JPH09255139A - Injection matching device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform a job for matchability between both types of automatically dispensable chemicals and those being undispensable in an efficient manner by controlling a tray stocker so as to deliver a tray, which receives a signal out of a reading means and corresponds to bucket identification, to a tray mounting part. SOLUTION: When two inlet conveyors 37 and 38 receive each individual tray 9 from a tray belt conveyor, a delivery conveyor carries out it on an aligning conveyor. In addition, when the specified number of trays 9 at each patient are arranged in a line on the tray aligning conveyor, a corresponding rack 33 moves to an opposed position, and at a time when the tray aligning conveyor and this rack 33 are accorded with each other, the tray 9 on the tray aligning conveyor is pressed by a pusher 36, mounting it on the rack 33. With this, matchingness between both types of automatically dispensable chemicals and those being undispensable is efficiently carried out, and thereby a burden reduction in time of both matching and monitoring operations is expendited and, a possible mistake is preventable from occurring.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an injectable drug aligning device, and more particularly, to an injectable drug aligning device for aligning an injectable drug container and an ampoule tray, which cannot be automatically dispensed, in a bucket by aligning each patient. It is about.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in order to match injectable drugs to be administered to hospitalized patients in hospitals, a pharmacist or the like looks at a doctor's injection prescription and manually prepares injectable drugs for each patient in a box. It is a common method to put this box in each ward and distribute it to each ward. However, such a method has a problem in that it is necessary to prepare necessary injection medicines without error and the burden on the nurses is too large.

Therefore, in order to solve such problems, various devices for automating the dispensing work have been proposed and put into practical use. For example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 7-2653
In the drug dispensing machine disclosed in Japanese Patent Publication No. 87, the injection drug in the shape of an ampoule or the like is dispensed into a predetermined storage chamber of the tray so as to be aligned and stored, and the bar code of the tray is read to read the tray. It is designed to print the prescription that is the basis of the injection drug stored in the.

[0004]

However, in the case of the above-mentioned injectable drug, the ampoule, the vial, etc. can be handled mechanically and can be automatically aligned, but other infusion bottles are possible. Alternatively, injectables such as bags have different sizes or shapes, and since there are many types of agents, they are difficult to mechanize and must be manually adjusted. From this, the work load is inevitable when matching the types of drugs that can be automatically dispensed, such as ampoules, and the types of drugs that cannot be automatically dispensed, such as infusion bottles or bags. There is a problem that there is an alignment error in. Incidentally, the above-mentioned publication only discloses a device for mainly matching the drug types that can be automatically dispensed,
A technique for efficiently matching these drug types with drug types that cannot be automatically dispensed is not disclosed.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and efficiently performs matching between a drug type capable of automatic dispensing and a drug type not capable of automatic dispensing, and at the time of this matching, It is an object of the present invention to provide an injection drug matching device capable of reducing the burden at the time of inspection and preventing the occurrence of errors.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, in the injection medicine aligning device according to the present invention, an injection medicine container that cannot be automatically dispensed and an ampoule tray are adjusted for each patient. An injection medicine matching device for storing in a bucket, comprising: (a) a tray stocker for storing an ampoule tray for each patient, and a tray placing part for placing a tray discharged from the tray stocker. And a bucket mounting section for mounting a bucket in which the injectable drug container is stored, (b) a reading unit for reading a bucket ID stored in the bucket mounted on the bucket mounting section And (c) a tray for controlling the tray stocker so as to receive the signal from the reading means and dispense the tray corresponding to the bucket ID to the tray placing section. It is characterized in further comprising a stocker controller.

In the injection medicine matching device according to the present invention,
When the bucket in which the required injectable drug container that cannot be automatically dispensed is stored in advance on the bucket mounting portion of the alignment table, the bucket ID stored in the mounted bucket is read by the reading means, In response to the signal from the reading means, the tray corresponding to the bucket ID is delivered from the tray stocker to the tray placing section. In this way, the operator stores the dispensed trays in the bucket, so that it is easy to match the agent types stored in the trays that can be automatically dispensed with the infusion containers that cannot be dispensed automatically. Can be done. Further, by performing this matching while confirming the injection prescription data of the current bucket, for example, on the display of the terminal screen, it is possible to perform the auditing work together with this matching.

