COMPOUNDING ASSEMBLY FOR NUTRITIONAL FLUID

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mixing assembly which transfers a number of nutritional fluids from individual source containers into a collection container while noninvasively sensing the type of fluid being transferred. SOLUTION: The mixing assembly 10 utilizes a transfer set 14 to establish fl...

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Hauptverfasser: MARTUCCI JAMES P, HITCHCOCK JAMES R, DI GIANFILIPPO ALEANDRO, LILLEGARD THOMAS R
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Zusammenfassung:PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mixing assembly which transfers a number of nutritional fluids from individual source containers into a collection container while noninvasively sensing the type of fluid being transferred. SOLUTION: The mixing assembly 10 utilizes a transfer set 14 to establish fluid communication between the source containers 16 and the collection container 18. A sensing assembly 200 is configured to noninvasively sense a number of the types of fluid 20 flowing through the transfer set 14 to help to prevent improper mixing. For other fluids 20 for which the sensing assembly 200 alone may not be able to distinguish with the desired accuracy, the mixing device 10 utilizes a method to approximate the flow rate of that fluid 20 with the flow rate also providing an indication of that type of fluid 20. By combining the output of the sensing assembly 200 with the flow rate determination, additional fluids 20 can be identified. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT