CA2338259A1 - Portable immediate response medical analyzer having multiple testing modules - Google Patents
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Abstract
A portable device that includes a plurality of test modules for analyzing preselected concentrations of various body fluids of a patient. The portable diagnostic device interfaces and utilizes disposable cartridges and reagent diagnostic test strips and other fluid sample diagnostic devices to determine the amounts of preseelected parameters in a patient's blood through either electrochemical, electrical, optical, or mechanical analysis. The disposable fluid sample diagnostic devices may include sample chambers with inlet ports, electrical, physical, or chemical sensors, in situ calibration media, a plurality of electrical interface terminals, and temperature control elements.
An electrical interface interconnects the various test modules with one or more corresponding integrated circuits which in turn are electrically coupled to a common interactive display, printer, power supply, and communication ports.
An electrical interface interconnects the various test modules with one or more corresponding integrated circuits which in turn are electrically coupled to a common interactive display, printer, power supply, and communication ports.
Description
PORTABLE IMMEDIATE RESPONSE MEDICAL ANALYZER
HAVING MULTIPLE TESTING MODULES
The present application is a complete application claiming priority based on co-pending Provisional Application Serial Number 60/053,406, filed July 22 , 1997 and entitled "IMMEDIATE RESPONSE MEDICAL ANALYZER HAVING
MULTIPLE TEST MODt;JLES" .
BACRGROUND OF THE INVENTION
I. Field of the Invention The present invention is directed generally to a stationary or portable diagnostic system or electroanalytical systems for analyzing preselected characteristics of a patient's blood and other fluids.
More particularly the present invention is concerned with a portable diagnostic device or analytic instrument that includes a plurality of test modules for analyzing various body fluids of a patient, wherein the modules are coupled to a common display, printer, power supply, and communication ports. The portable diagnostic device interfaces and utilizes disposable cartridges, reagent diagnostic test strips, or other means to determine, for example, a patient's blood pH, p02, pCO~ , Na+, Ca+ , ~ , hematocrit, glucose and/or other parameters including oxygen saturation, coagulation or hemoglobin fractions.
The modules may determine the parameters through a variety of methods such as electrochemical, electrical, optical, or mechanical analysis of a fluid biological sample extracted from the patient: The disposable cartridge may utilize a bank of sensors for the pertinent electroactive species to provide input in the form of analog electrical signals for the relevant determinations.
II. Related Art During clinical, surgical, diagnostic and other medical procedures the measurement of certain physical/chemical characteristics or conditions of the blood and other fluids of a patient are useful in order to evaluate the condition of a patient. For example, a WO 00/~5581 PCT/US99/14699 _2_ patient's blood pH, p02, pC02, Na+, Ca~ø , 1~ , hematocrit, glucose and other parameters including oxygen saturation, coagulation or hemoglobin fractions may be measured. These conditions may provide important indications of the patient's stability including, for example, the efficiency of the bloodJga_~ exchange occurring in the lungs of~the patient, the relative acid/base balance, or the concentration of certain indicative ion species in the blood. Such determinations are particularly useful in emergency circumstances.
In the past, the equipment provided to make~such determinations has typically been complex and permanently installed in a hospital laboratory. Also, the user operating the equipment has been oftentimes required to be a highly-trained. and skilled technician, which thereby increases the cost of operating the equipment and limits the number of potential users. With such equipment, in order to analyze a sample of fluid from the patient, a sample must be drawn from the patient and delivered to the laboratory, avoiding all external contacts.
During the transfer and delivery, the drawn fluids may be kept in clo.ae proximity to ice packs in order to maintain sample integrity. The sample is then injected into a designated receptacle of the diagnostic equipment and the equipment operated to perform the diagnostics on the sample. Tlhis procedure is time consuming, labor intensive, and usually disadvantageous in the operating room, emergency' room or other area of the hospital, or outside the hosp3.ta1 where time is of the essence. Hence, portable deviae~; that reduce the time required to make accurate blood-gas and related determinations, in order that proper and more timely corrective steps may be taken, are highly soughit .
Many situations arise where it is impractical to deliver a patient's fluid sample to a hospital laboratory in order to analyze the patient's blood analytes. It would be desirable for paramedics and in-home health care WO 00/05581 PCT/US99li4699 providers, for example, to analyze a sample at the point of collection without having to first deliver a sample to a hospital laboratory. To this end, it would also be desirable to provide a single portable diagnostic device capable of analyzing simultaneously several samples and/or conducting several. electrochemical, electrical, optical, or mechanical analysis simultaneously or in rapid succession to determine, a patient's blood pH, p02, pG02, Na+, Ga~'+, K+, hematocrit, glucose and other parameters including oxygen saturation, coagulation or hemoglobin fractions.
There have been attempts at point-of-care blood-gas analysis. One on--site analytic device, described by Enzer et al in U.S. Patent 4,786,394, is designed for direct connection to a heart/lung machine to monitor critical blood gases during open-heart surgery. It employs a discardable sensor cartridge which contains a bank of sensors for making the electrochemical determinations. A
further patent to Enzer et al (U. S. Patent 4,397,725) also discloses a clinical blood chemistry analyzer in which a discardable cartridge interfaces with an analytical machine. Although the analyzer may be utilized on-site during surgery, the device disclosed by Enzer remains relatively stationary and immobile. Morris et al in U.S.
Patent 5,325,853 (of common assignment with the present invention) disclose a self-calibrating disposable sensor system.
Carter et al in U.S. Patent 5,628,890 describe an electrochemical sensor for measuring the glucose concentration in a patient's blood. Such a sensor is limited to the particular analyte being measured and requires an interface with an electrochemical sensor.
Stark in U.S. Patent 5,433,197 describes a non-invasive glucose measurement device that requires illumination of the patient's eye with near infrared radiation. The capability of the Stark device is limited to determining blood glucose. Phillips et al in U.S. Patent 5,563,042 describe a device that measures glucose concentration in WO 00/05581 PCTlUS99/14699 whole blood optically using a reflective reading apparatus and a whole blood glucose test strip.
A further reference is contained in U.S. Patent 4,849,340 to Obey°hardt discloses a device that measures coagulation in whole blood using a liquid assay device and method.
Although somewhat useful, such devices are limited in application and address only part of the drawbacks of,prior systems. There remains a need for a rapidly responding, portable blood chemistry analytical device. A need also .exists for a single, portable, self-calibrating, instant activation, rapiat response diagnostic device capable of simultaneous analysis of several samples and/or conducting several electroch~:mical, electrical, optical, or mechanical analysis simultaneously or in rapid succession to determine, blood pH, pot, pCOZ , Na+, Ca++ , I~ , hematocrit, glucose and other parameters including oxygen saturation, coagulation or hemoglobin fractions. The present invention meets these needs and overcomes the disadvantages of prior devices.
!SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present ~Lnvention provides a point-of-care medical analyzer that enables an operator without special training or skills to obtain rapid, accurate blood-gas, glucose, and other analyte determinations at the time and location the sample is drawn. The device is compact, light-weight, easily transported and ready for immediate use. The analyzer is designed for rapid processing of electrical signals generated by electrochemical, electrical, optical, or mechanical sensors of an associated module having both calibration and sample determination modes and utilizing one-time use or disposable cartridges. The modules may be removed from the analytic device and interchanged.
The plug-in disposable electrochemical sensor cartridge which may be similar to that depicted in the above-cited U.S. Patent 5,325,853, the entire contents of which are hereby :i.ncorporated by reference. for any purpose, WO 00/055$1 PCT/US99/14699 employs an array of sensors, typically a bank of aligned sensors an a ceramic chip in a flow-through chamber. The flaw-through chamber, as packaged, further contains a calibration medium retained in situ with respect to corresponding sensors to be calibrated such that when the disposable cartridge is activated in conjunction with insertion into and electrical connection with the analytical device, calibration signals are produced by the sensors on the disposable cartridge which enables immediate automatic calibration of the sensors. The sample may thereafter be introduced through an entry port in a manner which causes the calibration medium to be displaced from the flow-through chamber and replaced by the blood or other fluid sample then in direct contact with the sensors. The array of electrochemical sensors then produces electrical signals in accordance with the characteristics of the sample.
The disposax>le sample cartridge carries a heater in the form of a thin or thick film resistor carried on the sensor chip itself designed to bring the sample quickly to the temperature desired for the analytic determination based on an optical sensor and remote control from within the analytical dE:vice. Such a system is depicted in Hieb et al., U.S. Pate.nt 5,232,667, assigned to the same assignee as the present invention, the entire disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference for any purpose. Once the desired temperature is reached, the electrical signals from the electrochemical sensors are received and processed by the portable analyzer and the results made available on a display and/or in printed form. Other suitable "cartridges"
are used in association with the other modules.
Tt will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the analytical instrument is required to provide only the signal processing systems for calibration and measurement. The remote temperature sensing and control system provided in the portable instrument, for example, _6_ controls only the electric input to a heater located in the disposable cartridge. There is no heating system, per se, in the analytical instrument. The heating control system preferably includes an IR probe or other remote temperature sensing device which is used in association with a programmed control or set point temperature to rapidly establish and maintain the desired temperature in the disposable cartridge. Further details of the temperature control arrangement are contained in the above-referenced patent issued to Hieb et al (5,232,667).
Tn operation, the fully portable analytical instrument is brought to the point of sampling, i.e., the location of the patient. A predetermined number of disposable cartridges are removed from a temperature-stabilized packaging and inserted or plugged into corresponding modules of the analyzer. The instrument is activated; the sensors are calibrated automatically and the calibration electronically compensated with respect to an ensuing set of measurement signals. A sample of interest is obtained from the patient and a portion may immediately be transferred to t:he sample inlet port of the calibrated sensor system on each disposable cartridge. The sample displaces the calibration medium to a storage chamber and avails the electrochemical sensors far an immediate sensing of the corresponding species of interest in the sample.
Other types of sensors including electrochemically active reagent test strips may be exposed to the sample and inserted into a corresponding module.
The user determines the particular needs for testing and determines which modules to attach to the base unit of the immediate response medical analyzer. Plugging the disposable cartridges and inserting relevant sample strips into the respective module of the portable medical analyzer activates the system. The activation of the system also activates the temperature control system which maintains the sensor chip, or equivalent, at the desired calibration and analysis temperature for those determinations that require temperature control. If the sample within the cartridge is at .a different temperature, the temperature control system reacts quickly and controls the sensors to restore the desired temperature to the system. Of course, some determinations, including glucose measurement, do not require temperature control.
After the de~terminatians have achieved equilibrium and the correspondingf signals have been read by the analyzer,.
the analyzer computes the results based on the sensor outputs. The results are made immediately available on a combination touclh screen LCD display and as a printed record using an integral printer. It is anticipated that the entire operation from first insertion of the cartridges and activation of the system until printout of the results, assuming the immediate availability of the sample, can be achieved in less than three minutes. In addition to the rapid availabilivty, the results are also stored by the device in memory for later retrieval by touch screen, printer or to bE: sent via a communications port to an external or remote computer or laboratory.
osJEC~s It is accordingly a principal object of the present invention to provide a portable, rapidly responding, point of-care medical device having several modules capable of independently determining a plurality of predetermined analytes from,a fluid biological sample.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a rapidly responding, portable medical analytical instrument capable of interfacing with several self-contained, self-calibrating, or pre-calibrated, disposable fluid sample devices of varying construction.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a portab~.e sophisticated medical analyzer capable of simplistic user friendly operation.
A further abject of the invention is to provide a self-contained point-of-care blood analyte analyzer capable of instant activation and almost immediate response in WO OOlOSS8I PCTIUS99114699 _g-determining a patient ° s blood pH, p02 ~ pCO2, Na+, Caø+, K' , hematocrit, glucose and other parameters including oxygen saturation, coagulation or hemoglobin fraction.
These and other objects, as well as these and other features and advantages of the present invention will become readily apparent to those skilled in the art from a review of the following detailed description of the illustrated embodiment in conjunction with the accompanying claims and drawings in which like numerals in the several views refer to corresponding parts.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
Figure la is a perspective view of the multiple module portable point°of-care analyzer of the present invention;
Figure 1b is a perspective view of a multiple module similar to the analyzer of Figure 1a with an additional module attached;
Figure 2 is a partially exploded perspective view of the device of Figure 1 showing a module removed;
Figure 3 is a fragmentary, partially exploded, lower perspective view of the device showing a module removed from the analyzer-;
Figure 4 is a partially exploded perspective view of the top section of the device of Figures 1 or 2, without the removed module and including a non-contact temperature Sensor probe and print roll;
Figure 5 is a schematic system block diagram for one embodiment of the multi-module or multiple module portable medical analyzer of the invention;
Figure 6 is an electrical schematic illustrating the connection between a glucose module and the integrated circuit of the analyzer;
Figure 7 is a fragmentary perspective view of a cartridge receptacle interface with a cartridge inserted;
Figure 8 is a perspective view of a disposable cartridge for use: with the analyzer of the invention;
Figure 9 is a schematic diagram of an analog interface subsystem associated with Figure 5;
_g_ Figure 10 is a partially exploded perspective view of an alternate embodiment of the portable point-of-care analyzer of the present invention; and Figures 11-~13 depict schematic block diagrams of examples of modules that interface with each of the modular interface system types depicted in Figure 5.
DETAILED DE&~CRIPTION OF TI~(E PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
The present invention includes a point-of-care and immediate response portable medical analyzer that features automated calibration and analysis for a variety of uses.
