Intravenous drip feed monitor

Claim 1

Intravenous monitor apparatus for use with an intravenous pole stand supporting an intravenous solution container having a drip chamber and a drip tube extending downwardly therefrom, comprising: a mounting bracket including means for releasably securing said bracket to said intravenous pole stand for vertical adjustment thereon, and having horizontally elongated guide means integral therewith; a horizontal bar slidably supported within said elongated guide means and longitudinally adjustable therein, said bar including means thereon remote from said mounting bracket for restrainably engaging a segment of said drip tube at a desired horizontal distance from said pole stand below said drip chamber, and releasable retention means on said bracket holding said bar in said elongated guide means; means positioned in proximity to said drip chamber for sensing each intravenous drip and generating a signal in response to each drip; and an intravenous monitor in a housing affixed to said bracket and including circuit means within said housing electrically connected to said drip sensing means and operative to process said signals, and means within said monitor housing connected to said circuit means for visual display numerically of the drip rate as counted by said signal processing means, whereby said bracket vertically positions said intravenous monitor on said intravenous pole stand and said adjustable horizontal bar engaged through said bracket provides for substantial vertical orientation of said drip chamber, thereby providing for accuracy of said visually displayed drip rate.