Damon J. Coffman;Philip N. Eggers;David L. Scholtterbeck;Timothy W. Vanderveen
发明人:
Philip N. Eggers,David L. Scholtterbeck,Timothy W. Vanderveen,Damon J. Coffman
申请号：
US12854087
公开号：
US08235938B2
申请日:
2010.08.10
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2012
代理人:
摘要：
The present invention is directed to a system and method for providing care to a patient, comprising a patient care device having a number of configuration databases stored in a memory in the device. Each configuration database preferably includes protocols, operating limits, rule sets and/or operating features that collectively define an operating environment, or personality, of the device. Selection of a specific configuration database preferably is based at least in part upon patient-specific information obtained from any location in a distributed hospital network. Examples of such patient-specific information include patient age or size, patient medical characteristics, a location of the patient or a location of the care device. In a preferred embodiment, programming a patient care device to deliver a drug to a patient entails activating a configuration database and scanning a machine-readable drug label identifying a particular protocol stored in the activated database. The selected protocol includes default parameters for delivering the drug, and the label optionally includes instructions for deviating from the default protocol.