It is preferable that the tray stocker is supplied with required trays from an injection medicine dispenser via a tray transport conveyor. In this case, when the tray is dispensed from the injection dispenser, the tray ID is written to the tray according to a command from the ampoule dispense controller, and the tray ID is read when the tray is stored in the tray stocker. It is preferable that the read data be transmitted to the tray stocker controller so that the tray is stored in a predetermined shelf of the tray stocker. In this way, the tray for each patient can be reliably stocked on the shelf of the tray stocker, and the trays on this shelf can be dispensed to the tray placing section without error during alignment.

In the present invention, an injection table for accommodating the injection drug container is further provided, and an instruction sheet, an infusion label and a bucket are provided on the injection table based on injection prescription data generated by the ampoule dispensing controller. A printer is preferably provided for printing the patient name label. Further, the injection table is provided with a bucket mounting section for mounting a bucket, and a writing means for storing in the bucket the data relating to the injectable drug container stored in the bucket mounted on the bucket mounting section. Are preferably provided.
By doing so, the data relating to the injection drug container stored in the bucket manually in this injection drug table is stored in the bucket, so that the bucket storing this injection drug container is placed on the bucket mounting section of the alignment table. It is possible to automatically dispense the trays to be stored in this bucket simply by placing the trays on. In this way, the tray and the injection drug container can be aligned without error. Here, it is preferable that the writing unit performs writing based on the data read from the barcode on the instruction sheet printed by the printer. With such a configuration,
Data can be input more easily than the method of inputting for each drug type of the infusion container.

Further, it is preferable that an injection prescription printer for printing all the injection prescription data for each patient is attached to the alignment table. By doing so, it is possible to more surely confirm the drug type by attaching the injection prescription data to the bucket.

[0011]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Next, specific embodiments of the injection medicine matching device according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is an assembly perspective view of an injection drug dispenser, a tray transfer conveyor and an alignment table, which constitute a part of an injection drug alignment system according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG.
It is a perspective view of an injection table which constitutes another part of the same injection medicine matching system.

As shown in the figure, in the injection drug matching system of the present embodiment, the ampoule (see FIG. 3) is aligned, and the ampoule 1 and an injectable drug container such as an infusion bottle, a bag, etc. , (Referred to simply as “injection drug container”) 2 (see FIG. 2), an alignment device body 6 configured by combining the injection drug dispenser 3, the tray transfer conveyor 4 and the alignment table 5 is provided. An injection drug table 7 for aligning the injection drug container 2 is provided separately from the device body 6.

Next, the respective devices constituting this injection medicine matching system will be sequentially described.

(1) Injection medicine dispenser 3 and tray transfer conveyor 4 As shown in FIG. 4, in this injection medicine dispenser 3, many ampules 1 of various sizes and shapes were laid down. A plurality of storage units 8 for storing in a state are provided in parallel, and adjacent to the storage unit 8, an empty tray storage portion 10a for storing a large number of empty trays 9 and an ampoule 1 are stored. A tray unit 10 having a tray stock portion 10b for stocking the tray 9 after being stacked is provided. Here, each storage unit 8, empty tray storage section 10a and tray stock section 10
Each of b is a front door system, and the cartridge or the tray 9 in which the ampoule 1 is stored can be taken in and out from the front side. Also, as shown in FIG.
The tray 9 has a flange 9a at the peripheral edge thereof and has a shape in which the internal space is partitioned by a plurality of partitions 9b, and the ampoules 1 of different types can be stored in the space between the partitions 9b without coming into contact with each other. It is like this. Although not shown, the tray 9 incorporates chips for storing various information in required parts.

The injection medicine dispensing machine 3 includes an ampoule dispensing controller 11 based on pre-input injection data.
The ampoule 1 required for the patient is discharged from a predetermined storage unit 8 according to a payout command from the tray 9 (see FIG. 5) and is accommodated in the tray 9, and the ampule-accommodated tray 9
To the tray outlet 12. In this payout procedure, first, an empty tray 9 is discharged from an empty tray storage section 10a onto a conveyor (not shown) below, and the tray 9 is horizontally moved in the left-right direction by the conveyor, and the required ampoule 1 is successively obtained. Are dropped and discharged from each storage unit 8 into the tray 9 (see FIG. 3A). The matching board terminal 13 issues a payout command to the ampoule payout controller 11.