The analyzer includes several interchangeable modules that allow the user to analyze several samples or analyze one sample for several predetermined criteria at the point-of-care without extended delays. Thus blood-gas analysis results can be made available to the attending physician, surgeon, or othe~e° health care provider within a minute or two after the drawing of a sample. Moreover, it takes no particular skill to operate the portable medical analyzer inasmuch as both calibration and sample analysis have been automated in conjunction with a unique self-calibrating system. A disposable plug-in cartridge unit interfaces with the medical. analyzing device or a reagant strip is automatically interfaced with an output system. While the illustrated embodiments described below are directed to blood-gas and blood-electrolyte analysis, it will occur to those skilled in the art that these are meant as examples and are in no way intended to introduce limitations to the scope of the invention and that the system can be adapted to other analyses involving blood or other body sera without departing from the essential premises of the invention. It will be appreciated from the views of Figures la-4 that one advantage of the portable analyzer of the invention i.s that it is mechanically simple and eliminates the need for medical personal to transport samples to a plurality of diagnostic analyzers.
With this in mind attention is directed first to Figures la and lb where a portable analytic device in accordance with the present invention is shown generally at 10. The base unit device 10 includes a housing 12, a first permanent module l4, a second removable module 16, a touch screen interactive display 18, a printer 20, and a replaceable power supply 22. The base unit enclosed in the housing 12 also includes an upper section 24 and a lower section 26, and includes a void area to define a handle 28.
An attached removable second module is shown at 16. The first permanent module 14 includes a cartridge receptacle 30 having a pair of guide flange 32 to hold and guide the sides of a disposable cartridge 140 (see Figure 8) into the-receptacle 30. As shown in Figure ib, an additional module 33 which may be interposed between the module 16 and the basic analytical device 10. The embodiment of Figure 1b notably further includes an additional interface section 34 which includes a plug receptacle 35 represents another interface to receive yet another measurement module having an input and output integrated into the basic analytical unit 10.
A remote temperature sensor 36 is positioned in the receptacle 30 (see Figure 4) beneath an opening 37, thereby providing for temperature measurements of the cartridge 140 as further described below. As best seen in connection with Figure 4, the interactive display 18 includes a touch screen with an 8 x 8 grid mask 42 associated with an output LCD window or cover 44 which is fastened beneath an opening 46 in the top housing member 24.
The power supply 22 includes a battery pack, which supplies power through ON-OFF control to the microprocessor, cartridge interface and the touch screen 18. Common voltages are supplied as needed within the processing circuitry through a variety of voltage converters which also supply the liquid crystal display bias and the back lighting for the touch screen 18. This system is considered conventional to those skilled in the art, and further explanation is believed unnecessary.
Module 16 is a glucose meter that includes a receptacle 48 for insertion of a test strip. Without any limitation intended, the module 16 may utilize, for example, the motherboard and test receptacle of a SURESTEP
glucose. meter available from Lifescan, Inc. Milipitis, California. The motherboard and test strip receptacle are mounted to the module and are electrically coupled to a connector that interconnects a communication line and power supply to the internal electrical components contained within housing 12. A relay and control line may be added to allow control of the power supplied to the module 16.
'Module 33 may be capable of performing a coagulation assay such as PT (prothrombin time), PTT (activated partial thrombo-plastin time) or ACT (activated clotting time).
This module may measure whole blood coagulation time and includes a system for receiving a liquid sample into a reaction chamber containing a reagent material which reacts with the sample t:o perform the detmination. The reaction can be monitored optically to determine the assay time.
Such a system is illustrated and described in I1.S. Patent 4,849,340 to Oberhardt, the details of which are deemed incorporated by reference herein far any purpose. The output signals from that module are digitized and processed within the module itself prior to being communicated to the base unit.
Those skilled in the art will appreciate that modules 14, 16 and 33 may be different sensors of suitable construction or additional examples include modified slightly to interface with electrical components of the present invention. Optionally, additional modular units may be added in stacked or separate arrangements. The appropriate interconnects including communication and power supply links can be provided as direct plug-in linkages from the base unit and through other sensor modules.
Without any limitation intended, dedicated removable sensor modules may include a visible light sensing device that makes co-oximetry measurements such as total hemoglobin concentrations (tHb), oxyhemoglobin (02Hb), carboxyhemoglobin (COHb) and methemoglobin (MetHb) of a blood sample contained in a cartridge or cuvette may be mounted in a module and interconnected with the present invention. Modules of this type are available from AV4X
Systems Incorporated of San Antonio, Texas. Those skilled in the art wild appreciate 'that the mother board and optical bench of such a sensor may be removed and electrically .connected within the housing 12 of the analytic device :10. An external connector may be used to interconnect the sensor module's communication lines and power supply to the device 10. A relay with one control line may be added to allow control over the module by the device 10. Also, the controlling software may be modified to allow control of the module via the device 10.
Figures 2 and 3 illustrate the removeability of the second module 16. The module 16 locks onto the housing 12 (Figure la) may utilize a male and female quick release lock of known suitable construction. When the module 16 is locked in place, the electrical contacts 38 of the module engage with the electrical contacts 40 protruding from the housing 12. Those skilled in the art, will appreciate that a plurality of electrical contacts may be utilized to form a serial port or other electrical connection of known suitable construcaion to thereby interconnect the internal electrical components of the module 16 with an integrated circuit and central processing unit (CPU) contained within the housing 12. The module 16 includes a receptacle 48 adapted for receiving a diagnostic test strip or electrochemical sensor of known suitable construction. The module 33 of Figure 1b attaches to the housing 12 in a similar manner and includes pass-through interfaces and housing lock system to accommodate the module 16 in a piggyback or tandem stacked arrangement. Note that module 33 also has a further plug receptacle 35a situated to accommodate yet annother modular sensor.
In accordance with the operation of the portable medical analyzer of the invention, a typical operating system is shown in block diagram in Figure 5. Additional details of subsy,atems are illustrated in Figures 6 and 9.
The interface of module 16 with the integrated circuit contained within housing 12 is depicted in Figure 6 and the analog interface system is depicted in Figure 8.
Additional information can be gleaned with reference to the schematic block diagram of Figure 5. The system is operated by a programmed central processing unit 70 which operates in conjunction with a voltage controlled oscillator 72, real-time clock 74 with associated non-volatile random access memory (novram) 76 random access memory (RAM) 78 and erasable programmable read only memory (EPROM) 80. The system further includes a communication integrated circuit 82 (RS232 with interface 84 and a typical circuit connector 86). Also included is an interface 88 for the interactive touch screen display 18.
A printer interface 90 for printer output and LCD interface 92 are also shown. Various switches and an alarm or beeper device 94 are connected through a bit output device at 96.
An analog interface 98 interconnects the heater system 100, sensor interface 102 and module interfaces 104-110. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that additional module interfaces 112-1:16 may be interconnected with integrated circuit 82 via a multiplexor 118. Additionally, module interfaces 120-124 may be directly connected to the central processing unit 70. In this manner, those skilled in the art will appreciate that a variety of modules having various processing components may be rendered compatible with the present portable device l0.
