Printed matter – Method
Patent
1992-08-14
1995-03-28
Bell, Paul A.
Printed matter
Method
283 70, 283900, 221 2, 221 12, B42D 1500
Patent
active
054010594
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to a process and a unit for univocal pairing of drugs corresponding to a prescribed treatment with a given patient.
The need is known of guaranteeing the safeness of operations leading to the administration of drugs to hospitalized patients.
Analysed as a whole, this problem imposes the need of automating, in a closed circle, the steps of assigning, preparing and administering drugs to a given patient.
Among these steps the most dangerous is obviously the administration of the drug. In fact, while any errors in the assignment and preparation can be remedied and reversed, this is obviously not true for the step of administration, wherein a safeness is required that is intrinsic and thus independent of the action of operators or of the patient himself.
Within this scope it is particularly important that the administration of the drug be preceded by a non-subjective verification with the patient's data so as to avoid any possible error derived from a possible exchange of the drugs destined for different patients.
It is also important, even though within certain tolerances to be determined and defined on a case by case basis, to observe the hours of administration.
The existence of staff shifts in the hospital, in the absence of an adequate automated support structure, causes these requirements to be observed only with difficulty, especially at night.
The object of the present invention is to accomplish a process and a unit which allow the avoidance of any possible error in administration, observing the set hours, and to execute the updating of the case sheets to confirm that administration has taken place.
According to the invention such objects are attained with a process for the univocal pairing of drugs corresponding to a given prescribed treatment with a given patient, characterized in that it provides for assignment of identification data to each individual patient, permanent association of said data to said patient through a support device that can be attached to the patient himself, prescription and writing into a case sheet of a treatment for said patient, withdrawal and recognizing of a drug corresponding to the prescribed treatment, introduction of the withdrawn drug into a container previously marked with identification data of the patient and of a drug administration to be performed, closure of said container, its transmission to a drug's delivery station, verification of the agreement between the data marked on the container and those of identification associated with the patient, opening of the container for extraction of the drug contained therein, verifying that it agrees with the treatment prescribed for the patient by reading said patient identification data on said support device and drug's identification data and comparing them one with the other and with the prescribed treatment and, in case of agreement, issuing a signal to enable the administration of the drug to the patient.
Preferably, the opening of the container takes place by removal of a part of it, which once administration has taken place is associated with the patient's case sheet to confirm that administration has taken place.
As an alternative, it may be provided that, once administration has taken place, a confirmation document is issued that can be associated with the patient's case sheet to confirm that administration has taken place.
For the execution of the abovementioned process a unit is provided which comprises essentially a machine for marking support devices for the patient's identification data, say, arm bands, a dolly machine for reading the patient's identification data, the recording of the prescribed treatment, the reading of the identification data of the drug to be administered and the issue of a signal to enable the administration of the drug itself, and a machine for the preparation and filling of a container with the prescribed drug.
The marking machine preferably comprises a magazine of the support devices for the patient's identification data and a transfer device that withd
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Bell Paul A.
Healtech S.A.
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