Thus, the tray outlet 1 of the injection medicine dispenser 3
The tray 9 containing the ampoule 1 dispensed from 2 is delivered to the tray transport conveyor 4 connected to the tray outlet 12. The tray carrying conveyor 4 is for carrying the tray 9 received from the injection medicine dispenser 3 on the belt conveyor 14 and carrying it to the entrance of the alignment table 5, and the upper part thereof is covered with a hood 15 made of a transparent resin. . In addition,
In the present embodiment, it is assumed that the delivery timing of the tray 9 from the injecting drug dispenser 3 and the transport timing of the tray 9 by the tray transport conveyor 4 coincide with each other. Tray 9 with ampoules aligned
Since an up-and-down tray stock section 10b for stocking the tray is provided, the tray stock section 10b is used as a buffer section even if the ampoule alignment timing on the injection medicine dispensing machine 3 side is slightly earlier. It is possible to match the timing with the transport conveyor 4.

The tray outlet 1 of the injection dispenser 3 is also described.
2 is provided with an ID reader / writer 16 (see FIG. 5). When the tray 9 is dispensed, the ID reader / writer 16 writes a tray number (tray ID) into a chip incorporated in the tray 9. It is like this.

(2) Alignment Platform 5 The alignment platform 5 stores the tray 9 transported by the tray transport conveyor 4 in a tray stocker 32 having a shelf corresponding to each patient, which will be described later. The tray 9 of the corresponding patient is discharged based on the discharge command.

In the alignment table 5, a bucket loading section 23 for loading the bucket 22 in which the injection drug container 2 is loaded and a tray 9 ejected from a tray stocker 32, which will be described later, are loaded on the front portion. The tray placing section 24 is provided, and behind the tray placing section 24, there is an opening section 26 with an elevating shutter 25 for simultaneously ejecting a plurality (four in this embodiment) of trays 9. It is provided. An alignment monitor 27 for inspecting the injectable drugs to be aligned and an input touch panel 28 for inputting various data are incorporated above the bucket mount 23.
Here, the alignment monitor 27 is connected to the alignment table terminal 13, and the input touch panel 28 is connected to the injection slip confirmation terminal 29. Although not shown in FIG. 1, the injection prescription confirmation terminal 29 is provided with an injection prescription printer 30 for printing all injection prescription data for one patient.

In the bucket mount 23, a bucket ID (injection note) written in a chip (not shown) such as an IC chip attached to the bucket 22 mounted in the bucket mount 23 is shown. An ID reader / writer 31 for reading data, tray number) is incorporated. In addition,
The data read by the ID reader / writer 31 is transmitted to the tray stocker controller 21.

As shown in FIG. 6 (front view) and FIG. 7 (side view), the alignment table 5 is provided with a tray stocker 32 so as to be connected to the terminal end portion of the tray transport conveyor 4. ing. In this tray stocker 32,
A plurality of shelves 33 is a pair of left and right chain conveyors 34, 3
A tray alignment conveyor 35 is provided behind the shelf 33 at a predetermined height position so as to be vertically movable along the longitudinal direction of the shelf 33 (left-right direction in front view). Further, behind the tray alignment conveyor 35, a plurality of (four) trays 9 arranged on the tray alignment conveyor 35 are pushed out onto the shelf 33,
A pusher 36 having a variable stroke for pushing out the tray 9 placed on the shelf 33 to the tray placing section 24 in front.
Are arranged. On the other hand, at the entrance of the tray stocker 32, two entrance conveyors 37 and 38 for receiving the tray 9 carried by the tray carrying conveyor 4 are provided. Further, in order to deliver the tray 9 on the downstream side inlet conveyor 38 to the tray aligning conveyor 35, a delivering conveyor 39 is provided between the inlet conveyor 38 and the tray aligning conveyor 35. The transfer conveyor 39 serves to change the transfer direction of the tray 9 transferred by the inlet conveyors 37 and 38 by 90 ° and to lift the tray 9 to the height position of the tray alignment conveyor 35.

An ID reader / writer 40 (see FIG. 5) is provided at the entrance of the tray stocker 32. When the tray 9 is carried in, it is incorporated in the tray 9 by the ID reader / writer 40. The tray number (tray ID) is read from the chip. The read tray ID is transmitted to the tray stocker controller 21 and the tray stocker controller 21 stores the tray ID in association with the shelf number of the tray stocker 32.

The tray 9 in this tray stocker 32
Is stored and discharged as follows.

