Patent ID: 8182445

Claim:
An infusion device comprising a pump that delivers an infusate to a human or animal subject and a controller programmed to: (i) control a delivery of the infusate in accordance with an infusion profile stored in a storage medium and (ii) monitor whether the patient is suffering an adverse reaction, the adverse reaction stored in a substance reference library in the storage medium in association with the infusate, said infusion profile comprising: a. a total volume or total amount of infusate to be infused; b. at least three infusion steps, each infusion step having an infusion rate and a duration, wherein the total volume or amount of infusate is infused over the at least three infusion steps; and c. a constant rate of change between the infusion rate between each of the infusion steps, wherein the constant rate of change has a slope between zero and ninety degrees relative to a horizontal time axis.