Patent ID: 8409133

Claim:
An apparatus to control administration of a drug to the body of a patient, the apparatus comprising: a drug infusion device configured to deliver the drug at a predetermined location on the body of the patient; at least one sensor disposed in the drug infusion device and configured to measure a property related to the patient, wherein the property is a combination of a physiological property related to the patient, a biochemical property related to the patient, including a drug level in the blood of the patient and/or a rate of change of drug level in the blood of the patient, an environmental property related to the patient, including an ambient temperature, and a drug-related property, including quality of the drug being administered; a controller disposed in the drug infusion device and configured to receive from the at least one sensor data representative of the measured property and further configured to determine a drug delivery rate based on the received data; and the drug delivery device is further configured to deliver the drug to the body of the patient based on the determined drug delivery rate.