When the entrance conveyors 37 and 38 receive the tray 9 from the tray transfer conveyor 4, the transfer conveyor 3
9 receives the leading tray 9 and tray alignment conveyor 3
5, and the tray 9 is carried out onto the tray alignment conveyor 35. When this operation is repeated and a predetermined number of trays 9 (maximum 4) for each patient are arranged on the tray alignment conveyor 35, the shelves 33 corresponding to these arranged trays 9 are placed at positions facing the trays 9. When the tray aligning conveyor 35 is moved and the rack 33 is aligned with the tray aligning conveyor 35, the pusher 36 pushes the tray aligning conveyor 35.
The upper tray 9 is simultaneously pressed and placed on the shelf 33. In this way, the tray 9 for each patient is sequentially stored in the shelf 33 corresponding to that patient.

When the tray 9 for one patient is discharged from the stored shelves 33, a predetermined shelf 33 is moved up and down to a position facing the tray aligning conveyor 35 by a command from the tray stocker controller 21, and the pusher is pushed at this position. 36 is advanced by a stroke larger than the stroke at the time of storage by at least the width of the shelf 33, whereby the shelf 33 is moved.
At the same time, the upper tray 9 is pushed out to the tray mounting portion 24 through the opening 26. The shutter 25 is raised when the tray 9 is discharged.

(3) Injectable drug table 7 The injectable drug table 7 is an injectable drug container 2 such as an infusion bottle or bag which cannot be handled by the injectable drug dispenser 3.
Is manually performed, and a shelf 41 for storing these injectable drug containers 2, a bucket mounting section 42 on which the bucket 22 for storing the injectable drug containers 2 is placed, and this injectable drug container 2 A label printer 43 for printing a label attached to the container and a patient name label for a bucket, an instruction sheet printer 44 for printing an instruction sheet for instructing the injectable drug container 2 to be stored in a predetermined bucket 22, and the instruction sheet A bar code reader 45 for reading a bar code related to the injection prescription number attached to the container, and a wagon 46 for carrying the bucket 22 containing the injection drug container 2 is attached to the lower part of the injection drug table 7. Has been done.

In the bucket mount 42, a bucket ID (injection data, bucket number) is attached to a chip (not shown) such as an IC chip attached to the bucket 22 mounted on the bucket mount 42. , Tray number) I write
The D reader / writer 47 (see FIG. 5) is incorporated. The writing of data by the ID reader / writer 47 and the printing of data by the label printer 43 and the instruction sheet printer 44 are controlled by the injection table controller 48 based on the injection prescription data generated by the ampoule dispensing controller 11.

Next, the procedure for aligning the ampoule 1 and the injection drug container 2 in the injection drug matching system having the above-described structure will be described.

On the injection table 7, a label is printed from the label printer 43 and an instruction sheet is printed from the instruction sheet printer 44 based on the injection sheet data generated by the ampoule dispensing controller 11. The worker (pharmacist) places the empty bucket 22 on the bucket placement unit 42 and puts the target drug (injection drug container 2) in the bucket 22 based on the printed instruction sheet. When all the medicines have been put into the bucket 22, the bar code reader 45 reads the bar code associated with the injection number attached to the instruction sheet.

In the injection table controller 48, after the injection prescription number input from the bar code reader 45 is recognized, the chip attached to the bucket 22 is given the injection prescription number via the ID reader / writer 47. Each data of bucket number and tray number is written. After that, when the completion display of the writing is displayed by the lamp, the worker carries the bucket 22 containing the target chemical to the alignment table 5 with the instruction and the label attached. In this case, if the number of target chemicals is too large to fit in one bucket 22, each bucket 22
Then, the above-mentioned operation is performed to write information to the chip of each bucket 22. Further, when the instruction by the instruction is only the ampoule dispensed from the injection medicine dispenser 3, the above operation is performed in the empty bucket 22 that does not store the injection medicine container 2, and only the instruction is put. Bucket 2
Bring 2 to the alignment table 5.

On the other hand, the ampoule dispensing controller 11
LAN drive 50 when injection data is generated (see Fig. 5)
Then, the injection prescription data is created, the payout instruction data is transmitted to the injection medicine dispensing machine 3, and the matching data of the LAN drive 50 is updated. In this way, the tray 9 containing ampoules dispensed from the injection dispenser 3 is transported to the entrance of the tray stocker 32 by the tray transport conveyor 4 after the tray number (tray ID) is written by the ID reader / writer 16. At this entrance, the tray number is read by the ID reader / writer 31 and stored in the shelf 33 corresponding to this tray number.

