|Número de publicación||US7938816 B2|
|Tipo de publicación||Concesión|
|Número de solicitud||US 12/756,837|
|Fecha de publicación||10 May 2011|
|Fecha de presentación||8 Abr 2010|
|Fecha de prioridad||2 Jun 2004|
|También publicado como||CA2568138A1, CA2568138C, CA2796516A1, CA2796516C, CN1960774A, CN100577227C, DE602005024130D1, EP1753487A1, EP1753487B1, EP2210631A2, EP2210631A3, US7722594, US20100228189, WO2006018555A1|
|Número de publicación||12756837, 756837, US 7938816 B2, US 7938816B2, US-B2-7938816, US7938816 B2, US7938816B2|
|Cesionario original||Laboratoire Aguettant|
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|Citas de patentes (20), Clasificaciones (33), Eventos legales (1)|
|Enlaces externos: USPTO, Cesión de USPTO, Espacenet|
This is a Continuation of application Ser. No. 11/597,381, filed Feb. 15, 2007, which in turn is a U.S. National Stage Application of PCT/FR2005/050414, filed Jun. 2, 2005, which claims priority to French Application No. FR 04.05919, filed Jun. 2, 2004. The disclosures of each of these applications is hereby incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.
The present invention relates to the infusion of medication contained in a flexible bag, which flows into the veins of a patient via an infusion line, under the effect of gravity, the bag being suspended above the patient.
More particularly, the invention relates to a bag for medical use for infusing medication by gravity, comprising at least two compartments, one containing medication and the other containing a rinsing solution, and separation/communication means for automatically rinsing the medication bag and infusion line.
The invention is intended to solve, simply and inexpensively, two major problems encountered with this type of infusion, namely:
The solution to these two problems consists in rinsing the line before and after infusion and rinsing the bag after infusion using a harmless, inexpensive solution (isotonic sodium chloride for example).
Devices are already known which can at least partially rinse the bag/line, limiting medication loss and the risks for care personnel.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,242,392 describes an infusion system comprising a chamber for a rinsing liquid connected to the infusion tubing between the medication bag and the injection device and located lower than the medication bag. When the medication has been administered, the rinsing solution rinses the infusion tubing and injection device automatically.
Patent FR 2 794 983 describes a closed-circuit infusion system comprising at least one medication bag and dispensing and infusion means, associated with a rinsing bag in such a way that the rinsing solution can flow through the dispensing and infusion means, and also selection means allowing the medication and/or the rinsing solution to flow through the dispensing and infusion means.
Patent FR 2 306 711 describes an infusion device comprising at least two infusion containers suspended at different heights, whose tubes are connected for example using a Y-shaped connection piece, and a valve device with two inlets whose operation is linked to the difference in height between the infusion containers which causes a difference in height between the columns of liquid.
Documents WO 92/11881, U.S. Pat. No. 4,512,764, WO 95/09020, EP 0 790 064, U.S. Pat. No. 4,623,334 and WO 03/077974 describe infusion or injection systems comprising devices for rinsing the infusion line or injection system.
These devices do not provide a satisfactory solution to the problems of safety and effectiveness of the infusion systems:
The present invention is intended to improve the safety and effectiveness of infusion systems by virtue of a device for automatically rinsing the line and the bag after infusion, without the nurse's intervention.
The present invention relates to a bag for medical use for infusing medication by gravity, comprising at least two compartments, one containing medication in the form of a solution and the other(s) containing a rinsing solution, and compartment separation/communication means which allow the rinsing solution to enter the compartment containing the medication automatically only after infusion. The rinsing solution completes the infusion, rinsing the medication bag and the infusion line, thus eliminating the risk of contamination and the loss of residual medication in the bag and that contained in the infusion line.
The basic principle of the invention consists in using the vacuum created in the medication bag at the end of infusion owing to the water column height in the infusion line. This vacuum gradually increases at the end of infusion, as the bag becomes flattened through a “siphon” effect. This vacuum can reach around −100 mb.
The rinsing liquid, which is at atmospheric pressure, is drawn into the compartment containing the medication, which in turn is at a vacuum pressure with respect to atmospheric pressure.
