Patent ID: 8349347
Filing Date: 2013-01-08
Classification: A61B,A61J,A61M

Abstract:
1. A medication administration system, comprising: a first medical device, a second medical device and a third medical device which are ingested within a living body, and a unit external to the living body which is disposed outside the living body, wherein a) the first medical device comprises: a marking device which makes markings on a body tissue of the living body; and an acquisition device which acquires in-vivo information while establishing a correspondence with the positions of the markings; b) the second medical device comprises: a drug retention section which retains a drug for administration within the living body; a release device which releases the drug retained in the drug retention section; a marking detection device which detects markings made by a marking device; and a release control device which causes the release device to operate, when the marking detection device has detected the marking; c) the third medical device comprises: a detection device which detects the markings made by the marking device; the long time period marking device which makes the long time period marking which can remain in the living body, last for a long time period within the living body than even if the marking is destroyed by being metabolized; a third medical device transmission device which transmits information regarding the markings which have been detected by the detection device towards the unit external to the living body; a third medical device reception device which receives a control signal for causing the long time period marking device to operate; and a long time period marking control device which causes the long time period marking device to operate, when the control signal has been received by the third medical device reception device; and d) the unit external to the living body comprises: a reception device external to the living body which receives the information regarding the markings which has been transmitted from the third medical device transmission device; a medication determination device which determines whether or not to administer medication for a site which is indicated in the in-vivo information based upon the in-vivo information which has been acquired by the acquisition device; a specification device which specifies a marking which indicates a site to administer medication from among the markings which have been made within the living body based on the determination by the medication determination device; a decision device for deciding whether or not a marking which has been detected by the detection device is the marking which has been specified by the specification device based on the information regarding the markings which have been received by the reception device external to the living body; and a transmission device external to the living body which transmits the control signal towards the third medical device reception device, when the decision device has decided that the marking which has been detected by the detection device is the marking which has been specified by the specification device.