AMBULATORY INFUSION SYSTEM WITH ALERT PRIORITIZING FEATURES

摘要

Disclosed is an ambulatory infusion system (100, 100', 600), the ambulatory infusion system (100, 100', 600), including: (a) an electronically controlled dosing unit (1 10), the dosing unit (110) being designed to be carried by a user for an extended time period and concealed from view, (b) a monitoring unit (111, 120, 620), the monitoring unit (111, 120, 620) being designed to repeatedly test the occurrence of a number of alerting conditions of the ambulatory infusion system (100, 100', 620) and to change, upon detection of an alerting condition, a corresponding alerting status from a deactivated state to an activated state while maintaining other alerting statuses unaffected, (c) an alerting unit (130, 630), the alerting unit (130, 630) being designed to provide an alert to a device user with respect to an alerting condition, the alert including information identifying the alerting condition; (d) an alert handling unit (121, 621), the alert handling unit (121, 621) storing an alerting priority for each of the alerting conditions and being designed to repeatedly determine, among the activated alerting statuses, an alerting status of the highest alerting priority and to control the alerting unit (130, 630) to provide an alert with respect to the corresponding alerting condition.