WO2000037129A1 - Method and device for monitoring fluid level - Google Patents
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- A61B5/00—Measuring for diagnostic purposes; Identification of persons
- A61B5/145—Measuring characteristics of blood in vivo, e.g. gas concentration, pH value; Measuring characteristics of body fluids or tissues, e.g. interstitial fluid, cerebral tissue
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- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
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- A61B5/00—Measuring for diagnostic purposes; Identification of persons
- A61B5/20—Measuring for diagnostic purposes; Identification of persons for measuring urological functions restricted to the evaluation of the urinary system
- A61B5/207—Sensing devices adapted to collect urine
- A61B5/208—Sensing devices adapted to collect urine adapted to determine urine quantity, e.g. flow, volume
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- This invention relates to a method and device for automatically monitoring and controlling intravenous delivery of fluids and monitoring body fluid excretion for improving fluid balance of patients.
- Intravenous delivery of various packed liquids, including electrolytes, chemotherapeutic drug solutions, blood products and hyperalimentation formula components is an important part of patient care.
- Monitoring of "fluid balance" is one of the most important problems in postoperative patients, because most of them cannot be fed orally, and all fluids and medications have to be administered intravenously.
- the amount of fluid that has to be infused is primarily dependent on the patient " s needs as well as on his urine output, and therefore these parameters have to be frequently followed very carefully in the early postoperative period or during any severe illness.
- Conventional automatic modular infusion pumping systems do not possess reliable technical means for automatically keeping this balance between fluid input and output.
- Adjustments in the prescription for the rate of delivery of intravenous fluids are periodically made by physicians and/or by observing staff, taking into consideration the fluid output of the patient.
- the excreted urine is usually collected through a urethral catheter into plastic bags with measure points from 100 ml to 2000 ml.
- Conventional modular infusion delivery pumping systems usually do not possess an inlaid ability to automatically correct fluid input according to the urine output of the patient. This drawback is mostly due to the lack of effective fluid level sensors, controlling fluid delivery and urine output.
- infusion fluid solutions are packed in disposable transparent plastic material bags. Similar disposable plastic material bags are also used as standard urine collectors.
- collectors are an important device for care of patients suffering from inability to urinate permanently or temporarily, including disabled and geriatric patients treated in institutions or in home environment.
- the appropriate measurements of the rate of fluid delivery and/or urine output are performed visually by watching and recording fluid level in the transparent disposable material bags. Such measurements are performed by the observing staff and, in some circumstances, by the patients themselves or by their caring family members. After surgery, long term monitoring of infusion and excretion volume is usually necessary. Therefore, it is very difficult to perform the concurrent manual measurements.
- U.S. Pat. 5,623,252 describes a liquid level detector which utilizes audio frequency detectors for monitoring a liquid level of combustible liquids such gasoline and diesel fuel in tanks.
- a sensor utilizing AC and resistance measurements for determination of the liquid level of conductive liquids, and particularly conductive liquids which may contain sludge, is disclosed in U.S. Pat. 5,719,556.
- a method and capacitance level gauge assembly for placement in a container to determine the amount or level of a substance therein is disclosed in U.S. Pat. U.S. Re. 34,601.
- a device for determination of a liquid level utilizing a temperature dependent foil, which is immersed in a liquid is disclosed in U.S. Pat. 4,592,231. The total resistance of the foil is calibrated in a way to indicate a liquid level.
- the volume of the body fluid is measured using electric signals.
- the sensor includes a pair of electrodes placed along the volume length or height of a storage tank. Since the electric conductivity between the electrodes is a function of the volume/level of the fluid, the electric signals received from the sensor indicate the resistance value which is based upon the volume of the body fluid stored in the storage tank.
- the system should enable the monitoring on display, e.g. at a nurses' central station, one or more of the following data: 1. Continuous measurement of the fluid amount that was already infused to the patient;
- the system includes a feedback central action, allowing a nurse to correct from the nursing station the rates of delivery of the fluids in the individual patients.
- the sensors for automatic measurements of the level and rate of fluid delivery and/or urine output are integral with disposable infusion delivery bags, used for intravenous delivery of electrolyte solutions, blood and blood components, parenteral nutrition components, drug solutions, and/or urine bag collectors, etc.
- the measurements of the level and rate of fluid delivery and/or urine output are achieved from electric conductivity, capacitance and/or heat emission measurements for determination of the fluid volume and rate in the infusion bags, urine collectors or any other disposable fluid containers.
- the sensors instead of a pair of electrodes, utilize a plurality of electrodes attached or imprinted on the surfaces of the disposable fluid container.
- the present invention provides an infusion bag having at least two pairs of electrodes attached to the external surface of substantially opposite walls of the bag and being capable of measuring electric capacitance indicative of the fluid volume in the bag.
- the present invention provides a container for collecting excreted body fluids having at least two pairs of electrodes attached to the external surface of substantially opposite walls of the container and being capable of measuring electric capacitance indicative of the fluid volume in the container.
- the invention provides a container for collecting excreted body fluids having a plurality of electrodes attached to the inner surface of the container and being capable of measuring electric conductivity indicative of the fluid volume in the container, wherein the electrodes comprise a series of electrodes whose distal ends are at progressively increasing distances from the distal end of the container.
