INTRAVENOUS INFUSION MONITORING APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD

摘要

An intravenous infusion system that shows infusion flow rate, volume of medication infused, and alarming during malfunction. User intervention to adjust flow rates deviation is possible, using the data already stored in the system prior to the onset of making the adjustment. The system detects flow rate by measuring temperature dynamics in a section of the fluid path, unlike other systems that measures the electromechanical output of the pumping source if the counting of drops is not possible. This fundamental difference allows the invention to be used in any system that has a pumping source that provides a continuous fluid path as it measures actual flow of fluid in a segment of the fluid path, independent of pumping mechanism design.

主权项

1. An apparatus for thermal signal transmission with an external device, the apparatus comprising:
a tubular member having a sidewall and a fluid channel surrounded by the sidewall, the fluid channel has an inlet and an outlet; wherein the sidewall includes a first portion and a second portion, the first portion is to allow a first thermal signal to transmit into the fluid channel through the first portion, the second portion is to allow a second thermal signal to transmit from the fluid channel through the second portion.