The separation/communication means comprise a breakable device between the compartment containing the medication and the compartment (one of the compartments) containing the solution and a device for ensuring automatic communication between the compartment containing the medication and the compartment containing the solution or between the two compartments containing the solution.
The device for ensuring automatic communication between the compartments may be a communication channel positioned above the level of the liquid in said compartments when the bag is suspended vertically.
As a variant, the device for ensuring automatic communication between the compartments may be a pressure-threshold valve.
The compartment or compartments containing the rinsing solution may comprise a narrow area towards the top of the bag.
The attached drawings illustrate the present invention in more detail.
According to a first embodiment of the invention shown in
Compartments (1) and (2) are filled without the addition of air. Said compartments comprise means (8) and (6) for preventing the flow path of the liquid from being sealed up completely when the bag flattens. These means (8) and (6) may consist for example of a “roughening” of the surface of one of the faces of the bag or a thermoformed channel, which aid the flow.
According to a second embodiment of the invention shown in
Compartment (1) comprises means (8) for preventing the flow path of the liquid from being sealed up completely when the bag flattens. These means (8) facilitate the flow between the communication orifice between the two compartments and the access (4) to the infusion line (10).
According to a variant (not shown) of the bag of
The valve comprises two chambers (14) and (15) separated by an elastomer membrane (13). As shown in
As shown in
According to a third embodiment of the invention shown in
Compartments (2) and (2 a) are separated by a wall (20) leaving a passage (18) at the top of the bag which prevents the transfer of the contents from (2) into (2 a) and/or the contents from (2 a) into (2) if the bag is suspended vertically and if there is no difference in pressure between said compartments. Compartment (2 a) comprises an access (4) to the infusion line (10). The volume of compartment (2 a) is slightly greater than the volume of a standard infusion line (around 10 milliliters).
The following examples illustrate how the infusion bags of the invention are used.
After the infusion line has been established, the nurse breaks the breakable device (3) by mechanical intervention on the outside of the flexible bag, to place the compartments (1) and (2) in communication without causing transfer since the pressure inside the two compartments is identical. When compartment (1) is practically empty, its walls collapse. The pressure in compartment (1) then becomes negative with respect to the pressure in compartment (2), which flattens, causing the rinsing liquid to rise into the communication channel between the two compartments. The rising liquid then empties into compartment (1), and then into the infusion line, thus rinsing the medication out of compartment (1) and the line (10). The patient will thus receive all the medication and the nurse will handle an infusion line and a bag free of toxic liquid.
The method of example 1 is followed, except that it is the pressure-threshold valve that allows the rinsing solution to flow into compartment (1) when the pressure in this compartment becomes negative with respect to the pressure in compartment (2).
Once the bag has been connected up to the infusion line (10), the air-filled infusion line is in communication with compartment (2 a) which is full of rinsing solution. The nurse starts infusion as usual with the contents of compartment (2 a). After this operation, compartment (2 a) is almost empty.
The nurse connects the line to the patient, then breaks the breakable device (3). Compartment (1) is then in communication with compartment (2 a) and thus with the infusion line (10). The medication contained in (1) flows into compartment (2 a) until the heights of liquid in said compartments are equal.
When compartments (1) and (2 a) are almost empty, the walls collapse, causing the rinsing solution in compartment (2) to be sucked into compartment (2 a). After the levels between compartments (1) and (2 a) have equaled out, which rinses the bottom of the compartment, the rinsing solution flows into the perfusion line (10).
The description and figures illustrate various embodiments of the present invention. However, the invention is not limited to the embodiments described and shown but, on the contrary, encompasses all variants.
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|Clasificación de EE.UU.||604/410, 604/257, 206/222, 604/262, 206/219, 206/469, 604/210, 206/221, 604/87, 604/80, 604/408, 604/82, 383/210, 604/92, 604/409, 604/173, 604/416, 604/5.01|
|Clasificación internacional||A61J1/14, A61J1/00, A61B19/00, A61M5/14, A61J1/05|
|Clasificación cooperativa||A61J1/1487, A61M5/1409, A61J1/18, A61J1/1475, A61J1/10, A61J1/1462|
|Clasificación europea||A61J1/10, A61J1/18, A61J1/14H, A61J1/14P|