When the bucket 22 brought in from the injection table 7 is placed on the bucket mounting portion 23, the injection prescription data and tray number of this bucket 22 are read by the ID reader / writer 40, and the read data is By being transmitted to the tray stocker controller 21, the tray 9 for one patient is ejected from the required shelf 33. In addition, when the buckets 22 are placed on the bucket placement unit 23, if the trays 32 of the tray stocker 32 do not have the required trays, the tray stocker controller 21 causes the alignment table terminal 13 to display the injection slip number. Send stock status and wait. Then, if there is a discharge instruction from the matching table terminal 13 based on an input from the input touch panel 28, the corresponding tray 9 is discharged.

When the required tray 9 is discharged to the tray placing section 24 in this manner, the bucket 22 and the discharge tray are viewed by looking at the injection data of the current bucket 22 displayed on the injection confirmation terminal 29. The operator stores the discharge tray 9 in the bucket 22 while performing the alignment check with 9. In addition,
A printout paper of all injection data of the patient, which is printed by the injection printer 30, is attached to the bucket 22.

According to this embodiment, it is possible to easily and surely match the type of drug such as ampoule which can be automatically dispensed with the type of drug such as injection drug container which cannot be dispensed automatically. However, it greatly contributes to reducing the burden on pharmacists.

In this embodiment, the injection code number is read by the bar code reader 45 when the injection drug container 2 is placed in the bucket 22. However, the injection code number is input by key input. Is also good.

In the present embodiment, the case where the ampoule trays are placed on the same shelf of the tray stocker and then discharged at once is described, but the ampoule trays for one patient may be discharged individually. Further, the tray stocker of the present embodiment is of a type that raises and lowers shelves,
It can also be of a type that circulates the shelves.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an assembly perspective view of an injection drug dispenser, a tray transfer conveyor, and an alignment table that form a part of an injection drug alignment system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of an injection drug table that constitutes another part of the injection drug matching system of the present embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view (a) for explaining how the ampoules are stored in the tray and a side view showing the trays in a stacked state.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of an injection drug dispenser.

FIG. 5 is a system configuration diagram of an injection drug matching system.

FIG. 6 is a front view showing an internal structure of a matching table.

FIG. 7 is a side view showing the internal structure of the matching table.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Ampoule 2 Injection drug container 3 Injection drug dispenser 4 Tray transport conveyor 5 Alignment platform 6 Alignment device body 7 Injection drug platform 9 Tray 11 Ampoule dispensing controller 13 Alignment platform terminal 16 ID reader / writer 21 Tray stocker controller 22 Bucket 23 Bucket loading Part 24 Tray mounting part 27 Alignment monitor 28 Input touch panel 31 ID reader / writer 32 Tray stocker 33 Shelf 42 Bucket mounting part 43 Label printer 44 Instruction printer 45 Bar code reader 47 ID reader / writer 48 Injection drug table controller

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. An injection medicine aligning device for accommodating an injectable medicine container that cannot be automatically dispensed and an ampoule tray for each patient and storing them in a bucket, wherein: (a) an ampoule tray for each patient is accommodated. An aligning table having a tray stocker for loading a tray discharged from the tray stocker and a bucket loading part for loading a bucket containing the injection drug container, b)
A reading means for reading a bucket ID stored in the bucket placed on the bucket placing section; and (c)
Upon receiving the signal from this reading means, the bucket ID
And a tray stocker controller for controlling the tray stocker so as to dispense a tray corresponding to the above to a tray mounting portion. 2. The injectable medicine aligning apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the tray stocker is supplied with a required tray from an injecting medicine dispenser via a tray transport conveyor. 3. The tray ID is written to the tray by a command from the ampoule dispensing controller when the tray is dispensed from the injection drug dispenser, and the tray ID is read when the tray is stored in the tray stocker. The read medicine data is transmitted to the tray stocker controller so that the tray is stored in a predetermined shelf of the tray stocker. 4. An injection medicine table for accommodating the injection medicine container is further provided, and an instruction sheet, an infusion label, and a bucket patient are provided on the injection medicine table on the basis of injection prescription data generated by the ampoule dispensing controller. The injection medicine matching device according to claim 3, further comprising a printer that prints a name label. 5. A bucket mounting portion for mounting a bucket is provided on the injection drug table, and data relating to an injection drug container stored in the bucket mounted on the bucket mounting portion is stored in the bucket. The injection medicine matching device according to claim 4, further comprising writing means for causing the injection medicine matching device. 6. The writing means performs writing based on data read from a bar code on an instruction sheet printed by the printer.
The injectable drug matching device according to 1. 7. The injection medicine according to claim 1, wherein the matching table is provided with an injection prescription printer for printing all injection prescription data for each patient. Matching device.