摘要:
A hospital bed supported on a wheeled base, and a ventilator supported on a wheeled cart and docked to the base of the bed, the combination of ventilator and bed capable of being rolled as a single unit. The ventilator cart includes a wheeled base, and supports connected to the base for supporting a ventilator, with the supports providing for selective raising and lowering of the ventilator. The hospital bed base is wheeled and has a generally Y-shaped base frame. The outspread arms of the Y-shaped base frame receive the ventilator cart so that the two may be docked together. The ventilator when docked to the hospital bed base falls within the footprint of the bed as projected downwardly onto the floor. A latch secures the ventilator to the bed base. A disabling switch disables the high/low function of the bed preventing the bed from being lowered downwardly onto the ventilator. A power supply mounted to the bed base provides for uninterrupted operation of the ventilator. A care cart docks to the foot end of the bed and within the bed's footprint and supplies DC electricity, oxygen and air to the ventilator when the ventilator is docked to the head end of the bed. The care cart has a wheeled base, a battery housing on the base, a structure for connecting the cart to the bed base. A motorized dolley is incorporated into another embodiment of the care cart to provide motorized transport of ventilator, bed and cart.
摘要:
A hospital bed that is convertible to a chair for patient egress from the foot end of the bed. A patient support platform has serially hinged, normally horizontal head, seat, thigh and foot panels. To convert the horizontal bed to the chair configuration, the patient support platform in the lowermost vertical position is translated longitudinally toward the foot end of the bed. The head panel is pivoted upwardly and the foot panel pivots downwardly to a generally vertical attitude. The foot panel includes a collapsing portion which telescopes into a pivoting portion to thereby avoid interference with the floor as the foot panel is pivoted to a vertical attitude. When converted to the chair configuration, an area is vacated at the foot end of the bed to provide a space for docking a wheelchair or other ambulatory assisting device. The patient's feet rest directly on the floor in the chair configuration in that the foot panel collapses into itself as it pivots downwardly rather than pivoting along a second axis to underlie the patient's feet. Another embodiment includes a leg panel including a downwardly pivoting calf panel and a foot panel pivotally connected to a foot end of the calf panel. First and second links connect the calf and foot panels, respectively, to the frame. When the patient support moves longitudinally, the first link moves the calf panel to a generally vertical position and the second link moves the foot panel to a position aft of and against the calf panel. A foam mattress overlies the leg panel and is compressed by the action of the calf and foot panels.
摘要:
A power column is a hollow post having six vertical walls and is mounted between horizontal arms pivoted to the floor and ceiling respectively. The pivotal axis for the arms passes through the head end of a hospital bed, enabling the power column to swing from one side of the bed to the other. The electrical outlets are on two walls separated by a front wall so that one or the other of the walls is easily accessible whether the power column is on either side of the bed. Lateral horizontal rails are pivotably mounted on either side of the column. The height of the rails is adjustable. The rails contain one or more gas outlets which are laterally adjustable on the rail and can carry other accessories that are laterally adjustable. The other accessories which can be mounted on the rail include a shelf and a saddle basket each of which are clipped onto the rail and mounted in a cantilever manner. Additionally, a storage basket can be suspended from the rail and clipped to the underside thereof. The position of the rail is adjustable and a knuckle-type joint connecting the rail to a pole mounted on either side of the column has a groove into which the hose for feeding the gas outlet is seated. The knuckle joint permits the hose to pay in and out as the rail and attached gas outlet are re-positioned. The pole is mounted for both pivotal and vertical movement relative to the column.
摘要:
A hospital bed which is convertible to a chair configuration has a serially hinged normally horizontal head panel, seat panel, thigh panel and foot panel. The foot panel has a central section and a wing section longitudinally pivoted on each lateral side of the central section. To convert the horizontal bed to the chair configuration the head panel is pivoted upwardly and the foot panel pivots downwardly between parallel rail members of the bed frame. The hinged intersection of the foot panel and the thigh panel pivots upwardly to support the patient's knees. Through sliding contact with rail members of the bed frame each wing section pivots upwardly in response to the downward movement of the central section of the foot panel. With the foot end of the foot panel pivoted downwardly between the rails of the bed frame and the head end of the foot panel pivoted upwardly to support the patient's knees and the head panel pivoted upwardly to support the patient's back, the hospital bed is converted to a chair configuration.
