Patent ID: 11894149
Assignee: BAXTER CORPORATION ENGLEWOOD
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. An infusion apparatus comprising:
a pumping mechanism configured to control a flow of intravenous fluid through an administration set from a container to a patient;
a display;
an input device; and
a computer readable medium configured, when executed, to:
receive data corresponding to a configuration output via the input device, the data including (i) a first portion that comprises plain text values specifying a configuration protocol for preforming an infusion therapy, and (ii) a second portion that comprises an alphanumeric code that was generated using the first portion of the data,
generate, using an algorithm, a check code using the received first portion of the data,
compare the check code to the received second portion of the data,
when the check code corresponds to the second portion of the data, enable the pumping mechanism to administer the infusion therapy according to the specified configuration protocol, and
when the check code fails to correspond to the second portion of the data, cause the display to indicate the failure of the correspondence between the check code and the second portion of the data.