- a system for automatic monitoring and control of the fluid balance of the individual patients fluid balance at clinical departments comprising: (a) an infusion bag according to the invention capable of being connected to said patient;
- a urine collecting container according to the invention capable of being connected to said patient; and (d) a monitoring and control device connected to (a), (b) and (c) for receiving data from (a) and (c) and sending control signals to (b).
- a method of automatic monitoring and control of the fluid balance of the individual patients fluid balance at clinical departments comprising the following steps: (a) connecting an infusion bag according to the invention to a patient through a fluid pump;
- Fig. 1 is a schematic illustration of one embodiment of a monitoring system based on electric capacitance measurements
- Fig. 2 is a typical curve of capacitance as a function of volume
- FIG. 3 is a schematic illustration of another embodiment of a container according to the invention.
- Fig. 4 is a schematic illustration of a further embodiment of a container according to the invention with a temperature-dependent sensor
- Fig. 5 is a block diagram illustrating one embodiment of the system of the invention.
- a container 21 having flexible walls 22 made of a substantially nonconductive material integrated with a plurality of substantially conductive strips 23 attached to the outer surface of the walls along the longitudinal axis of the container.
- the electrodes are coupled via wires 27 through a multiplexing switcher 24 to a gauge 25 capable of capacitance measurements.
- the electrodes should be of sufficient size in order to provide a possibility to measure an electric capacitance of a capacitor formed by any pair of the electrodes.
- This capacitance will be proportional to the electrode area and the dielectric permittivity of the liquid filling the container, and it is inversely proportional to the distance between the electrodes.
- a layer 26 of material having a high dielectric permittivity should be placed between the walls 22 and the electrodes 23.
- This layer for example, may be made of therylene.
- FIG. 3 there is shown a schematic illustration of a monitoring device utilizing a medical container, such as an urine collector, according to another embodiment of the invention.
- This container includes two communicating compartments.
- a compartment 1 servers for receiving the excreted body urine 3 via a catheter 4 coupled to the patient's bladder (not shown).
- a compartment 2 includes a sensor 5 utilizing electric conductivity measurements of the urine. The utilization of two compartments instead of just one is preferable in order to prevent measurement errors due to the irregular influx of the urine.
- the sensor includes a plurality of electrodes, one of which is formed as a continuous general vertical line electrode 6.
- the other electrodes 7 extend along the height of the measured volume.
- These electrodes at one end have a contact point sites 8, and are arranged with progressively increasing distances from the distal end of the container. Since urine is an electro-conductive fluid, electrical shorting between one of these point sites and a continuous line electrode 10 allows determination of the urine level. All the electrodes at the second end are connected by outlets with a general connector 9, connecting the sensor with a gauge device (not shown) monitoring the liquid volume.
- utilizing a plurality of electrodes enables to divide an analog signal into a plurality of increments, and thus, by using this discretization, to treat the signal in a digital manner.
- R is the magnitude of the electrical resistance (or conductivity) between the general electrode 6 and the electrode having a number z; and Rot is the magnitude of the electrical resistance (or conductivity) between the electrides having numbers i and i-1.
- a collector 41 that may be, for example, a conventional urine collector, connected through a tube 42 to the urine catheter 43.
- a pair of flexible average temperature sensors 44 and 45 are inserted in the container and are arranged along the longitudinal axis of the container. The function of one of these average temperature sensors is heat emission and a function of the second average temperature sensor is to measure an effective temperature of the air and urine inside the urine collector.
- These flexible sensors via a wire 46 are connected to a signal gauge device (not shown) for continuous quantitative monitoring of the urine volume in the urine bag collector.
- the main average temperature sensor In operation, when urine in the bag collector is absent, the main average temperature sensor has a predetermined value of the electrical resistance R. The coefficient of the heat transmission changes after urine has entered the bag collector. Therefore, the temperature of the sensor increases together with the increase of its resistance upto the value Ri. Therefore, the quantity of the urine in the bag collector is a function of the value Ri- R.
- a second temperature sensor which measures an effective temperature of the air and the urine according to the quantity of the urine inside the collector, is defined as a compensatory sensor.
- Flexible average temperature sensors may express a measure of non-linearity according to variability of the shapes of the urine bag collectors.
- a special gauge device for continuous/interval urine output indication and registration is connected to a special analog or a digital display with an alarm (not shown).
- An algorithm in the said indication/registration gauge device takes into consideration an integral and differential values of the quantitative dynamics of the urine output.
- a fluid balance may be calculated automatically in the morning or whenever desired during the day or night.
- D3I infusion disposable bag with inlaid sensor (fluid delivered from bag by gravitation)
- D32 infusion disposable bag with inlaid sensor (fluid delivered from bag with the help of automatic pumping provided by APS).
- APS automatic pumping system e.g. Ivac
- S-6 signal gauge device coupled with radio or infrared or other means transmitter and also providing warning in the immediate vicinity.
- RC radio or infrared or other means further signal transmission channel further signal transmission channel.
- Mi modem 1 (intermediate transmission station 1).
- M 2 final transmission station.
- VLD logic device (may be PC) in the central nurse station.
- TM illustrating possibility of the immediate delivery of information through telephone modem > ⁇ feeding of information from sensors to PC and feedback correction from PC to periphery.
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