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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2014

Filed:

Dec. 21, 2010
Applicants:

Ricky L. Ledford, Little Canada, MN (US);

Sachin Kumar Choudhary, Bangalore, IN;

Lori Lynette Patoros, Woodbury, MN (US);

Inventors:

Ricky L. Ledford, Little Canada, MN (US);

Sachin Kumar Choudhary, Bangalore, IN;

Lori Lynette Patoros, Woodbury, MN (US);

Assignee:

Smiths Medical ASD, Inc., Rockland, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 31/00 (2006.01); A61M 5/142 (2006.01); A61M 5/168 (2006.01); A61M 5/14 (2006.01); A61M 39/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 5/14 (2013.01); A61M 5/142 (2013.01); A61M 2005/1403 (2013.01); A61M 5/1684 (2013.01); A61M 2039/0018 (2013.01); A61M 5/168 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and medical pump to perform a flushing procedure are provided. The medical pump is configured to execute the flushing procedure subsequent to an infusion procedure, the flushing procedure and infusion procedure lacking a specified relationship between each other until after performance of the infusion procedure. The method comprises performing an infusion procedure of a medicament with the medical pump and automatically querying in human detectable form whether to execute a flushing procedure in response to conclusion of the infusion procedure.


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