Registers – Coded record sensors – Particular sensor structure
Patent
1991-04-23
1992-11-17
LaRoche, Eugene R.
Registers
Coded record sensors
Particular sensor structure
235385, 235462, 283 81, G06K 710, G06F 1524
Patent
active
051645750
ABSTRACT:
Patients in hospitals are provided with identification bracelets which display a patient identity number in a machine-readable form, such as a bar code. Blood or other samples are taken at bedside from patients by a technician, nurse, or the like who carries a microprocessor-operated device which optically scans the coded patient identification bracelet. When the patient ID bracelet is read, the device lists the different blood tubes that are to be filled on a display screen. The device has a fixedly mounted onboard scanner which scans a preprinted bar code on the specimen tube which bar code identifies the type of tube being used. Just before, or after, the specimen is drawn, the tube is read by the onboard scanner, and a label is printed and placed on the tube, which label includes the patient's name; the patient's I.D. number; the tests to be performed on the specimen sample; the time and date the specimen was drawn; and the size and type of tube. The wrist band barcode ensures that the correct patient is being sampled, and the tube bar code ensures that the specimen drawer does not put the specimen label on the wrong tube.
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Jones William W.
Neeley William E.
Glembocki Christopher R.
Jones William W.
LaRoche Eugene R.
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