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Infusion pump with bar code input to computer

US4978335A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateSep 29, 1989
Grant dateDec 18, 1990
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Expiry dateSep 29, 2009

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S128/01
  • WIPO fieldMedical technology
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An infusion pump has a housing for receipt of a syringe, a motor to drive the plunger of the syringe to expel a medicant within the syringe, a computer for controlling the motor and a place to mount the syringe. A bar code reader is mounted adjacent the syringe and the syringe has a pharmacist-applied bar code that programs the computer with the data for the dispensing of the medicant.

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