Patent ID: 6468242
Filing Date: 2002-10-22
Classification: A61M,G16H

Abstract:
A medical apparatus wit patient data recording for monitoring the patient, the medical apparatus comprising:a housing; a microprocessor disposed in said housing; a input device coupled to said microprocessor; a non-volatile memory coupled to said microprocessor; a plurality of questions stored within the nonvolatile memory to be answered by the patient, said questions requesting information from the patient that is not associated with control parameters of the medical apparatus; an electronic device coupled to said microprocessor for presenting at least one of said plurality of questions to the patient; and, a computer program stored within the memory that controls operation of the medical apparatus; wherein the microprocessor is responsive to the computer program to present at least one of the plurality of questions via the electronic device, and to store in the non-volatile memory an answer to the question input through the input device to create a patient data record; wherein the medical apparatus infuses liquid into a patient over an infusion period beginning with an initial infusion and ending with a final infusion, and wherein the medical apparatus delivers a plurality of infusions of the liquid during the infusion period beginning with the initial infusion and ending with the final infusion, each of the infusions made at a time and a flow rate.