Patient care and transport assembly
First Claim
1. A patient support, transport and diagnostic assembly, comprising:
- a base having a three dimensional body with an upper surface, a plurality of rollers adapted to support said base upon a floor location;
said base including a pair of rails extending along parallel longitudinal axes and in a plane parallel to the upper surface of the base, said rails supporting a propulsion unit for enabling traversal of said base and rollers upon a surface;
said propulsion unit including a top turntable plate displaceable along said rails, an outer plate rotatably secured to said turntable plate, a drive housing suspended from said outer plate and including a pair of end supported drive wheels for rotating said drive housing and drive wheels relative to said top turntable plate in addition to said propulsion unit driving said base from any linear adjustable position along said rails;
a plurality of powered and processor supported components incorporated into said base and including each of an electronic control unit, a central processing unit, and a battery system;
first and second pairs of extensible supports extending from said base, in engagement with locations of a patient support for supporting and vertically adjusting said frame between an uppermost displaced height and a lowermost height in which an underside of said frame is in contact with said upper surface of said base;
said pairs of extensible supports being manipulated in varying combinations for additionally providing tilting to said patient support frame;
a plurality of patient support cushion sections collectively arranged upon an upper support surface of said patient support frame, each further including a mounting plate supporting a plurality of individually mounted and vertically displaceable sensors, a cushion member through which are formed a plurality of apertures securing over said mounting plate;
so that end-most portions of said sensors align with and project through said apertures; and
said sensors being in independent communication with said central processing unit for monitoring of patient vitals, said processing unit providing output signals to said sensors for adjusting a bias exerted by each sensor to a patient supported upon said cushion sections for providing varied therapeutic features for reducing muscle atrophy and bed sores while increasing blood circulation.
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Abstract
A versatile patient care and transport assembly having a patient support frame constructed of multiple sections, each including pluralities of individual patient sensors, and which can be cooperatively tilted or otherwise inter-articulated to a variety of support positions. Pull-out/expandable side and end railings are provided for patient safety. Power and drive components are incorporated into a base module upon which the patient support module is mounted in multiple elevatable and/or articulating fashion. Also provided is paired side-by-side docking of two identical assemblies such as for facilitate patient transfer and in order to drastically reduce the risks associated with handling of patients by caregivers.
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1. A patient support, transport and diagnostic assembly, comprising:
- a base having a three dimensional body with an upper surface, a plurality of rollers adapted to support said base upon a floor location;
said base including a pair of rails extending along parallel longitudinal axes and in a plane parallel to the upper surface of the base, said rails supporting a propulsion unit for enabling traversal of said base and rollers upon a surface;
said propulsion unit including a top turntable plate displaceable along said rails, an outer plate rotatably secured to said turntable plate, a drive housing suspended from said outer plate and including a pair of end supported drive wheels for rotating said drive housing and drive wheels relative to said top turntable plate in addition to said propulsion unit driving said base from any linear adjustable position along said rails;
a plurality of powered and processor supported components incorporated into said base and including each of an electronic control unit, a central processing unit, and a battery system;
first and second pairs of extensible supports extending from said base, in engagement with locations of a patient support for supporting and vertically adjusting said frame between an uppermost displaced height and a lowermost height in which an underside of said frame is in contact with said upper surface of said base;
said pairs of extensible supports being manipulated in varying combinations for additionally providing tilting to said patient support frame;
a plurality of patient support cushion sections collectively arranged upon an upper support surface of said patient support frame, each further including a mounting plate supporting a plurality of individually mounted and vertically displaceable sensors, a cushion member through which are formed a plurality of apertures securing over said mounting plate;
so that end-most portions of said sensors align with and project through said apertures; and
said sensors being in independent communication with said central processing unit for monitoring of patient vitals, said processing unit providing output signals to said sensors for adjusting a bias exerted by each sensor to a patient supported upon said cushion sections for providing varied therapeutic features for reducing muscle atrophy and bed sores while increasing blood circulation. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
- a base having a three dimensional body with an upper surface, a plurality of rollers adapted to support said base upon a floor location;
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