Patient controlled infusion apparatus and method

Details Patient controlled infusion apparatus and method Patient controlled infusion apparatus and method

1990-11-02

1992-08-04

Grieb, William H.

Surgery

Means for introducing or removing material from body for...

Treating material introduced into or removed from body...

604135, A61M 500

Patent

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051354918

ABSTRACT:
Patient controlled analgesic (PCA) infusion apparatus and method are disclosed, in which a liquid desired to be self-infused into a patient is controllably supplied from a positively pressurized supply reservoir to a lower pressure dose chamber of a patient operable syringe from which the patient may expel the liquid and infuse such into a suitable infusion site, as through a cannula inserted into the patient, the supply of liquid from the reservoir to the dose chamber being controlled by a flow control metering tube assembly which provides a selected flow rate for a reference fluid and reference pressure differential. A vacuum-induced void is created in the dose chamber after each infusion by the patient in order to aid in effecting a desired substantially constant pressure differential between the pressurized supply source and the dose chamber, so as to effect a desired selected substantially constant refill flow rate of liquid from the supply reservoir and into the dose chamber. A check valve is provided in an outlet tube to enable patient actuated infusion outflow of liquid from the dose chamber while opposing reverse inflow back into the dose chamber, and thus aiding in enabling a desired suction-effecting vacuum induced void to be created within the dose chamber during the dose chamber refill operation as a function of fast rearward spring acting return movement of a piston forming the movable rear wall of the dose chamber.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4298000 (1981-11-01), Thill et al.
patent: 4828551 (1989-05-01), Gertler et al.
patent: 4863429 (1989-09-01), Baldwin
patent: 4904243 (1990-02-01), Bruera

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