Interface for medical infusion pump

1. A method of programming a medical infusion pump with a protocol, the method comprising:

providing a protocol including one or more patient specific pump parameters that define one or more operational aspects of the medical infusion pump;

providing a user interface configured to allow user adjustment of at least one of the one or more patient specific pump parameters;

uploading the protocol into the medical infusion pump.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising providing one or more non-patient specific pump parameters.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the user interface does not display the one or more non-patient specific pump parameters.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein providing the user interface includes displaying an adjustable slider bar for the at least one patient specific pump parameter.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising formatting the protocol to correspond to the format understood by the medical infusion pump.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising displaying the user interface on a computing system associated with the medical infusion pump.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising displaying the user interface on a display of the medical infusion pump.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein displaying the user interface includes displaying one or more non-adjustable patient specific pump parameters.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more patient specific pump parameters is selected from the group consisting of:

drug delivery rate;

drug capacity;

demand dose;

demand dose lockout;

bolus level;

bolus occurrence;

delivery period.