For example, Figure 6 shows a glucose measuring module of common known construction electrically coupled to an immediate response medical analyzer (IRMA). Figure il depicts a typical module of a class designed to interface with the instrument 10 through any of interface modules and may include a C1~U 150 cannected to the module interface through a serial input/output device. The module further typically includes a sensor interface 154 with associated measurement circuitry 156 signal conditioning system 158 and A/D signal converter 160. A CPU controlled DAC signal generator 162 provides an analog interface with a temperature control system and sensor interface 154. The module depicted in Figure 12 is of a class that are designed to connect to a module interface through a multiplexer and communication IC as at 118 and 82. This includes any of the module interfaces 112, 116. It will be appreciated that the modules 16 and 33 are compatable with this type of interface. Figure 13 depicts yet another type of connected device compatable with the module interfaces 104- 110.
With respect. to Figure 9, it will be appreciated that once the disposable cartridge _i.s plugged into the analyzer and the analyzer is turned on, calibration signals are almost immediately available on a clock controlled or prioritized channel selective interface bus as at 130 such that by employing a serial clock, the serially obtained data available on the bus 130 can be processed by a serial to parallel converter 132 interfacing with the central processing unit 70 to sort out the multiple signals being received from A-to-D converters 134-142. Corrective data where applicable and reference measurements are provided via the A-to-D converter 142 from a multiplexer channel control 244 that receives input from a variety of sources including barometric pressure sensor, temperature, reference electrode signals and an oxygen bias signal, if used, from the sensor interface 102. The clock controlled CPU interfaces with both the multiplexer channel control and the remaining electrochemical sensors via the serial to parallel converi:er in a manner which uses the signals together with the available calibration condition data from the multiplexer via A-to-D converter 142 to accurately calibrate each of: the species sensors for subsequent use in making a determination in the sample.
It will be appreciated that in this manner, each disposable cartridge is automatically individually calibrated with respect to the measurements to be made once connected to the analyzer and activated. Determination of each sample is then made pursuant to an individualized calibration based on the disposable cartridge itself and not based on calibration of any of the components in the portable analytical device.
Figure 8 depicts a perspective view of the disposable cartridge 34 designed for use in association with the medical analyzer 10 of the invention. The cartridge 34 includes a substantially planar base member or plate 146 and a housing 148 fixed to the base member 146. One end of the cartridge is :Formed to include a handle with a gripping flange 150 to obtain a better grasp of the cartridge 34.
Side flange members 152 extend from the sides of the planar base and slide under guide flanges 32 of the cartridge receptacle 30. Figure 7 shows the cartridge 34 aligned and engaged with receptacle 30 and having an infection syringe 154 positioned to introduce a sample into a sample port 156.
The cartridge is further provided with an array of electrical leads or terminals as at 158 configured to connect with corresponding terminals in the analytical instrument cooperating in the exchange of electrical signals between the analytical instrument and cartridge in a well-known manner. These terminals connect to corresponding conductors (not shown) of the receptacle 30 which provide all necessary input and output connections to control the functions and transmit the necessary signals between the cartridge and the analytical instrument. The cartridge housing 148 further defines a flow-through analytical cell chamber or volume containing an array of electrochemical sensors 3.60-168 connected to a relatively larger waste receptacle chamber 170. The cartridge waste volume 170 includes a retention maze in the form of a plurality of partitions as at 172. As recognized above, the cartridge and module 14 are described in greater detail in U.S. Patent 5,325,853, the entire disclosure of which has been incorporated herein by reference.
An alternate: embodiment of the portable device 10 is shown~generally at 200 in Figure 10. The device is adapted for receiving a cassette 202 in which is electrically integrated a plurality of testing modules 204-208. The cassette 202 is provided with a cover that engages with the base of cassette 202. A rechargeable, replaceable battery pack 212 is shown elevated above the portable device 200.
The device 200 also includes an interactive display 214 and printer 216. The cassette 202 includes electrical connectors that electrically interconnect each module 204-208 with the electrical components contained within the device 200 (including a central processing unit arid integrated circuit). The modules 204-208 may be removed from the cassette 202 and are interchangeable. In this manner, the user may either analyze several samples using similar modules or may select different modules to perform varying analysis and diagnostics of a single sample.
This invention has been described herein in considerable detail in order to comply with the Patent Statutes and to provide those skilled in the art with the information needed to apply the novel principles and to construct and use embodiments of the example as required.
However, it is to be understood that the invention can be carried out by specifically different devices and that various modifications can be accomplished without departing from the scope of the invention itself.
What is claimed is:
HAVING MULTIPLE TESTING MODULES
The present application is a complete application claiming priority based on co-pending Provisional Application Serial Number 60/053,406, filed July 22 , 1997 and entitled "IMMEDIATE RESPONSE MEDICAL ANALYZER HAVING
MULTIPLE TEST MODt;JLES" .
BACRGROUND OF THE INVENTION
I. Field of the Invention The present invention is directed generally to a stationary or portable diagnostic system or electroanalytical systems for analyzing preselected characteristics of a patient's blood and other fluids.
More particularly the present invention is concerned with a portable diagnostic device or analytic instrument that includes a plurality of test modules for analyzing various body fluids of a patient, wherein the modules are coupled to a common display, printer, power supply, and communication ports. The portable diagnostic device interfaces and utilizes disposable cartridges, reagent diagnostic test strips, or other means to determine, for example, a patient's blood pH, p02, pCO~ , Na+, Ca+ , ~ , hematocrit, glucose and/or other parameters including oxygen saturation, coagulation or hemoglobin fractions.
The modules may determine the parameters through a variety of methods such as electrochemical, electrical, optical, or mechanical analysis of a fluid biological sample extracted from the patient: The disposable cartridge may utilize a bank of sensors for the pertinent electroactive species to provide input in the form of analog electrical signals for the relevant determinations.
II. Related Art During clinical, surgical, diagnostic and other medical procedures the measurement of certain physical/chemical characteristics or conditions of the blood and other fluids of a patient are useful in order to evaluate the condition of a patient. For example, a WO 00/~5581 PCT/US99/14699 _2_ patient's blood pH, p02, pC02, Na+, Ca~ø , 1~ , hematocrit, glucose and other parameters including oxygen saturation, coagulation or hemoglobin fractions may be measured. These conditions may provide important indications of the patient's stability including, for example, the efficiency of the bloodJga_~ exchange occurring in the lungs of~the patient, the relative acid/base balance, or the concentration of certain indicative ion species in the blood. Such determinations are particularly useful in emergency circumstances.
In the past, the equipment provided to make~such determinations has typically been complex and permanently installed in a hospital laboratory. Also, the user operating the equipment has been oftentimes required to be a highly-trained. and skilled technician, which thereby increases the cost of operating the equipment and limits the number of potential users. With such equipment, in order to analyze a sample of fluid from the patient, a sample must be drawn from the patient and delivered to the laboratory, avoiding all external contacts.
