical product is used or un-used,
- transmit, to a usage logger, a request for the usage status, the request including the unique identity that corresponds to the medical product,
- receive, from the usage logger, a response that indicates the usage status, and create, based on the response indicating that the medical product is un-used, the permissive operation session, wherein the permissive operation session extends for a period of time circumscribed by the session commencement time and the session termination time, and wherein operation of the medical treatment apparatus is unrestricted after the session commencement time until being restricted at the session termination time.
A method executed on one or more computers for preventing a contaminated use of a medical product that becomes contaminated upon being used for an intended purpose, the intended purpose requiring operation of a medical treatment apparatus, the method comprising the steps of:
- receiving a request to create a permissive operation session of the medical treatment apparatus to enable the medical product to be used for the intended purpose, the request including a unique identity that corresponds to the medical product;
- determining a usage status of the medical product by looking up the unique identity in a usage log, the usage status being associated with the unique identity;
- transmitting a response to the request based at least in part on the usage status, the response either:
- granting the request by creating the permissive operation session in response to one or more processors determining that the usage status is below a usage threshold, wherein the permissive operation session extends for a period of time circumscribed by a session commencement time and a session termination time, and wherein the operation of the medical treatment apparatus is unrestricted after the session commencement time until being restricted at the session termination time;
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- denying the request by not creating the permissive operation session in response to the one or more processors determining that the usage status is equal to or greater than the usage threshold, and
- updating the usage status or the usage threshold, or both, of the medical product to allow for a subsequent request to be granted by creating a subsequent permissive operation session.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.