RODRIGUES, S. A.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/5027140030535720; RODRIGUES, Sidney Aciole.
Abstract:
According to the Food and Drug Administration - FDA, infusion pumps are currently
considered the most safety-critical medical device due to the nature of their operations
and associated risks. Design of these devices is still an open question and several
improvement initiatives are under research. However, the released specifications of such
systems are not yet adapted to the current state-of-art systems architectural developments.
For example, in this work, we could not identify any project meeting the patterns of views
and viewpoints for specification and documentation of system and software architectures
during the engineering process. Due to this, this dissertation proposes a functional
specification of an architecture for infusion pumps that can be realized through several
technological trends for these products in order to improve safety. The presented
architectural specification was validated by the development of a multichannel prototype
of an infusion pump that can be programmed through data retrieved from a web service
using a mobile application as a remote control and changing the infusion parameters
according to medical prescription. Thus, the main contribution of this paper can be
presented as a distributed architecture for this sort of device, allowing early integration
with Electronic Health Records for the embedded systems domain implying in risk
reductions during the programming activity.