Patent ID: 7575567

Claim:
A multiple medication IV pump, comprising: a housing having an open interior; a medication mixing chamber having a hollow interior, the chamber being disposed within said housing; a spiking unit extending from the mixing chamber, the spiking unit being in fluid communication with the hollow interior of the chamber; a motorized rotating carousel disposed within said housing, the carousel having a central hub and a plurality of elongated arm assemblies extending outwardly from the hub, each of the arm assemblies having a support member, a movable track surrounding the perimeter of the support member, and a plurality of vial holders disposed along the movable track and movable about the perimeter of said support member; a microcomputer-based control circuit in electrical connection with the carousel and with the arm assemblies, the control circuit having a storage memory; and computer readable program code stored within said memory, wherein execution of the program code operates the rotation of the carousel and the movement of the plurality of arm assemblies to bring a medication vial held in a selected one of said vial holders into fluid communication with the spiking unit.