Pump infusion system

Abstract

An infusion pump system comprises a pump for infusing a drug into a patient, a storing unit for storing therapy data, drug data, protocol data, profile data, care type data, and feedback data received from said pump and/or other sources including information about particularities of therapies already carried out or currently running, an input unit for selecting therapy data, drug data, profile data, and care type data, an associating unit for associating the selected therapy data, drug data, profile data and care type data provided by said input unit and further adapted to determine based on said association specific protocol data and specific feedback data, wherein said storing unit also stores said association with said specific protocol data and said specific feedback data; and an output unit for outputting said specific protocol data with said specific feedback data.

1 - 27 . (canceled) 
     
     
         28 . A method for operating an infusion pump system, the method comprising:
 attaching a pump to a patient to cause infusion of a drug into the patient's body, the pump further configured to receive therapy feedback data;   storing a plurality of therapy data representing different therapies, a plurality of drug data representing different drugs, a plurality of protocol data representing different protocols each of which defines a specific drug delivery and/or application to a patient, a plurality of profile data representing different profiles relating to specificities relevant for a therapy, wherein the specificities relevant for the therapy comprise patient attributes, and delivery attributes, a plurality of care type data representing specific aspects of therapies, a plurality of alarm data comprising catheter blockage alarm data;   identifying the catheter blockage alarm data from the plurality of alarm data when a pump feedback data comprises a predetermined number of occlusion alarm data indicating a predetermined number of temporary interrupts of operation of the pump within a predetermined time period;   receiving a selection of specific therapy data representing a specific therapy from the plurality of therapy data, specific profile data representing a specific profile from the plurality of profile data, and specific care type data from the plurality of care type data;   generating a catheter blockage alarm when the pump feedback data comprises a number of occlusion alarms indicating a number of temporary interrupts of operation of the pump, the number of occlusion alarms exceeding a threshold number identified in the catheter blockage alarm data;   providing an association of the selected specific therapy data, the selected specific profile data and the selected specific care type data and further adapted to determine on a basis of the association specific protocol data representing a specific protocol from the plurality of protocol data and specific therapy feedback data representing a specific therapy feedback from the plurality of therapy feedback data, as well as to store the association along with the specific protocol data and the specific therapy feedback data;   outputting the specific protocol data along with the specific therapy feedback data; and   programming the pump in accordance with the specific protocol data and to adjust the programming of the pump in accordance with the therapy feedback data.   
     
     
         29 . The method of  claim 28 , further comprising: selecting a specific monitoring page format comprising predetermined fields, from a plurality of predetermined monitoring page formats, based on the specific care type data. 
     
     
         30 . The method of  claim 29 , further comprising generating a monitoring page based on the specific monitoring page format and comprising therapy feedback data adapted to be shown on a display. 
     
     
         31 . The method of  claim 28 , further comprising storing a plurality of therapy feedback data including information about particularities of therapies already carried out or currently running. 
     
     
         32 . The method of  claim 28 , further comprising storing route attributes. 
     
     
         33 . The method of  claim 32 , wherein the route attributes comprise at least one of an intravenous block or a branchial block. 
     
     
         34 . The method of  claim 28 , further comprising providing questions regarding the selected specific therapy and providing answers to the questions as therapy feedback. 
     
     
         35 . The method of  claim 34 , further comprising providing one or several proposed answers of each question, and receiving a proposed answer to a question as therapy feedback. 
     
     
         36 . The method of  claim 35 , wherein when the specific care type data relates to a palliative care pain, and providing at least a question of visual analog scale pains score at rest. 
     
     
         37 . An infusion pump system comprising:
 a pump adapted to be attached to a patient, to cause infusion of a drug into the patient's body, and to receive therapy feedback data;   a processor, communicatively coupled to the pump, and adapted to store a plurality of therapy data representing different therapies, a plurality of drug data representing different drugs, a plurality of protocol data representing different protocols each of which defines a specific drug delivery and/or application to a patient, a plurality of profile data representing different profiles relating to specificities relevant for a therapy, wherein the specificities relevant for the therapy comprise patient attributes, and delivery attributes, a plurality of care type data representing specific aspects of therapies, a plurality of alarm data comprising catheter blockage alarm data wherein the processor is configured to identify the catheter blockage alarm data from the plurality of alarm data when a pump feedback data comprises a predetermined number of occlusion alarm data indicating a predetermined number of temporary interrupts of operation of the pump within a predetermined time period;   an input unit adapted to receive a selection of specific therapy data representing a specific therapy from the plurality of therapy data, specific profile data representing a specific profile from the plurality of profile data, and specific care type data from the plurality of care type data, the input unit or the processor configured to generate a catheter blockage alarm when the pump feedback data comprises a number of occlusion alarms indicating a number of temporary interrupts of operation of the pump, the number of occlusion alarms exceeding a threshold number identified in the catheter blockage alarm data;   an association unit configured to provide an association of the selected specific therapy data, the selected specific profile data and the selected specific care type data provided by the input unit and further adapted to determine on a basis of the association specific protocol data representing a specific protocol from the plurality of protocol data and specific therapy feedback data representing a specific therapy feedback from the plurality of therapy feedback data, as well as to store the association along with the specific protocol data and the specific therapy feedback data;   an output unit adapted to output the specific protocol data along with the specific therapy feedback data, program the pump in accordance with the specific protocol data and adjust the programming of the pump in accordance with the therapy feedback data; and   a remote server connected to the pump and configured to store the plurality of therapy data, the plurality of drug data, the plurality of protocol data, and the plurality of profile data and comprising at least one of the association unit or the output unit.   
     
     
         38 . The system according to  claim 37 , wherein the input unit is further adapted to enable input of updated therapy feedback data for a given therapy, drug, profile and/or care type; and
 the processor is further adapted to replace current therapy feedback data by the updated therapy feedback data for the given therapy, drug, profile and/or care type and/or a current status of the pump.   
     
     
         39 . The system according to  claim 37 , wherein the input unit comprises a display. 
     
     
         40 . The system according to  claim 37 , wherein the input unit is at least one of a personal computer, a notebook, a tablet computer, a mobile telephone, or a mobile device. 
     
     
         41 . The system according to  claim 37 , wherein the input unit is adapted to provide questions regarding the selected specific therapy and to provide answers to the questions as therapy feedback. 
     
     
         42 . The system according to  claim 41 , wherein the input unit is adapted to provide a question of nutrition content data for any nutrient type data when inputting therapy data. 
     
     
         43 . The system according to  claim 37 , wherein the processor is further adapted to store a plurality of nutrient type data representing different types of nutrient and a plurality of nutrient content data representing different contents of nutrient, wherein specific nutrient content data representing a specific content of nutrient from the plurality of nutrient content data for specific nutrient type data representing a specific type of nutrient from the plurality of nutrient type data are linked to specific therapy data representing a specific therapy from the plurality of therapy data. 
     
     
         44 . The system according to  claim 43 , wherein the input unit is further adapted to enable an input of at least therapy data for storing in the remote server, when the specific care type data relates to an enteral or parenteral nutrition, the input unit is further adapted to enable an input of nutrient type data and nutrient content data for storing in the remote server, and the input unit is further adapted to output specific nutrient content data, including per time unit, in accordance with the selected specific therapy. 
     
     
         45 . The system according to  claim 37 , wherein the remote server stores a plurality of drug data representing different drugs and wherein the plurality of drug data includes data representing desired safety limits for a stored drug, including in accordance with specific protocol data. 
     
     
         46 . The system according to  claim 37 , wherein the remote server is further adapted to store a plurality of patient category data which differ from each other at least with regard to at least one of gender, age, bodyweight, or disease severity, wherein, specific protocol data representing one or more specific protocols from the plurality of protocol data and including specific time-to-infuse data and/or specific delivery route data are linked to specific profile data representing a specific profile from the plurality of profile data based on specific therapy data representing a specific therapy from the plurality of therapy data and further in accordance with specific patient category data representing a specific patient category from the plurality of patient category data. 
     
     
         47 . The system according to  claim 37 , wherein the processor is further adapted to store a plurality of care area data representing different care areas, and
 the input unit is further adapted to enable a selection of specific care area data representing a specific care area from the plurality of care area data, and the processor is further adapted to incorporate the selected specific care area data into the association.