During the transfer and delivery, the drawn fluids may be kept in clo.ae proximity to ice packs in order to maintain sample integrity. The sample is then injected into a designated receptacle of the diagnostic equipment and the equipment operated to perform the diagnostics on the sample. Tlhis procedure is time consuming, labor intensive, and usually disadvantageous in the operating room, emergency' room or other area of the hospital, or outside the hosp3.ta1 where time is of the essence. Hence, portable deviae~; that reduce the time required to make accurate blood-gas and related determinations, in order that proper and more timely corrective steps may be taken, are highly soughit .
Many situations arise where it is impractical to deliver a patient's fluid sample to a hospital laboratory in order to analyze the patient's blood analytes. It would be desirable for paramedics and in-home health care WO 00/05581 PCT/US99li4699 providers, for example, to analyze a sample at the point of collection without having to first deliver a sample to a hospital laboratory. To this end, it would also be desirable to provide a single portable diagnostic device capable of analyzing simultaneously several samples and/or conducting several. electrochemical, electrical, optical, or mechanical analysis simultaneously or in rapid succession to determine, a patient's blood pH, p02, pG02, Na+, Ga~'+, K+, hematocrit, glucose and other parameters including oxygen saturation, coagulation or hemoglobin fractions.
There have been attempts at point-of-care blood-gas analysis. One on--site analytic device, described by Enzer et al in U.S. Patent 4,786,394, is designed for direct connection to a heart/lung machine to monitor critical blood gases during open-heart surgery. It employs a discardable sensor cartridge which contains a bank of sensors for making the electrochemical determinations. A
further patent to Enzer et al (U. S. Patent 4,397,725) also discloses a clinical blood chemistry analyzer in which a discardable cartridge interfaces with an analytical machine. Although the analyzer may be utilized on-site during surgery, the device disclosed by Enzer remains relatively stationary and immobile. Morris et al in U.S.
Patent 5,325,853 (of common assignment with the present invention) disclose a self-calibrating disposable sensor system.
Carter et al in U.S. Patent 5,628,890 describe an electrochemical sensor for measuring the glucose concentration in a patient's blood. Such a sensor is limited to the particular analyte being measured and requires an interface with an electrochemical sensor.
Stark in U.S. Patent 5,433,197 describes a non-invasive glucose measurement device that requires illumination of the patient's eye with near infrared radiation. The capability of the Stark device is limited to determining blood glucose. Phillips et al in U.S. Patent 5,563,042 describe a device that measures glucose concentration in WO 00/05581 PCTlUS99/14699 whole blood optically using a reflective reading apparatus and a whole blood glucose test strip.
A further reference is contained in U.S. Patent 4,849,340 to Obey°hardt discloses a device that measures coagulation in whole blood using a liquid assay device and method.
Although somewhat useful, such devices are limited in application and address only part of the drawbacks of,prior systems. There remains a need for a rapidly responding, portable blood chemistry analytical device. A need also .exists for a single, portable, self-calibrating, instant activation, rapiat response diagnostic device capable of simultaneous analysis of several samples and/or conducting several electroch~:mical, electrical, optical, or mechanical analysis simultaneously or in rapid succession to determine, blood pH, pot, pCOZ , Na+, Ca++ , I~ , hematocrit, glucose and other parameters including oxygen saturation, coagulation or hemoglobin fractions. The present invention meets these needs and overcomes the disadvantages of prior devices.
!SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present ~Lnvention provides a point-of-care medical analyzer that enables an operator without special training or skills to obtain rapid, accurate blood-gas, glucose, and other analyte determinations at the time and location the sample is drawn. The device is compact, light-weight, easily transported and ready for immediate use. The analyzer is designed for rapid processing of electrical signals generated by electrochemical, electrical, optical, or mechanical sensors of an associated module having both calibration and sample determination modes and utilizing one-time use or disposable cartridges. The modules may be removed from the analytic device and interchanged.
The plug-in disposable electrochemical sensor cartridge which may be similar to that depicted in the above-cited U.S. Patent 5,325,853, the entire contents of which are hereby :i.ncorporated by reference. for any purpose, WO 00/055$1 PCT/US99/14699 employs an array of sensors, typically a bank of aligned sensors an a ceramic chip in a flow-through chamber. The flaw-through chamber, as packaged, further contains a calibration medium retained in situ with respect to corresponding sensors to be calibrated such that when the disposable cartridge is activated in conjunction with insertion into and electrical connection with the analytical device, calibration signals are produced by the sensors on the disposable cartridge which enables immediate automatic calibration of the sensors. The sample may thereafter be introduced through an entry port in a manner which causes the calibration medium to be displaced from the flow-through chamber and replaced by the blood or other fluid sample then in direct contact with the sensors. The array of electrochemical sensors then produces electrical signals in accordance with the characteristics of the sample.
The disposax>le sample cartridge carries a heater in the form of a thin or thick film resistor carried on the sensor chip itself designed to bring the sample quickly to the temperature desired for the analytic determination based on an optical sensor and remote control from within the analytical dE:vice. Such a system is depicted in Hieb et al., U.S. Pate.nt 5,232,667, assigned to the same assignee as the present invention, the entire disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference for any purpose. Once the desired temperature is reached, the electrical signals from the electrochemical sensors are received and processed by the portable analyzer and the results made available on a display and/or in printed form. Other suitable "cartridges"
are used in association with the other modules.
Tt will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the analytical instrument is required to provide only the signal processing systems for calibration and measurement. The remote temperature sensing and control system provided in the portable instrument, for example, _6_ controls only the electric input to a heater located in the disposable cartridge. There is no heating system, per se, in the analytical instrument. The heating control system preferably includes an IR probe or other remote temperature sensing device which is used in association with a programmed control or set point temperature to rapidly establish and maintain the desired temperature in the disposable cartridge. Further details of the temperature control arrangement are contained in the above-referenced patent issued to Hieb et al (5,232,667).
Tn operation, the fully portable analytical instrument is brought to the point of sampling, i.e., the location of the patient. A predetermined number of disposable cartridges are removed from a temperature-stabilized packaging and inserted or plugged into corresponding modules of the analyzer. The instrument is activated; the sensors are calibrated automatically and the calibration electronically compensated with respect to an ensuing set of measurement signals. A sample of interest is obtained from the patient and a portion may immediately be transferred to t:he sample inlet port of the calibrated sensor system on each disposable cartridge. The sample displaces the calibration medium to a storage chamber and avails the electrochemical sensors far an immediate sensing of the corresponding species of interest in the sample.
Other types of sensors including electrochemically active reagent test strips may be exposed to the sample and inserted into a corresponding module.
The user determines the particular needs for testing and determines which modules to attach to the base unit of the immediate response medical analyzer. Plugging the disposable cartridges and inserting relevant sample strips into the respective module of the portable medical analyzer activates the system. The activation of the system also activates the temperature control system which maintains the sensor chip, or equivalent, at the desired calibration and analysis temperature for those determinations that require temperature control. If the sample within the cartridge is at .a different temperature, the temperature control system reacts quickly and controls the sensors to restore the desired temperature to the system. Of course, some determinations, including glucose measurement, do not require temperature control.
After the de~terminatians have achieved equilibrium and the correspondingf signals have been read by the analyzer,.
the analyzer computes the results based on the sensor outputs. The results are made immediately available on a combination touclh screen LCD display and as a printed record using an integral printer. It is anticipated that the entire operation from first insertion of the cartridges and activation of the system until printout of the results, assuming the immediate availability of the sample, can be achieved in less than three minutes. In addition to the rapid availabilivty, the results are also stored by the device in memory for later retrieval by touch screen, printer or to bE: sent via a communications port to an external or remote computer or laboratory.
osJEC~s It is accordingly a principal object of the present invention to provide a portable, rapidly responding, point of-care medical device having several modules capable of independently determining a plurality of predetermined analytes from,a fluid biological sample.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a rapidly responding, portable medical analytical instrument capable of interfacing with several self-contained, self-calibrating, or pre-calibrated, disposable fluid sample devices of varying construction.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a portab~.e sophisticated medical analyzer capable of simplistic user friendly operation.
A further abject of the invention is to provide a self-contained point-of-care blood analyte analyzer capable of instant activation and almost immediate response in WO OOlOSS8I PCTIUS99114699 _g-determining a patient ° s blood pH, p02 ~ pCO2, Na+, Caø+, K' , hematocrit, glucose and other parameters including oxygen saturation, coagulation or hemoglobin fraction.
These and other objects, as well as these and other features and advantages of the present invention will become readily apparent to those skilled in the art from a review of the following detailed description of the illustrated embodiment in conjunction with the accompanying claims and drawings in which like numerals in the several views refer to corresponding parts.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
Figure la is a perspective view of the multiple module portable point°of-care analyzer of the present invention;
Figure 1b is a perspective view of a multiple module similar to the analyzer of Figure 1a with an additional module attached;
Figure 2 is a partially exploded perspective view of the device of Figure 1 showing a module removed;
Figure 3 is a fragmentary, partially exploded, lower perspective view of the device showing a module removed from the analyzer-;
Figure 4 is a partially exploded perspective view of the top section of the device of Figures 1 or 2, without the removed module and including a non-contact temperature Sensor probe and print roll;
Figure 5 is a schematic system block diagram for one embodiment of the multi-module or multiple module portable medical analyzer of the invention;
Figure 6 is an electrical schematic illustrating the connection between a glucose module and the integrated circuit of the analyzer;
Figure 7 is a fragmentary perspective view of a cartridge receptacle interface with a cartridge inserted;
Figure 8 is a perspective view of a disposable cartridge for use: with the analyzer of the invention;
Figure 9 is a schematic diagram of an analog interface subsystem associated with Figure 5;
_g_ Figure 10 is a partially exploded perspective view of an alternate embodiment of the portable point-of-care analyzer of the present invention; and Figures 11-~13 depict schematic block diagrams of examples of modules that interface with each of the modular interface system types depicted in Figure 5.
DETAILED DE&~CRIPTION OF TI~(E PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
The present invention includes a point-of-care and immediate response portable medical analyzer that features automated calibration and analysis for a variety of uses.
The analyzer includes several interchangeable modules that allow the user to analyze several samples or analyze one sample for several predetermined criteria at the point-of-care without extended delays. Thus blood-gas analysis results can be made available to the attending physician, surgeon, or othe~e° health care provider within a minute or two after the drawing of a sample. Moreover, it takes no particular skill to operate the portable medical analyzer inasmuch as both calibration and sample analysis have been automated in conjunction with a unique self-calibrating system. A disposable plug-in cartridge unit interfaces with the medical. analyzing device or a reagant strip is automatically interfaced with an output system. While the illustrated embodiments described below are directed to blood-gas and blood-electrolyte analysis, it will occur to those skilled in the art that these are meant as examples and are in no way intended to introduce limitations to the scope of the invention and that the system can be adapted to other analyses involving blood or other body sera without departing from the essential premises of the invention. It will be appreciated from the views of Figures la-4 that one advantage of the portable analyzer of the invention i.s that it is mechanically simple and eliminates the need for medical personal to transport samples to a plurality of diagnostic analyzers.
With this in mind attention is directed first to Figures la and lb where a portable analytic device in accordance with the present invention is shown generally at 10. The base unit device 10 includes a housing 12, a first permanent module l4, a second removable module 16, a touch screen interactive display 18, a printer 20, and a replaceable power supply 22. The base unit enclosed in the housing 12 also includes an upper section 24 and a lower section 26, and includes a void area to define a handle 28.
An attached removable second module is shown at 16. The first permanent module 14 includes a cartridge receptacle 30 having a pair of guide flange 32 to hold and guide the sides of a disposable cartridge 140 (see Figure 8) into the-receptacle 30. As shown in Figure ib, an additional module 33 which may be interposed between the module 16 and the basic analytical device 10. The embodiment of Figure 1b notably further includes an additional interface section 34 which includes a plug receptacle 35 represents another interface to receive yet another measurement module having an input and output integrated into the basic analytical unit 10.
A remote temperature sensor 36 is positioned in the receptacle 30 (see Figure 4) beneath an opening 37, thereby providing for temperature measurements of the cartridge 140 as further described below. As best seen in connection with Figure 4, the interactive display 18 includes a touch screen with an 8 x 8 grid mask 42 associated with an output LCD window or cover 44 which is fastened beneath an opening 46 in the top housing member 24.
The power supply 22 includes a battery pack, which supplies power through ON-OFF control to the microprocessor, cartridge interface and the touch screen 18. Common voltages are supplied as needed within the processing circuitry through a variety of voltage converters which also supply the liquid crystal display bias and the back lighting for the touch screen 18. This system is considered conventional to those skilled in the art, and further explanation is believed unnecessary.
Module 16 is a glucose meter that includes a receptacle 48 for insertion of a test strip. Without any limitation intended, the module 16 may utilize, for example, the motherboard and test receptacle of a SURESTEP
glucose. meter available from Lifescan, Inc. Milipitis, California. The motherboard and test strip receptacle are mounted to the module and are electrically coupled to a connector that interconnects a communication line and power supply to the internal electrical components contained within housing 12. A relay and control line may be added to allow control of the power supplied to the module 16.
'Module 33 may be capable of performing a coagulation assay such as PT (prothrombin time), PTT (activated partial thrombo-plastin time) or ACT (activated clotting time).
This module may measure whole blood coagulation time and includes a system for receiving a liquid sample into a reaction chamber containing a reagent material which reacts with the sample t:o perform the detmination. The reaction can be monitored optically to determine the assay time.
Such a system is illustrated and described in I1.S. Patent 4,849,340 to Oberhardt, the details of which are deemed incorporated by reference herein far any purpose. The output signals from that module are digitized and processed within the module itself prior to being communicated to the base unit.
Those skilled in the art will appreciate that modules 14, 16 and 33 may be different sensors of suitable construction or additional examples include modified slightly to interface with electrical components of the present invention. Optionally, additional modular units may be added in stacked or separate arrangements. The appropriate interconnects including communication and power supply links can be provided as direct plug-in linkages from the base unit and through other sensor modules.
Without any limitation intended, dedicated removable sensor modules may include a visible light sensing device that makes co-oximetry measurements such as total hemoglobin concentrations (tHb), oxyhemoglobin (02Hb), carboxyhemoglobin (COHb) and methemoglobin (MetHb) of a blood sample contained in a cartridge or cuvette may be mounted in a module and interconnected with the present invention. Modules of this type are available from AV4X
Systems Incorporated of San Antonio, Texas. Those skilled in the art wild appreciate 'that the mother board and optical bench of such a sensor may be removed and electrically .connected within the housing 12 of the analytic device :10. An external connector may be used to interconnect the sensor module's communication lines and power supply to the device 10. A relay with one control line may be added to allow control over the module by the device 10. Also, the controlling software may be modified to allow control of the module via the device 10.
Figures 2 and 3 illustrate the removeability of the second module 16. The module 16 locks onto the housing 12 (Figure la) may utilize a male and female quick release lock of known suitable construction. When the module 16 is locked in place, the electrical contacts 38 of the module engage with the electrical contacts 40 protruding from the housing 12. Those skilled in the art, will appreciate that a plurality of electrical contacts may be utilized to form a serial port or other electrical connection of known suitable construcaion to thereby interconnect the internal electrical components of the module 16 with an integrated circuit and central processing unit (CPU) contained within the housing 12. The module 16 includes a receptacle 48 adapted for receiving a diagnostic test strip or electrochemical sensor of known suitable construction. The module 33 of Figure 1b attaches to the housing 12 in a similar manner and includes pass-through interfaces and housing lock system to accommodate the module 16 in a piggyback or tandem stacked arrangement. Note that module 33 also has a further plug receptacle 35a situated to accommodate yet annother modular sensor.
In accordance with the operation of the portable medical analyzer of the invention, a typical operating system is shown in block diagram in Figure 5. Additional details of subsy,atems are illustrated in Figures 6 and 9.
The interface of module 16 with the integrated circuit contained within housing 12 is depicted in Figure 6 and the analog interface system is depicted in Figure 8.
Additional information can be gleaned with reference to the schematic block diagram of Figure 5. The system is operated by a programmed central processing unit 70 which operates in conjunction with a voltage controlled oscillator 72, real-time clock 74 with associated non-volatile random access memory (novram) 76 random access memory (RAM) 78 and erasable programmable read only memory (EPROM) 80. The system further includes a communication integrated circuit 82 (RS232 with interface 84 and a typical circuit connector 86). Also included is an interface 88 for the interactive touch screen display 18.
A printer interface 90 for printer output and LCD interface 92 are also shown. Various switches and an alarm or beeper device 94 are connected through a bit output device at 96.
An analog interface 98 interconnects the heater system 100, sensor interface 102 and module interfaces 104-110. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that additional module interfaces 112-1:16 may be interconnected with integrated circuit 82 via a multiplexor 118. Additionally, module interfaces 120-124 may be directly connected to the central processing unit 70. In this manner, those skilled in the art will appreciate that a variety of modules having various processing components may be rendered compatible with the present portable device l0.
For example, Figure 6 shows a glucose measuring module of common known construction electrically coupled to an immediate response medical analyzer (IRMA). Figure il depicts a typical module of a class designed to interface with the instrument 10 through any of interface modules and may include a C1~U 150 cannected to the module interface through a serial input/output device. The module further typically includes a sensor interface 154 with associated measurement circuitry 156 signal conditioning system 158 and A/D signal converter 160. A CPU controlled DAC signal generator 162 provides an analog interface with a temperature control system and sensor interface 154. The module depicted in Figure 12 is of a class that are designed to connect to a module interface through a multiplexer and communication IC as at 118 and 82. This includes any of the module interfaces 112, 116. It will be appreciated that the modules 16 and 33 are compatable with this type of interface. Figure 13 depicts yet another type of connected device compatable with the module interfaces 104- 110.
With respect. to Figure 9, it will be appreciated that once the disposable cartridge _i.s plugged into the analyzer and the analyzer is turned on, calibration signals are almost immediately available on a clock controlled or prioritized channel selective interface bus as at 130 such that by employing a serial clock, the serially obtained data available on the bus 130 can be processed by a serial to parallel converter 132 interfacing with the central processing unit 70 to sort out the multiple signals being received from A-to-D converters 134-142. Corrective data where applicable and reference measurements are provided via the A-to-D converter 142 from a multiplexer channel control 244 that receives input from a variety of sources including barometric pressure sensor, temperature, reference electrode signals and an oxygen bias signal, if used, from the sensor interface 102. The clock controlled CPU interfaces with both the multiplexer channel control and the remaining electrochemical sensors via the serial to parallel converi:er in a manner which uses the signals together with the available calibration condition data from the multiplexer via A-to-D converter 142 to accurately calibrate each of: the species sensors for subsequent use in making a determination in the sample.
It will be appreciated that in this manner, each disposable cartridge is automatically individually calibrated with respect to the measurements to be made once connected to the analyzer and activated. Determination of each sample is then made pursuant to an individualized calibration based on the disposable cartridge itself and not based on calibration of any of the components in the portable analytical device.
Figure 8 depicts a perspective view of the disposable cartridge 34 designed for use in association with the medical analyzer 10 of the invention. The cartridge 34 includes a substantially planar base member or plate 146 and a housing 148 fixed to the base member 146. One end of the cartridge is :Formed to include a handle with a gripping flange 150 to obtain a better grasp of the cartridge 34.
Side flange members 152 extend from the sides of the planar base and slide under guide flanges 32 of the cartridge receptacle 30. Figure 7 shows the cartridge 34 aligned and engaged with receptacle 30 and having an infection syringe 154 positioned to introduce a sample into a sample port 156.
The cartridge is further provided with an array of electrical leads or terminals as at 158 configured to connect with corresponding terminals in the analytical instrument cooperating in the exchange of electrical signals between the analytical instrument and cartridge in a well-known manner. These terminals connect to corresponding conductors (not shown) of the receptacle 30 which provide all necessary input and output connections to control the functions and transmit the necessary signals between the cartridge and the analytical instrument. The cartridge housing 148 further defines a flow-through analytical cell chamber or volume containing an array of electrochemical sensors 3.60-168 connected to a relatively larger waste receptacle chamber 170. The cartridge waste volume 170 includes a retention maze in the form of a plurality of partitions as at 172. As recognized above, the cartridge and module 14 are described in greater detail in U.S. Patent 5,325,853, the entire disclosure of which has been incorporated herein by reference.
An alternate: embodiment of the portable device 10 is shown~generally at 200 in Figure 10. The device is adapted for receiving a cassette 202 in which is electrically integrated a plurality of testing modules 204-208. The cassette 202 is provided with a cover that engages with the base of cassette 202. A rechargeable, replaceable battery pack 212 is shown elevated above the portable device 200.
The device 200 also includes an interactive display 214 and printer 216. The cassette 202 includes electrical connectors that electrically interconnect each module 204-208 with the electrical components contained within the device 200 (including a central processing unit arid integrated circuit). The modules 204-208 may be removed from the cassette 202 and are interchangeable. In this manner, the user may either analyze several samples using similar modules or may select different modules to perform varying analysis and diagnostics of a single sample.
This invention has been described herein in considerable detail in order to comply with the Patent Statutes and to provide those skilled in the art with the information needed to apply the novel principles and to construct and use embodiments of the example as required.
However, it is to be understood that the invention can be carried out by specifically different devices and that various modifications can be accomplished without departing from the scope of the invention itself.
What is claimed is:
Claims (21)
1. A portable point of care medical analyzer that enables an operator to rapidly obtain results for a plurality of diverse analyses, said analyzer comprising:
(a) a base unit having a main CPU and including signal processing devices and circuitry for rapid processing of electrical signals generated by electrical, electrochemical, optical or mechanical sensors of one or more associated analytical modules;
(b) at least one permanent analytical module integral with said base unit which includes a disposable test device having electrochemical sensors for making a plurality of determinations characteristic of a fluid serum sample;
(c) one or more types of module interface units for connecting and interfacing between one or more removable analytical module units and said base unit;
(d) one or more dedicated removable analytical module units for making specific determinations and which are designed to be plugged into said base unit and connect electrically to a specific type of modular interface unit;
(e) wherein the combination of said base unit signal processing devices and circuitry and said module interface units enables direct utilization of the output signals from each of said removable modules; and (f) common output devices in said base unit for providing visual or printed display of determinations from all modules.
(a) a base unit having a main CPU and including signal processing devices and circuitry for rapid processing of electrical signals generated by electrical, electrochemical, optical or mechanical sensors of one or more associated analytical modules;
(b) at least one permanent analytical module integral with said base unit which includes a disposable test device having electrochemical sensors for making a plurality of determinations characteristic of a fluid serum sample;
(c) one or more types of module interface units for connecting and interfacing between one or more removable analytical module units and said base unit;
(d) one or more dedicated removable analytical module units for making specific determinations and which are designed to be plugged into said base unit and connect electrically to a specific type of modular interface unit;
(e) wherein the combination of said base unit signal processing devices and circuitry and said module interface units enables direct utilization of the output signals from each of said removable modules; and (f) common output devices in said base unit for providing visual or printed display of determinations from all modules.
2. A device as in claim 1 wherein at least one of said removable analytical modules also makes a determination which utilizes a disposable test device.
3. A device as in claim 2 wherein said disposable test device is a test strip.
4. A device as in claim 2 wherein said one or more removable analytical modules include a glucose meter.
5. A device as in claim 3 wherein said test strip is used in a glucose meter.
6. A device as in claim 1 wherein at least one module interface unit is connected to a communications IC.
7. A device as in claim 6 wherein said one or more removable analytical modules include a glucose meter.
8. A device as in claim 6 wherein said one or more removable analytical modules include a prothrombic time assay module for performing general coagulation measurements.
9. A device as in claim 6 including a plurality of module interface units connected through a multiplexer to said communications IC.
10. A device as in claim 1 wherein at least one module interface unit is connected directly with said main CPU of said base unit.
11. A device as in claim 1 wherein at least one module interface unit is connected to said main CPU of said base unit through an analog interface.
12. A device as in claim 1 wherein said one or more removable analytical modules include a module for performing general coagulation measurements.
13. A device as in claim 12 wherein said general coagulation measurements include prothrombin time (PT), activated partial thrombo-plastin time (PTT) and activated clotting time (ACT).
14. A device as in claim 1 wherein said one or more dedicated removable analytical modules include a visible light sensing device that makes co-oximetry measurements.
15. A device as in claim 14 wherein said co-oximetry measurements include total hemoglobin concentrations (tHb), oxyhemoglobin (O2HB), carboxyhemoglobin (COHb) and methemoglobin (MetHb).
16. A portable point of care medical analyzer that enables an operator to rapidly obtain results for a plurality of diverse analyses, said analyzer comprising:
(a) a base unit having a main CPU and including signal processing devices and circuitry for rapid processing of electrical signals generated by electrical, electrochemical, optical or mechanical sensors of one or more associated analytical modules;
(b) at least one permanent analytical module integral with said base unit including a disposable test cartridge having electrochemical sensors for making a plurality of determinations characteristic of a fluid serum sample;
(c) one or more types of module interface units for connecting and interfacing between one or more removable analytical module units and said base unit;
(d) one or more dedicated removable analytical module units for making specific determinations and which are designed to plug into said base unit and connect electrically to a specific type of modular interface unit;
(e) wherein the combination of said base unit signal processing devices and circuitry and said module interface unit enables direct utilization of the output signals from each of said removable modules;
(f) common output: devices in said base unit for providing visual or printed display of determinations from all modules; and (g) wherein at least one removable analytical module is designed to attach to another removable analytical module in a :tacked arrangement in a manner such that both removable modules connect to a module interface unit.
(a) a base unit having a main CPU and including signal processing devices and circuitry for rapid processing of electrical signals generated by electrical, electrochemical, optical or mechanical sensors of one or more associated analytical modules;
(b) at least one permanent analytical module integral with said base unit including a disposable test cartridge having electrochemical sensors for making a plurality of determinations characteristic of a fluid serum sample;
(c) one or more types of module interface units for connecting and interfacing between one or more removable analytical module units and said base unit;
(d) one or more dedicated removable analytical module units for making specific determinations and which are designed to plug into said base unit and connect electrically to a specific type of modular interface unit;
(e) wherein the combination of said base unit signal processing devices and circuitry and said module interface unit enables direct utilization of the output signals from each of said removable modules;
(f) common output: devices in said base unit for providing visual or printed display of determinations from all modules; and (g) wherein at least one removable analytical module is designed to attach to another removable analytical module in a :tacked arrangement in a manner such that both removable modules connect to a module interface unit.
17. A device as in claim 16 wherein at least one module interface unit is connected through a multiplexes to a communications IC.
18. A device as in claim 16 wherein at least one module interface unit is connected directly with said main CPU of said base unit.
19. A device as in claim 16 wherein at least one module interface unit is connected to said main CPU of said base unit through an analog interface.
20. A device as in claim 16 wherein said one or more removable analytical modules include a glucose meter.
21. A device as in claim 16 comprising a removable glucose meter mounted from a prothrombic time assay module.
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