DE102011018540A1 - Medicament dosing device for clear provision of tablets for patient in e.g. hospital, has vessel with subdivisions forming compartments for periods and demand, and storage storing present surplus tablet portion arising during division - Google Patents

Abstract

The device has a flat, closable vessel with subdivisions forming compartments for determined periods and demand. A storage stores a present surplus tablet portion, which arises during necessary division. A small storage compartment (1) is undetachably integrated by manufacturing from cast iron. A large storage compartment is subdivided into sub-compartments. Liftable or tiltable inserts are provided in the sub-compartments. The device is made of white, non-transparent plastic. A flap lid (2) closes the device.

Description

Technical area

• health service

State of the art

The state of the art known to me for the clear provision of tablets from their individual packages consists in medication dispensers - flat, subdivided, closable containers. Through their subdivision they provide individual subjects for certain periods of time, eg. Morning, noon, evening and night. In addition to the time-related subjects, I still have a need-to-know. The tablets can be prepared for a day or a whole week.

The individual subjects are indelibly marked, z. B. on their inner floors or in a hinged lid on its inner deck surface, respectively above the subjects.

Besides the hinged lids, sliding covers are also known to me.

It is not possible to mix the tablets between the compartments.

The material known to me is plastic.

Lack of the state of the art

If you have to divide tablets, and you can not distribute the sub-doses on more subjects or z. For example, on an infirmary for other patients who are given the same thing, I can only see two other options for the surplus doses.

The first option is to return the divided tablets back into the packages. I see this as rather cluttered and unwieldy, but also - despite a certain stability - as dangerously unstable, when sub-doses fall out and z. B. advised in children's hands or there is a mix-up in a drug collection.

Where multiple patients are treated in parallel, this instability leads to the partially applied practice of discarding undistributable split tablets (hazardous waste). The potential risk to patients of confounding drugs is considered to be more serious than the cost of discarded partial doses.

The second possibility is to use several, individual, lockable containers with labeling. This is safer and clearer, it seems to me at first glance, for certain situations, but still as unwieldy, time-consuming and space-consuming. For example, matching flat and sealable vessels are not necessarily available. If they are stowed on top of each other, they must first be spread out to be accessible. This can be bulky in many drugs and for the allocation of a partial dose must be sought each time from a large amount of vessels the right one.

The distribution to other patients may be impractical, when there is a shortage of space, high time pressure, and / or the work processes are organized so that one concentrates on one patient only when setting up the medication.

problem

The problems underlying my invention are to make the storage and handling of the initially superfluous tablet content that arises at a necessary division (eg 1/2 tablet) safer, clearer, more manageable, time and space-saving, and indeed for different Situations in the private sphere and in facilities where several people are provided in parallel. In addition, z. T. the already existing - produced and purchased - drug dispensers can be shared.

solution

These problems I have solved by the features listed in the claims, but could not always bring all the problems "under one hat".

drawings

All drawings are only simplified, schematic representations for the essential understanding.

Embodiment 1

• For tablets that are easy to differentiate and come into contact with each other.
• A small, simple storage compartment.
• Inextricably integrated into the existing technology by production from a casting.
• Indelibly marked,

1 , M.1: 1, floor plan, opened. The drug dispenser of the embodiment 1 also consists of white, non-transparent plastic. He is for one day, divided into 6 subjects: the Storage compartment ( 1 ) and the subjects for morning, noon, evening, night and on-demand medication.

The doser is closed with a hinged lid ( 2 ). The " 2 "In the drawing indicates only where the cover opens.

All subjects are rectangular and the same size. Strung together, they form an elongated, rectangular basic shape. The outer and partition walls close at a height. The cover part of the hinged lid rests on the walls. Thus, the separate tablets can not mix.

All compartments are marked on their inner floors, with abbreviations, which allows for a simple look in the open state. The marking is in the upper area of the floors. So you have to tilt the dosing only lightly holding the lid when a tablet obscured the label.

The lid has short side walls that close around it by a step on the outsides of the outer walls of the base. A recess on the lower part allows easy opening of the lid, which is held firmly in the closed state by a latching mechanism on the lower part.

2 When fully opened, the hinged lid ( 2 ) an obtuse angle to the heavier base. It keeps it open and does not hinder the placement and removal of the tablets.

Embodiment 2

• For tablets that are difficult to distinguish from each other and / or may not come into contact with each other.
• A large, compartmentalized storage compartment.
• Also inextricably integrated into the existing technology by manufacturing a cast.
• Variable identifiable.

3 , M.1: 1, floor plan, opened.

In addition, this embodiment differs from the first one as follows.

The larger and divided storage compartment ( 3 ) has a different position. It is now as big as all the remaining 5 compartments together and is rectangularly elongated and unmarked like a headline across the other compartments. All this together forms a rectangle again, but not so long. The storage compartment ( 3 ) is in accordance with the other subjects in 5 unmarked sub-fan ( 4 ) - ( 8th ).

All new walls are closed at the same height as the others, so that no unwanted mixing can occur in this example.

4 Cross-section seen from the side, in the open state through the lower compartment ( 8th ) with a preceding subject ( 9 ). Since the drugs are difficult to distinguish from each other, they need in their respective sub-compartment a variable labeling, so that they can be changed in a change of medication.

This is achieved by a small labeled piece of paper ( 10 ) in each sub-compartment, which, apart from a small game in length and width, is in register with the Unterfachinnengrundriß.

In order to protect this label and its inscription and to delineate both against the medication, there is a small, loose, transparent second base in each sub-compartment on the note ( 11 ) as a second use. He is also made of plastic, and fit with the note.

The small game Both to Unterfach is used to lift out with the help of a fingernail or a similar tool, but also the tipping when the situation allows - so no tablets are prepared and the other sub-insets should also fall out.

A more stable alternative to paper is cardboard. On both materials a pencil marking can be changed by erasing.

Embodiment 3

• Second floor with vertical side wall.

5 View of a marked sub tray from above.

6 Cross section through a lower compartment with front view.

This embodiment differs from the second only by the plastic insert. At the small second floor of the previous example is at one of the longer sides a vertical side wall ( 12 ) is added, so that an angular use is created, which can be easily removed by pulling out. This is supported by a small lead ( 13 ) on the inside of the side wall, which can also be omitted.

The entire insert is transparent. In another embodiment, the side wall may also be opaque.

Also this use needs the game to the bottom.

In this embodiment, a piece of paper under the insert is again for identification. The side wall closes with the other walls at a height. It is also conceivable that it completes something under the other walls, which would also allow a stack of notes or cards as a stock, which is also for the Ausführungsbsp. 2 is conceivable.

Embodiment 4

To supplement existing dispensers with a storage compartment, you can produce the storage compartments described in the previous examples, with or without subdivision and the corresponding variants of inserts described, each as an independent, lockable units and sell and use as a supplement. The storage compartment becomes the storage unit.

Embodiment 5

To connect existing drug dispenser without a storage compartment with a storage unit, you can inextricably add to the individual storage unit a frame in the exact fit and stable of the existing dispenser, again releasably inserted. The covers should not interfere with the function. Instead of a frame, a firmly attached vessel shape can be useful. This can, not necessarily fit, also be used universally for various existing dispensers.

Place for names outside on the various storage units and the existing dosing is another embodiment to avoid confusion.

advantages

For the time being, surplus, divided tablets can, depending on the initial situation, be given a more manageable, clearer and safer storage location, which can also save time and in certain situations space.

The versions as separate or connectable additions can make use of existing resources and save resources as well as costs.

Claims (5)

Drug dispenser for the clear provision of tablets with the following features: 1 a flat, closable vessel, 2 with a fan forming subdivision for certain periods of time and possibly for need, 3 the individual compartments are marked, 4 it is not possible to mix the tablets between the compartments marked by 5 a storage of at least one superfluous tablet portion, which arises at a necessary division. Drug dispenser according to the first claim characterized by 6 an additional, small, simple storage compartment ( 1 ) with the following characteristics: 6.1 permanently integrated into the existing technology, by manufacture as a casting, 6.2 for tablets which are easily distinguishable from each other and may come into contact, 6.3 indelibly marked Medicament doser according to the first claim characterized by 7 a large, in sub-compartments (for example ( 4 ) - ( 8th )) divided storage compartment ( 3 ) with the following characteristics: 7.1 permanently integrated into the existing technology, by manufacture as a casting, 7.2 for tablets which are difficult to differentiate from each other and / or which are not allowed to come into contact with each other, 7.3 variably identifiable by the following, removable or tiltable inserts in Each sub-subject, which has in common that they are - except for a small game in length and width - in register with the Unterfachinnengrundriß: 7.3.1 a labeled piece of paper ( 10 ), alone or on a stack of paper slips 7.3.2 or a labeled cardboard card, alone or on a stack of cardboard cards; 7.3.3 a transparent second floor ( 11 ) lying on the inserts just mentioned in items 7.3.1 and 7.3.2, or 7.3.4 an angled insert created by attaching to the transparent second base ( 11 ) - on one of its longer sides - a vertical side wall ( 12 ). 7.3.4.1 The angled insert is also based on the inserts specified in items 7.3.1 and 7.3.2. 7.3.4.2 optionally with or without a small lead ( 13 ) inside on the vertical side wall ( 12 ) 7.3.4.3 The vertical side wall ( 12 ) completes with the other walls at one level or slightly below the other walls. Medicament doser according to the first claim characterized by 8 that the storage compartments described in the 2nd and 3rd claim can each consist of independent, lockable storage units to supplement existing drug dispensers with the storage Drug dispenser according to the 1st and 4th claim marked by 9 an independent, lockable storage unit with a permanently attached frame or a permanently attached vessel shape, in or in which an existing drug dispenser is releasably inserted. Do not obstruct the function of the lid. 9.1 The existing drug dispenser is inserted in register and stable in the frame. 9.2 The vessel shape is not necessarily in registration with the existing drug dispenser.

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