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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2009
Gale White, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Roger J. Hill, Richardson, TX (US);
Michael J. Zakrewski, Carrollton, TX (US);
Ruth Kummerlen, College Station, TX (US);
Martyn Stuart Abbott, Dallas, TX (US);
Robert C. Brooks, Mabank, TX (US);
Gale White, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Roger J. Hill, Richardson, TX (US);
Michael J. Zakrewski, Carrollton, TX (US);
Ruth Kummerlen, College Station, TX (US);
Martyn Stuart Abbott, Dallas, TX (US);
Robert C. Brooks, Mabank, TX (US);
B. Braun Medical, Inc., Bethlehem, PA (US);
Abstract
A wireless communication system from an IV medication infusion pump to a hospital information management system (HIMS) is disclosed. The system includes an IV pump having pump operation circuitry for monitoring pre-selected characteristics of pump operation indicative of IV administration of medication to a patient. A transmitter or transceiver is connected to the pump operation circuitry for receiving a wireless pump signal representing instructional data to the IV pump and for transmitting a wireless pump signal representing the pre-selected pump operation characteristics. The wireless pump transmitter or transceiver communicates with a hospital information management system (HIMS). The HIMS includes a receiver or transceiver capable of transmitting and receiving the pump signal representing the pump operation characteristics and also includes a computer processor capable of storing and displaying the pump operation characteristics that are represented by the received wireless pump signal. In one embodiment, is a medication order transmitter capable of receiving doctor order input and transmitting a signal representing a pumping operation to the HIMS for comparison to pump operation characteristics represented by the pump signal.