Patent ID: 8818821
Filing Date: 2014-08-26
Classification: G16H

Abstract:
1. A digital assistant appliance configured to assist and to monitor an operator as the operator manually prepares a liquid pharmaceutical composition to be administered to a patient using a medical instrument, said appliance comprising: a user-interface system configured to indicate, to the operator, operations to be performed by the operator to prepare the liquid pharmaceutical composition and to provide assistance preparation messages to the operator as the operator prepares the liquid pharmaceutical composition; a memory device configured to have stored thereon, for each active principle of the liquid pharmaceutical composition: one or more first sample images of vials that can contain said active principle, and/or one or more second sample images of syringes that can be used to transfer said active principle from the vials to the medical instrument; a scale positioned on a horizontal surface, the scale being configured to have positioned thereon, by the operator, a vial and/or a syringe; an artificial viewing system configured to acquire: a vial image of the vial positioned by the operator on said scale and/or a syringe image of the syringe positioned by the operator on said scale; and an electronic processing system configured to: