WO1991001710A1 - Distributeur de liquide etalonne en fonction du poids du corps - Google Patents

Distributeur de liquide etalonne en fonction du poids du corps Download PDF

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WO1991001710A1
WO1991001710A1 PCT/US1989/003374 US8903374W WO9101710A1 WO 1991001710 A1 WO1991001710 A1 WO 1991001710A1 US 8903374 W US8903374 W US 8903374W WO 9101710 A1 WO9101710 A1 WO 9101710A1
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Jack R. Grogan, Jr.
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61J—CONTAINERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MEDICAL OR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES; DEVICES OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BRINGING PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INTO PARTICULAR PHYSICAL OR ADMINISTERING FORMS; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; BABY COMFORTERS; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE
    • A61J1/00—Containers specially adapted for medical or pharmaceutical purposes
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01L—CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL LABORATORY APPARATUS FOR GENERAL USE
    • B01L3/00—Containers or dishes for laboratory use, e.g. laboratory glassware; Droppers
    • B01L3/02—Burettes; Pipettes
    • B01L3/0282—Burettes; Pipettes mounted within a receptacle
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01F—MEASURING VOLUME, VOLUME FLOW, MASS FLOW OR LIQUID LEVEL; METERING BY VOLUME
    • G01F19/00—Calibrated capacity measures for fluids or fluent solid material, e.g. measuring cups
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01F—MEASURING VOLUME, VOLUME FLOW, MASS FLOW OR LIQUID LEVEL; METERING BY VOLUME
    • G01F19/00—Calibrated capacity measures for fluids or fluent solid material, e.g. measuring cups
    • G01F19/002—Measuring spoons or scoops

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  • This invention relates to dispensers for liquids, and more specifically to medicine droppers.
  • Prior disclosures were made under the Disclosure Document Program of the United States Patent and Trademark Office under document numbers 216412 and 214780.
  • Other medicines in which appropriate dosages may depend on body weight include the following: vitamins, minerals, antibiotics, cough and cold preparations, pain relievers, sedatives, tranquilizers, stimulants, antihistamines, decongestants, anaesthetics, allergens, antiasthma and bronchial dilators, steroids, hormones, antiparasitics, biologicals (such as vaccines and serums), cardiovascular preparations, and diuretics.
  • veterinary medicines sedatives and heartworm medicines for example
  • dental medicines especially sedatives, such as chloral hydrate also would benefit from dosages more accurately administered in accordance with body -weight.
  • body weight some other characteristic of the patient may be utilized.
  • medications where precision is not quite as important as convenience such as childrens' pain relievers
  • childrens' ages in 'months might be a more convenient and easily understood measure than body weight.
  • patent 4,018,223 issued to * Ethington, which teaches an elongated plastic member having a predetermined calibration scale for use with syringes. Accordingly, it is an object of this invention to provide an easy and accurate device and method to administer a correct amount of liquid medicine. It is a further object of this invention to reduce the probability of, and to limit the amount of, any accidental overdoses of a liquid medicine.
  • a device comprising a reservoir for holding an amount of liquid to be dispensed and a measuring means attached to the reservoir for measuring the amount of liquid to be dispensed, in which the measuring means is calibrated in accordance with desirable doses of the liquid for varying values of. a characteristic of the person.
  • the preferred embodiment of this invention is a medicine dropper that is calibrated by the body weight of the patient.
  • the scale could be marked off in units of pounds or kilograms, or both.
  • some other calibration characteristic might be appropriate, such as age, if precision in measurement is not as important as convenience.
  • Figure 1 is a side perspective view of a medicine dropper in accordance with this invention.
  • Figure 2 is a drawing of a syringe in accordance with this invention.
  • Figure 3 is a drawing of a hollow cylinder in accordance with this invention.
  • Figure 4 is a drawing of a hollow cylinder having an attached spoon in accordance with this invention.
  • FIGS. 5A, 5B and 5C are drawings of a set of cups in accordance with this invention.
  • Figures 6A, 6B and 6C are drawings of a set of spoons in accordance with this invention. Best Mode for Carrying Out the Invention.
  • the dropper of this invention was developed to -*- fulfill a need to control doses of fluoride for infants.
  • a medicine dropper 1 which includes a tube 2, a scale 3, an opening 4, a flexible bulb 5, and a bottle cap 6.
  • the bottle cap 6 is designed to be secured to a bottle (not shown) .
  • the bottle contains a supply of a fluoride medi ⁇ rati ⁇ ft' or a vitamin-mineral-fluoride combination.
  • the scaie 3 is calibrated in accordance with the body weight of the patient, and can be marked in pounds, kilograms ⁇ / or ther units of weight. In a prescription medicine, the dosage in terms of body weight would be included on the prescription label (not shown) and/or the bottle label (not shown) .
  • the parent would fill the tube 2 up* with -the vitamin-mineral-fluoride combination until the the body weight of the child is reached on the scale 3.
  • the * scale 3 shown in figure 1 shows, for example; a range of body weights from 7.5 to 15 pounds. If the child weighed 10 pounds, then the dropper would be filled to the "10" mark on the scale 3. The child would then be given the measured vitamin-mineral-fluoride combination.
  • This dose administration device allows each child to be given a dose exactly according to his or her weight.
  • the scale 3 has a built in safety feature.
  • the range of the scale 3 can be set so that the maximum dose shown would be insufficient to cause a dangerous overdose in an infant. In this case, with infant fluoride, the " margin of safety is about two times the correct dose. The smallest child using this dropper 1 probably would be a seven and ' a half pound child. The maximum dose on the scale 3 would be a dose for a fifteen pound child, which would not have any adverse consequences if it were given to a seven and a half pound child.
  • the range of scale 3 would be limited by this safety feature, and therefore to cover all patients, preferably there would be many droppers, each with a scale that covered a range of body weights where the dose for the highest body weight would be insufficient to cause a dangerous overdose for the lowest body weight.
  • any of the three variables could be changed. For example, to reduce the dose per weight by half: (1) the concentration of fluoride could be halved, for example, from .25 mg F/l ml to .125 mg F/l ml, (2) the capacity of the dropper could be halved, so that a full dropper dispensed, for example, .5 ml instead of 1 ml, or (3) the body weight marks could be doubled, for example, replacing a 10 pound mark with a 20 pound mark.
  • Designing the safety feature to limit accidental overdoses is achieved by first expressing the margin of safety as a multiple of the proper dose. The smallest body weight for the desired scale should then be multiplied by the margin of safety. The product would be the largest dose that could be safely marked as the largest body weight on the scale 3. This would limit the overdose potential to the margin of safety or less. For 8 example, if the desired margin of safety is twice the proper dose and the lowest desired body weight for the scale 3 is 7.5 pounds, 7.5 pounds multiplied by 2 is 15 pounds, therefore the largest body weight should be 15 pounds.
  • a further advantage of calibration by body weight is that there is less computation or use of dosage tables and therefore less opportunity for error.
  • This invention provides a way to dispense liquid medicines much more accurately than by volume. It also provides a way to incorporate a safety margin into a liquid dispenser 'to- avoid large overdoses. It further provides a way to reduce the opportunity for error that arises from using ⁇ dosage tables.
  • the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and arrange *m*ent of parts illustrated in the accompanying drawings, because the invention is capable of other embodiments,,- , and of being practiced or carried out in various ways.
  • the invention could be implemented using an oral syringe (Fig. 2), which would be particularly suitable for certain medicines, such as those for treating pinworms.
  • the invention could be implemented using a graduated cylinder (with or without*an attached spoon: Figs. 3 and 4), which would * be particularly suitable for administering antibiotics.
  • the invention could be implemented using a set of measuring cups (Figs. 5A, 5B and 5C) or measuring spoons (Figs.

Abstract

L'invention cherche à résoudre le problème de l'administration de quantités appropriées de médicaments liquides. De nombreux médicaments devraient être administrés en fonction du poids du corps, mais ils sont habituellement administrés en volume. L'invention cherche également à procurer une marge de sécurité destinée à éviter les doses excessives. L'usage principal de l'invention à trait à des médicaments à administrer par les consommateurs bien qu'elle peut être utilisée par toutes les autres personnes devant administrer des médicaments. Le mode de réalisation préféré de l'invention est un compte-goutte (1) de médicament comportant un tube (2) ainsi qu'une échelle (3) graduée en fonction du poids du corps.
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EP0510481A2 (fr) * 1991-04-24 1992-10-28 Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft Pipettes pour dosage
FR2690076A1 (fr) * 1992-02-03 1993-10-22 Grogan Jack Compte-gouttes pharmaceutique à dose/poids.
EP0983761A2 (fr) * 1998-09-01 2000-03-08 James B. Broselow Système universel pour dosage de médicaments
WO2001060312A1 (fr) * 2000-02-16 2001-08-23 Kaplan, Brian Reference de calcul de posologie d'elixir en fonction du poids
WO2008003955A2 (fr) * 2006-07-05 2008-01-10 Theresia Marlys Benker Récipient de mesure
GB2461013A (en) * 2007-12-18 2009-12-23 Asrar Rashid Vessel with gradations marked thereon relating to a physical characteristic of a patient
WO2020206450A1 (fr) * 2019-04-05 2020-10-08 Certa Dose, Inc. Système de distribution de médicament ayant des indicateurs de dosage en marche d'escalier

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GB364528A (en) * 1930-06-24 1931-12-24 Henry Ewart Wadsworth Improvements in plugs or stoppers for bottles and other vessels
FR791042A (fr) * 1935-06-08 1935-12-02 Centrale De Verreries S A Soc Cuiller graduée
FR2083725A5 (en) * 1970-03-16 1971-12-17 Erasme Packaging pharmaceuticals
US4192360A (en) * 1978-05-19 1980-03-11 Rodriquez Oswaldo J Spoon dropper
EP0220860A2 (fr) * 1985-10-21 1987-05-06 James B. Broselow Ruban de mesure destiné à la détermination immédiate de grandeurs physiologiques et de paramètres de traitement physique
EP0343874A1 (fr) * 1988-05-23 1989-11-29 James B. Broselow Appareil thérapeutique

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US1533753A (en) * 1923-02-26 1925-04-14 Earl L Munch Medicine dropper
GB364528A (en) * 1930-06-24 1931-12-24 Henry Ewart Wadsworth Improvements in plugs or stoppers for bottles and other vessels
FR791042A (fr) * 1935-06-08 1935-12-02 Centrale De Verreries S A Soc Cuiller graduée
FR2083725A5 (en) * 1970-03-16 1971-12-17 Erasme Packaging pharmaceuticals
US4192360A (en) * 1978-05-19 1980-03-11 Rodriquez Oswaldo J Spoon dropper
EP0220860A2 (fr) * 1985-10-21 1987-05-06 James B. Broselow Ruban de mesure destiné à la détermination immédiate de grandeurs physiologiques et de paramètres de traitement physique
EP0343874A1 (fr) * 1988-05-23 1989-11-29 James B. Broselow Appareil thérapeutique

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EP0510481A3 (en) * 1991-04-24 1993-02-03 Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft Pipettes for dosing
EP0510481A2 (fr) * 1991-04-24 1992-10-28 Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft Pipettes pour dosage
FR2690076A1 (fr) * 1992-02-03 1993-10-22 Grogan Jack Compte-gouttes pharmaceutique à dose/poids.
EP0983761A2 (fr) * 1998-09-01 2000-03-08 James B. Broselow Système universel pour dosage de médicaments
EP0983761A3 (fr) * 1998-09-01 2000-05-03 James B. Broselow Système universel pour dosage de médicaments
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WO2001060312A1 (fr) * 2000-02-16 2001-08-23 Kaplan, Brian Reference de calcul de posologie d'elixir en fonction du poids
WO2008003955A2 (fr) * 2006-07-05 2008-01-10 Theresia Marlys Benker Récipient de mesure
WO2008003955A3 (fr) * 2006-07-05 2008-02-21 Theresia Marlys Benker Récipient de mesure
GB2451997A (en) * 2006-07-05 2009-02-18 Theresia Marlys Benker Measuring Container
GB2461013A (en) * 2007-12-18 2009-12-23 Asrar Rashid Vessel with gradations marked thereon relating to a physical characteristic of a patient
WO2020206450A1 (fr) * 2019-04-05 2020-10-08 Certa Dose, Inc. Système de distribution de médicament ayant des indicateurs de dosage en marche d'escalier
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