Monitoring of patient supports

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2021321908-A1
Application number	US-202117360382-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jun 28, 2021
Priority date	Apr 14, 2015
Publication date	Oct 21, 2021
Grant date	—

Abstract

A hospital bed is configured to monitor data from a second patient support based on the one or more alarms set by the user. The hospital bed detects whether an alarm triggering event occurred based on the monitored data. In response to a determination that the alarm triggering event occurred, the hospital bed will provide a signal indicative of the alarm triggering event to a nurse call system.

First claim

1 . A system for use in a healthcare facility, the system comprising:
a chair having a first patient detector operable to detect the presence or absence of a patient on the chair, a bed spaced from the chair and having a second patient detector operable to detect the presence or absence of a patient on the bed, the bed including a display operable to render a graphical user interface (GUI) to interface with a user and allow the user to turn on and off monitoring by the first patient detector and to turn on and off monitoring by the second patient detector of the patient's presence or absence; communication circuitry on the bed to communicatively couple the bed to a healthcare communication system and to communicatively couple the bed to the chair; and a control system on the bed that monitors whether the communication circuitry has received a chair exit alarm signal from the first patient detector indicating that the patient is absent from the chair and if so, commanding the communication circuitry to send a message to the healthcare communication system indicative of the patient's absence from the chair.

Assignees

• Hill Rom Services Inc

Inventors

• Hood Michael S
• Ribble David L
• Heimbrock Richard H
• Zerhusen Robert M
• Lanning Karen
• Emmons Kirsten M
• Brinkman Mary K

Classifications

• G08B21/043

  detecting an emergency event, e.g. a fall · CPC title

• A61B5/002

  Monitoring the patient using a local or closed circuit, e.g. in a room or building (A61B5/0017 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G16H40/67

  for remote operation · CPC title

• A61B5/6891

  Furniture · CPC title

• A61B5/7435

  Displaying user selection data, e.g. icons in a graphical user interface · CPC title