Patent ID: 8182744

Claim:
A system to automate medical compounding, the system comprising: a compounding chamber; an air handling system arranged to provide air flow through the compounding chamber, the air handling system being arranged to produce a substantially uniform airflow from a ceiling of the compounding chamber toward a floor of the compounding chamber to inhibit contamination of medical containers; an automated system to transport medical containers amongst a plurality of positions within the chamber; a recognition system to identify medical containers using one or more verification operations the recognition system identifying a first medical container as a first form of medical container and a second medical container as a second form of medical container, wherein the first form and the second form differ in at least one of size, shape and type; a compounding system disposed in the chamber to transfer medicaments between medical containers; and a sanitization system to substantially reduce bioactivity on at least a first portion of a first fluid transfer port of the first form of medical container and a second portion of a second fluid transfer port of the second form of medical container, the sanitization system comprising: a first radiation source, and an actuator to bring at least the first portion of the first fluid transfer port into optical communication with the first radiation source; and a controller to determine a sanitizing profile corresponding to a third fluid transfer port to be sanitized, wherein the third fluid transfer port is part of a third medical container, the third medical container having a third form corresponding to one of the first form and the second form, the sanitizing profile is based in part on at least one of a size, a type or a shape of the third medical container, and the sanitizing profile includes at least one of a waveform, and amplitude, a time, and intensity, and a pulse repetition characteristic; wherein the controller changes a configuration of the sanitization system according to the sanitizing profile.