Remote control for a hospital bed
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1. A system for remotely servicing a patient associated with a bed, comprising:
- a badge that transmits an identification signal that identifies a caregiver associated with the badge;
a remote control comprising an input device that receives input from the caregiver, and a transmitter that transmits control signals based upon the input received from the caregiver;
a receiver associated with the bed that receives the caregiver identification signal from the badge and the control signals from the remote control; and
a control unit that controls operation of the bed and that responds to control signals received from the remote control only if the receiver associated with the hospital bed has received the caregiver identification signal from the badge associated with the caregiver.
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Abstract
A remote control system includes beds, remote controls, and a master station in communication with the beds and the remote controls. Each bed is adapted to receive requests from a patient associated with the bed, and each remote control is adapted to present requests to a caregiver associated with the remote control. The master station is adapted to receive a nurse call request from a patient via a bed, to identify a remote control that is associated with a caregiver for the patient, and to transmit the nurse call request to the remote control identified as being associated with the caregiver for the patient.
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33 Claims
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1. A system for remotely servicing a patient associated with a bed, comprising:
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a badge that transmits an identification signal that identifies a caregiver associated with the badge;
a remote control comprising an input device that receives input from the caregiver, and a transmitter that transmits control signals based upon the input received from the caregiver;
a receiver associated with the bed that receives the caregiver identification signal from the badge and the control signals from the remote control; and
a control unit that controls operation of the bed and that responds to control signals received from the remote control only if the receiver associated with the hospital bed has received the caregiver identification signal from the badge associated with the caregiver. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A remote control system, comprising:
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a plurality of beds, each bed adapted to receive requests from a patient associated with the bed;
a plurality of remote controls, each remote control adapted to present requests to a caregiver associated with the remote control; and
a master station in communication with the plurality of beds and the plurality of remote controls, the master station adapted to receive a nurse call request from a patient via a bed of the plurality of beds, to identify a remote control of the plurality of remote controls that is associated with the caregiver for the patient, and to transmit the nurse call request to the remote control identified as being associated with the caregiver for the patient. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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17. For use in a facility comprising a plurality of rooms, a locating and tracking system comprising a plurality of transceivers, and a plurality of beds in communication with the locating and tracking system, a remote control, comprising
an input device via which a caregiver selects a bed of the plurality of beds that is in a different room of the facility than the caregiver and via which the caregiver requests information from the selected bed; -
a transceiver that transmits a request to the selected bed via at least one of the plurality of transceivers of the locating and tracking system in response to the input device receiving the request from the caregiver, and that receives information from the selected bed via at least one of the plurality of transceivers in response to the selected bed receiving the request; and
an output device that presents the information received from the selected bed to the caregiver.
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25. For use in a facility comprising a plurality of rooms, a locating and tracking system comprising a plurality of transceivers and a master station, and a plurality of beds in communication with the master station that is adapted to determine location of caregivers based upon identification signals received from the plurality of transceivers and to identify the caregiver assigned to care for a patient associated with a bed of the plurality of beds, a remote control, comprising
a transmitter that transmits to the master station via at least one of the plurality transceivers an identification signal that identifies a caregiver associated with the remote control; -
a receiver that receives via at least one of the plurality of transceivers an alarm condition that the master station has routed to the caregiver from a bed in a different room than the caregiver in response to determining that the caregiver is assigned to care for the patient associated with the bed, and an output device that presents the alarm condition to the caregiver.
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29. A system for remotely servicing a patient associated with a bed, comprising:
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a transmitter associated with the bed that transmits a bed identification signal that identifies the bed;
a remote control comprising an input device that receives input from the caregiver, a receiver that receives the bed identification signal, and a transmitter that transmits control signals based upon the input received from the caregiver and the bed identification signal received by the remote control; and
a control unit that controls operation of the bed and that responds to control signals received from the remote control only if the transmitter of the remote control transmitted the control signals based upon the bed identification signal that identifies the bed.
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