摘要:
A hospital bed supported on a wheeled base, and a ventilator supported on a wheeled cart and docked to the base of the bed, the combination of ventilator and bed capable of being rolled as a single unit. The ventilator cart includes a wheeled base, and supports connected to the base for supporting a ventilator, with the supports providing for selective raising and lowering of the ventilator. The hospital bed base is wheeled and has a generally Y-shaped base frame. The outspread arms of the Y-shaped base frame receive the ventilator cart so that the two may be docked together. The ventilator when docked to the hospital bed base falls within the footprint of the bed as projected downwardly onto the floor. A latch secures the ventilator to the bed base. A disabling switch disables the high/low function of the bed preventing the bed from being lowered downwardly onto the ventilator. A power supply mounted to the bed base provides for uninterrupted operation of the ventilator. A care cart docks to the foot end of the bed and within the bed's footprint and supplies DC electricity, oxygen and air to the ventilator when the ventilator is docked to the head end of the bed. The care cart has a wheeled base, a battery housing on the base, a support frame for supporting air and oxygen tanks and structure for connecting the cart to the bed base. A motorized dolley is incorporated into another embodiment of the care cart to provide motorized transport of ventilator, bed and cart.
摘要:
A modular hospital bed and method of patient handling which permits a patient to remain on a single hospital bed from admittance to and through discharge from a hospital, thereby reducing the number of patient bed surface-to-surface transfers and the number of hospital beds. The method comprises providing a plurality of rollable modular beds, assigning a patient to one of the modular beds upon admittance to a hospital emergency room, providing a plurality of retrofittable modules for selective removable securement to the modular beds, with at least one module being provided from each of a patient transport module group, critical care module group and ambulatory/rehabilitation module group, and transforming the one modular bed as the patient is treated in and transferred from the emergency room and transferred to, treated in, and transferred from the surgery room, the critical care unit and the med/surg unit, and finally discharged, by securing to and removing from the one bed selected ones of the retrofittable modules thereby tailoring the one bed to the needs of the patient at any point from admittance to through discharge from the hospital.
摘要:
A mattress has an upper patient supporting low air loss bladder for ventilating and preventing skin degeneration of a patient supported thereby, an intermediate rigidly inflatable static bladder which becomes relatively rigid upon inflation to aid in transferring or weighing a patient, and a lower high air loss bladder for reducing the friction force between the mattress and the supporting surface to facilitate surface-to-surface transfers. The high air loss bladder includes a peripheral tube which seals against a supporting surface to contain the air which escapes from longitudinal sacks within the tube. The foot sections of the low air loss and static bladders are selectively deflatable.
摘要:
A hospital bed that is convertible to a chair for patient egress from the foot end of the bed. A patient support platform has serially hinged, normally horizontal head, seat, thigh and foot panels. To convert the horizontal bed to the chair configuration, the patient support platform in the lowermost vertical position is translated longitudinally toward the foot end of the bed. The head panel is pivoted upwardly and the foot panel pivots downwardly to a generally vertical attitude. The foot panel includes a collapsing portion which telescopes into a pivoting portion to thereby avoid interference with the floor as the foot panel is pivoted to a vertical attitude. When converted to the chair configuration, an area is vacated at the foot end of the bed to provide a space for docking a wheelchair or other ambulatory assisting device. The patient's feet rest directly on the floor in the chair configuration in that the foot panel collapses into itself as it pivots downwardly rather than pivoting along a second axis to underlie the patient's feet.
摘要:
A hospital bed has a frame mounted on a base which includes castors. Side guards are mounted on the bed frame. The side guards are inwardly moveable and releasably lockable to narrow the hospital bed. The frame has a cam block with a recess. A latching arm is pivotally connected to linkage connecting the side guard to the frame and has a handle and a cam roller follower. The handle is rotated to move the side guard inwardly; when the roller follower engages the recess the side guard is locked in the inward position. The side guards are moveable and releasably lockable toward the foot end of the bed. A spring biased plunger on the linkage projects through a hole in a plate on the linkage. The side guards are releasably lockable in an intermediate position. The spring biased plunger projects through a hole in the cam block.