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4966580 Oral feeding appliance  
A device for administering oral fluid to a patient from a container (18) has a nipple (14) connected to the container (18) by a tube (16). The nipple (14) is held on the patient's tongue. A valve...
4959050 In-line infiltration detection apparatus and method  
The present invention provides a stand-alone, in-line device and method for detecting whether a fluid is being properly supplied to a patient, including means for delivering a test pulse of the...
4955860 Volumetric pump for parenteral perfusion  
Volumetric pump for use in the parenteral perfusion of solutions without the need for the substitution or inclusion of additional elements in traditionally used dropper systems. The pump consists...
4952205 Pressure infusion device  
A pressure infusion device for squeezing out a syringe having an absolute path sensor connected to the movable holder and supplying position data of the position of the syringe rod to a control...
4950235 Container-side occlusion detection system for a medication infusion system  
A system for detecting an occlusion in a fluid line is disclosed which can detect occlusions in the upstream or container side of a disposable cassette containing a fluid pump therein. The cassette...
4950245 Multiple fluid cartridge and pump  
A pump housing which contains a plurality of linear peristaltic pumps and receives a fluid source cartridge. The cartridge is provided with retaining knobs for engaging retaining holes in the front...
4946439 Dual source parenteral infusion system with secondary infusion module  
A dual source parenteral infusion system includes a primary controller which controls the flow rate of a parenteral solution, a display which displays parameters associated with the delivery of a...
4943279 Medical pump with infusion controlled by a detachable coded label  
This invention relates to a microprocessor-based medical pump with a number of manual controls. The operation of this pump requires the attachment of a magnetic label to the front of the pump. This...
4938742 Piezoelectric micropump with microvalves  
A silicon micropump which can be manufactured by established integrated circuit techniques, and which is provided with piezoelectric valves, is described. The micropump can be used to pump liquids...
4925152 Air trap for shutting off flexible plastic tubing  
This invention relates to an air trap for shutting off flexible plastic tubing, particularly infusion tubing, for instance, during a transfusion of blood the air trap will reliably shut off the...
4921481 Enteral feeding system utilizing gastrointestinal myoelectrography  
An improved system for initially positioning and for continuous or intermittent monitoring of the location of the distal end of a feeding tube in a patient's gastrointestinal tract and for...
4921480 Fixed volume infusion device  
In a gravity feed intravenous fluid delivery system, a fixed volume metering valve having an upwardly spring biased fluid-measuring piston that is also downwardly pressure biased and is effective...
4919650 Infusion pump  
A portable infusion pump assembly utilizing continuous drive propulsion means (8) to effect automatic and incremental displacement of a plunger (5) within a disposable syringe (3) so as to deliver...
4908017 Failsafe apparatus and method for effecting syringe drive  
Failsafe apparatus and method are disclosed for controlling fluid flow from syringes. One or more syringes are positioned so that the piston of each syringe is caused to be precisely displaced to...
4898579 Infusion pump  
An infusion pump for administering fluid from a fluid source to a patient comprises a base member having an electric motor for driving a fluid pump housed within a cassette detachably mountable on...
4874359 Power infuser  
A modular, power augmented medical infusion apparatus to provide rapid transfusion of relatively large quantities of blood, blood components, colloid, and fluids to patients. All components of the...
4869266 Patient monitoring unit for surgical use  
A patient monitoring unit is used to follow the actual changes in a patient's weight during the course of a surgical procedure. A patients' fluid inventory is vital to the patients' well being and...
4865581 Retroperfusion control apparatus, system and method  
Retroperfusion control apparatus for supplying arterial blood of a patient to the venous side of the patient's heart including a pump having an inlet and an outlet and a piston movable through a...
4865584 Cassette for programable multiple input infusion system  
An infusion system for administering multiple infusates at individually programmable rates, volumes, and sequences in any order from any one or more of plural fluid input ports through a patient...
4863425 Patient-side occlusion detection system for a medication infusion system  
A system for detecting an occlusion in a fluid line is disclosed which can detect occlusions in the downstream or patient side of a disposable cassette containing a fluid pump thereon. The cassette...
4857050 Ratiometric air-in-line detector  
An air-in-line detector for use with an IV administration system comprises a light emitter positioned relative to a plurality of light sensors for receiving an IV tube therebetween. A comparator is...
4854324 Processor-controlled angiographic injector device  
An angiographic injector device for use in x-ray photography for delivering contrast media to a patient at controlled rates and pressures. A processor elicits injection parameters from an operator...
4850972 Progammable multiple pump medication infusion system with printer  
A multiple channel medication infusion system is disclosed which has a plurality of disposable pump cassettes mounted on a single main pump unit, thereby making the system compact and resulting in...
4846792 Automatic infiltration detection system and method  
An infusion system for infusing a fluid into a patient comprising an infusion device for delivering the fluid in both a normal delivery pattern and a test pulse and a conduit for conducting the...
4845487 Pump system for enteral/parenteral fluid control and delivery  
A medical pumping system has a supply tube (2), an outlet tube (6), a readily sterilizable, disposable cassette (3) connected to the tubes and engaged with the pump, and means (22,24) such as a...
