摘要 |
<p>The system includes a medication-receiving assembly (12) which collects medications automatically dispensed from storage assemblies therefor and a transport assembly for moving the collected medications to a loading assembly (20), wherein the loading assembly is arranged and positioned so that the medications move by gravity action from an upper end thereof, past a pair of opposing, angled deflectors (62, 64) which are individually controllable and which guide the medications into selected portions of a medication bin (73) in a medication cart (22), which accommodates medications for a large number of patients, such as all the patients on a hospital ward. Supplemental medications not present in the storage assemblies can be provided with a hand-loaded supplemental doses assembly (26). The medication cart may then be moved directly to the ward and the bedside of the individual patients in turn.</p> |