Patent ID: 8749356

Claim:
A cabinet for storing medical items, the cabinet having a depth and comprising: a plurality of drawer cavities, each cavity configured to receive a drawer, each cavity having a front opening through which the drawer is moved to a closed position within the cavity and through which each drawer is moved to an open position in which the drawer is at least partially outside of the cavity; an electrically conductive cage formed about a first cavity, the cage having a cage front located at the front opening of the cavity; a plurality of drawers, each of which is received by a respective cavity and which is movable to an open position and to a closed position, with a first drawer being received by the first cavity having the electrically conductive cage; a thermo-electric cooling (“TEC”) device configured to provide cooling for a single drawer, the TEC device mounted to at least one of: the first drawer so as to move with the drawer; and at a fixed position in relation to the first cavity; a second cavity adjacent the first cavity, the second cavity having no TEC device and being at ambient temperature; thermal insulation disposed between the first and second cavities, the thermal insulation located and configured to inhibit cooling provided by the TEC device of the first cavity from reaching a drawer that is located in the second cavity; and an RFID reader disposed within the first cavity and configured to read RFID tag data from an RFID tag located within the first drawer.