4838856 Fluid infusion flow control system  
Flow of fluid from primary and secondary reservoirs is induced along parallel flow paths to a common infusion device under gravity or pump inducing modes, respectively. The fluid delivered to the...
4838857 Medical infusion device  
A medication infusion device comprises a retainer for holding a medication-containing receptacle of the type which is actuatable to expel the contents of medication therefrom. A sensor is included...
4836752 Partial restriction detector  
A device for detecting partial restriction in a fluid line connecting a fluid source with an IV infusion pump comprises a gauge mounted on the pump and operatively associated with the line to...
4832689 Infusion means  
Infusion liquid flows from a container via a hose controlled by a squeezing valve into a measuring chamber which has an existing predetermined upper filling level and a predetermined lower filling...
4830218 Flow compensated pump  
A controlled fluid delivery system comprising a pump and electric drive apparatus which provides precise metering of the fluid, and includes an error correction apparatus by which the system errors...
4822336 Blood glucose level sensing  
A method of sensing blood glucose levels in the steps of passing glucose from a peritoneal fluid through a semi-permeable membrane and into a closed chamber, metabolizing the passed glucose in the...
4821028 Flow control system  
A dual controller for an IV infusion system comprises a microprocessor to concurrently control the rate of infusion through two IV units. The control of the rate of infusion is provided by a...
4820268 Transfusion apparatus  
A transfusion apparatus including a pump section for sequentially pressing and blocking a transfusion tube to feed a liquid, a detecting section for detecting a given cycle of pump operation in the...
4816019 Infiltration detection system using pressure measurement  
A system is provided for detecting the presence of an infiltration condition in a line delivering fluid to a patient. Stepping means subjects the fluid in the line to a negative pressure step. The...
4808161 Pressure-measurement flow control system  
A system is provided for controlling flow of a first fluid through a line. Dispensing means isolates a region of the first fluid in the line from effects of pressure in the line outside of the...
4797655 Detector system for monitoring a fluid containing tube  
Apparatus for monitoring fluid flow in dialysis systems include a tube holder for mounting the tube at a predetermined location on a dialysis monitor, a transmitter for transmitting a signal such...
4782817 Ventricular support system  
An extracorporate ventricular support system includes a two bladder pump employing continuous gravity fill to the first bladder, while the second bladder is pneumatically driven to produce a...
4779614 Magnetically suspended rotor axial flow blood pump  
An implantable axial flow blood pump maximizes the blood flow while minimizing the dimensions of the pump. By magnetically suspending a rotor of relatively small diameter coaxially in a cylindrical...
4778445 Centrifugal blood pump with backflow detection  
A heart/lung bypass system having a centrifugal blood pump driven by a motor detects reverse flow conditions in which blood is flowing from the load to the pump outlet. An alarm control provides an...
4778451 Flow control system using boyle's law  
A dispensing arrangement in a fluid line that isolates a region of fluid in the line from pressure effects in the line outside the region. A housing of measuring fluid surrounds the region so that...
4776842 Device for the administration of medications  
The invention relates to an apparatus for the administration of medications. The apparatus includes a safety system which prevents a harmful overdose when the person using the apparatus is unable...
4769001 Method and apparatus for calibrating plural pump fluid flow system  
A blood constituent processing system uses a disposable plastic fluid flow path into which an anticoagulant must be accurately metered with respect to pumped blood flow. In a preliminary...
4767406 Syringe pumps  
A syringe pump comprises (a) a casing; (b) within said casing, a motor (c) an externally screw-threaded drive rod connected at one end thereof to said motor so that, in use, the motor can rotate...
4756706 Centrally managed modular infusion pump system  
A plurality of infusion pump modules are detachably connected to a portable central management unit. The modules can be programmed by the central management unit, and their operating information...
4752289 Infusion apparatus  
An infusion pump pressure monitor comprises a drive (26, 27, 30, 31) for an infusion pump, a pressure sensor (38) to monitor the delivery pressure downstream of the pump, and a programmed computer...
4747828 IV fluid line occlusion detector  
A detector for determining when an occlusion has occurred in the fluid line of an IV administration set comprises means associated with an IV infusion pump to determine the resistive force exerted...
4741732 Open-loop control of drug infusion  
A method of determining a generalised infusion rate profile for the delivery of drugs into the circulation comprising the steps of: (a) infusing a drug at arbitrary but known rates into a group...
4741736 Programmable infusion pump  
A cartridge, a control system and an infusion pump provide an infusion system. The cartridge contains one or more flexible compartments and pressure roller for squeezing fluid from the...
4734092 Ambulatory drug delivery device  
A device for infusing a drug into an ambulatory patient, the drug being contained in a transparent spiral conduit which is embedded in a disposable flexible casting conformingly adhered to the...
4731051 Programmable control means for providing safe and controlled medication infusion  
An implantable programmable infusion pump (IPIP) is disclosed and generally includes: a fluid reservoir filled with selected medication; a pump for causing a precise volumetric dosage of medication...