Patent ID: 8494879

Claim:
A medication management system for configuring a dose back calculation setting, the system comprising: a medication management unit having a processing unit and a storage medium coupled to the processing unit, the storage medium being non-transitory and containing programming code executed by the processing unit to: provide a master infuser setup of a drug library at the medication management unit; receive a default Dose-Back Calculation setting for the master infuser setup at a user interface of the medication management unit; update the drug library with the default Dose-Back Calculation setting; and transmit the updated drug library; and a programmable medical device for performing an infusion in electronic communication with the medication management unit, the medical device having a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory being non-transitory and containing programming code to: receive the updated drug library at the medical device; receive a drug selection input at a user interface of the medical device; determine the default Dose-Back Calculation setting from the updated drug library; and operate the medical device in accordance with the determined default Dose-Back Calculation setting, wherein the default Dose-Back Calculation setting controls when volumetric rate for the infusion cannot be entered at the medical device before dose rate for the infusion.