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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 03, 2017
Compounding device system, software and method for controlling the process of compounding admixtures
B. Braun Medical Inc., Bethlehem, PA (US);
Michael Y. Brown, Bethlehem, PA (US);
Jacob Albro Cowperthwaite, Bethlehem, PA (US);
David Earl Hershey, II, Bethlehem, PA (US);
Benjamin Richard Lane, Bethlehem, PA (US);
Aaron S. Pearl, Bethlehem, PA (US);
Mariano Mumpower, Bethlehem, PA (US);
Jeffrey Manfred Gunnarsson, Bethlehem, PA (US);
James Austin Kendall, Bethlehem, PA (US);
Christopher Allen Gray, Bethlehem, PA (US);
Stephanne Suzann Flint, Bethlehem, PA (US);
Mark David Steenbarger, Bethlehem, PA (US);
Alice Maria Weintraut, Bethlehem, PA (US);
B. BRAUN MEDICAL INC., Bethlehem, PA (US);
Abstract
An exemplary compounding method of controlling a compounding device to prepare an admixture of at least two distinct material sources can include examining material source solutions for incompatibility of the ingredients and operating a first and a second pump to prevent one of the incompatible source solutions from entering a common flow path. The processing method can detect degradation of a fluid line by evaluating one or more of calibration error rate data, cumulative volumetric flow data, or cumulative pump operation data. The processing method can also selectively transfer a first group of source solutions using the first pump, receiving pump data from one or more sensors that sense actions of the pumps, applying fluid correction factors and calculating discrete pump movements, the pump movements being indicative of an amount of source solution displacement by a pump, and operating the pumps to selectively dispense the source solution amounts according to a preparation order.