SBIR Phase I: A radical cost reduction in medical infusion systems

这个小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目将展示流量测量技术在低成本闭环输液泵开发中的适用性。尽管业界对流量测量技术进行了数十年的研究，但今天？输液系统完全开环运行，无法测量其输送的流量，这一缺点损害了泵的安全性并增加了成本。本SBIR的目的是通过证明其在几种药物存在下的可靠性来证明流量传感器用于药物输送的可行性。该计划将提供的数据显示，该行业？满足S对流量传感器精度和可靠性的要求，可应用于下一代闭环给药系统。该项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是释放新一代低成本，高精度的泵。这项技术将使一次性泵的成本模型能够提供医院级的输液精度，使输液从医院转移到家庭环境。流量测量将进一步使这些输液能够由护士远程监控，并将使输液治疗结果的趋势能够通过收集数据来确定，这是目前根本无法获得的。该技术将大大降低与医疗输液相关的成本，减少住院时间，减少设备和资本成本，通过自动化数据收集减少专门用于输液的护士工作时间，并改善结果。流量监测将为医疗输液创造一种新的护理标准，未来的输液将始终使用这种完整的安全和数据收集技术进行。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will demonstrate the applicability of a flow measurement technology to the development of a low-cost, closed loop infusion pump. Despite decades of industry research into flow measurement technology, today?s infusion systems run entirely open loop, with no capability to measure the flow they deliver, and this shortcoming compromises pump safety and increases costs. The objective of this SBIR is to demonstrate the feasibility of a flow sensor for drug delivery by demonstrating its reliability in the presence of several medications. The program will provide data to show that the industry?s requirements for the accuracy and reliability of a flow sensor is met , and can be applied to next generation closed loop drug delivery systems. The broader impact/commercial potential of this project is the release of a new generation of low-cost, high accuracy pumps. This technology will make it possible to delivery hospital-level infusion accuracy with the cost model of a disposable pump, enabling infusions to move from the hospital to the home setting. Flow measurement will further enable these infusions to be monitored remotely by nurses, and will enable trends in infusion therapy outcomes to be identified by collecting data which is simply not available today. The technology will result in a substantial reduction in the costs associated with medical infusion by reducing hospital stays, reducing equipment and capital costs, reducing nurse hours dedicated to infusion by automating data collection, and improving outcomes. Flow monitoring will create a new standard of care for medical infusion, and in the future infusions will always be performed with this integral safety and data collection technology.