GUARDRAILS

Medical instruments that monitor the delivery of medication to a patient, that store medication delivery parameters, including drug names, drug conflicts, flow rates, dosages, volumes, delivery time periods, patient physiological parameters, vital signs parameters, and that monitor medication delivery parameters selected by a care giver, and that compare the medication delivery parameters selected by a care giver to stored medication delivery parameters, and that provide display data based on the comparison, namely, medication delivery monitors, infusion pumps, syringe pumps, programmable infusion pumps, programmable syringe pumps and the resident control programs therein