US 12,168,112 B2
Systems and methods for monitoring hygiene practices associated with powered contrast injections
Corey Kemper, Pittsburgh, PA (US); John Volkar, Valencia, PA (US); Christopher Lazzara, Cranberry Township, PA (US); and Matthias Burg, Berlin (DE)
Assigned to BAYER HEALTHCARE LLC, Whippany, NJ (US)
Appl. No. 17/044,192
Filed by BAYER HEALTHCARE LLC, Whippany, NJ (US)
PCT Filed Apr. 9, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/026659
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 30, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/199885, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 17, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/655,374, filed on Apr. 10, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0046240 A1, Feb. 18, 2021
Int. Cl. A61M 5/00 (2006.01); G16H 20/17 (2018.01)
CPC A61M 5/007 (2013.01) [G16H 20/17 (2018.01); A61M 2205/273 (2013.01); A61M 2205/583 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A fluid injector system for use in administering to a patient at least one fluid in an injection protocol in connection with a diagnostic imaging procedure, the fluid injector system including at least one display, the fluid injector system comprising:
a control device operably associated with at least one drive component for use in pressurizing the at least one fluid through at least one disposable component into a patient; and
the control device including at least one processor programmed or configured to enable programming of an injection protocol comprising one or more injections, each of the injections comprising one or more phases according to which the at least one drive component pressurizes the least one fluid through the at least one disposable component into the patient so as to effect enhancement of at least one region of interest thereof over a scan duration of the diagnostic imaging procedure;
wherein the control device is further programmed or configured to:
determine, for each of the injection protocols performed by the fluid injector system, a component status for the at least one disposable component wherein the component status indicates whether use of the at least one disposable component was compliant with instructions for use applicable to the at least one disposable component; and
enable the at least one display to display a compliance report, the compliance report comprising one or more visual indicators providing visual feedback about compliance with the instructions for use based on the component status determined for each of the injection protocols performed using the fluid injector system; and
wherein the control device is further programmed or configured to at least one of:
(a) determine (i) an occurrence time for each of the injection protocols and (ii) for each of the injection protocols, an installation time for the at least one disposable component used for the injection protocol; and
(b) for each of the injection protocols performed by the fluid injector system, associate the component status determined for the at least one disposable component with a time interval of a plurality of time intervals;
wherein, for each of the injection protocols, the determination of the component status is based on a comparison between the installation time for the at least one disposable component and the occurrence time for the injection protocol.