Electronic multi-patient medication-time-intake programmer and alarm

Abstract

A pocket-size Electronic Multi-Patient Medication-Time-Intake Programmer and Alarm System for use in homes, offices, clinics and hospitals in order to properly program a plurality of patients taking a singular or a plurality of medications, respectively, based on the desired time interval or frequency in hours as well as the duration in days; the device has a memory system in which all the program data during the certain time frame becomes stored and utilized to trigger the alarm system of the device to give the patient or the individual taking care of the patient or patients, the correct indication of the patient identification and the medicine identity to be taken at the particular instant when the alarm sounds, by sliding a switch to a 'READ' position thus displaying all the relevant data into the proper LED or LCD displays; the device has the capability of shutting off the alarm system when alarm sounds are not desired to commence, especially during night-time rest of the patient without affecting the internal progression of the succeeding scheduled time and day of medication-intake of the singular or multiplicity of patients as well as singular or a plurality of medications. The device is capable of registering the actual time and actual date by pushing the corresponding function key; the time and date can be programmed by the user to respond to the actual time and date at any time desired.