SECURE MEDICAMENT DISPENSING CABINET, METHOD AND SYSTEM

A medicament dispensing cabinet includes a frame, at least one controller, and a plurality of drawers each movably carried by the frame and each defining a plurality of dispensing cells. A plurality of dispensing devices is provided with each one carried by one of the dispensing cells. Each of the d...

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Hauptverfasser: GOODWORTH MATTHEW, JANKOWSKI STAN, BEALE MATTHEW STUART, BERGERON MICHAEL A, HOLMES ERIC LAMONT, SHOWS PAUL RANDALL, MORGAN STUART, PARKS ROBERT, KAINTZ RYAN
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Zusammenfassung:A medicament dispensing cabinet includes a frame, at least one controller, and a plurality of drawers each movably carried by the frame and each defining a plurality of dispensing cells. A plurality of dispensing devices is provided with each one carried by one of the dispensing cells. Each of the dispensing cells further comprises a motor for providing rotary motion to one of the removable dispensing devices in response to the controller, a sensor operating in conjunction with the controller for counting medicament dispensed from one of the removable dispensing devices, a chute for receiving medicament dispensed from one of the removable dispensing devices and a chute gate for controlling access to the chute. The cabinet may additionally comprise a chute gate release responsive to the controller for controlling the chute gate and a chute gate sensor connected to the controller and responsive to the position of the chute gate.