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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 23, 2023
Carefusion 303, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Igor Nesterenko, San Diego, CA (US);
Evan Chen, San Diego, CA (US);
Lisa Diggett, Olathe, KS (US);
Robert Regedanz, San Diego, CA (US);
CAREFUSION 303, INC., San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for enforcing a cleaning of a medical device are disclosed. A method includes receiving an indication that a medical device has been exposed to a contaminate, providing, responsive to receiving the indication, an instruction to disable the medical device, receiving, after transmitting the instruction, cleaning information indicating that a cleaning of the medical device was attempted, identifying a predetermined cleaning procedure corresponding to the medical device and the contaminate, determining, based on the cleaning information, that the medical device was cleaned according to the predetermined cleaning procedure corresponding to the medical device and the contaminate, and enabling the medical device responsive to determining that the medical device was cleaned according to the predetermined cleaning procedure.