PATIENT CARE UNIT WITH A RECLINING SURFACE

• US 20080295836A1
• Filed: 05/29/2008
• Published: 12/04/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dragerwerk AG & Company KGaA (FPS Vermögensverwaltung GmbH)
• Original Assignee: Drager Medical AG & Co KG (Dragerwerk AG)
• Inventors: GERDER, Henning, HANSMANN, Hans-Ulrich, SCHERMEIER, Olaf
• Granted Patent: US 8,353,288 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 128/204.18
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0214 of power generation or supply
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 15/00 Inhalators drug delivery in endotracheal tubes A61M16/04
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 16/0051 with alarm devices
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 16/021 operated by electrical means A61M16/202 – A61M16/205 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 16/08 Bellows; Connecting tubes having means for taking samples G01N1/22; Water traps; Patient circuits
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3569 sublocal, e.g. between console and disposable
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3592 using telemetric means, e.g. radio or optical transmission
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/8262 connectable to external power source, e.g. connecting to automobile battery through the cigarette lighter
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2209/086 Docking stations

Abstract

A patient care unit (1) with a reclining surface has one or more docking devices designed as inductive coupling sites (7) for medical technical devices (10, 11, 12), which consume electrical energy and can be connected to the patient care unit. The inductive coupling sites (7) also supply the patient care unit (1) with electrical energy by means of an external line connection, which is likewise coupled inductively with the patient care unit (1).

Claims

1. A patient system comprising:

a patient care unit with a reclining surface and a docking device connected to said reclining surface, said docking device including an inductive coupling site for inductive coupling;

a medical technical device which consumes electric energy, said medical device including an inductive supply tap for inductively coupling said medical technical device to the patient care unit via said inductive coupling site; and

an external line connection for supplying said patient care unit with electrical energy.

2. A patient system in accordance with claim 1, further comprising a flexible breathing tube wherein said external line connection for the electrical energy supply for said patient care unit comprises wire lines extending in a longitudinal direction of said flexible breathing tube.

3. A patient system in accordance with claim 2, further comprising a respirator wherein said flexible breathing tube is in a breathing line connection with said respirator.

4. A patient system in accordance with claim 2, wherein said docking device includes an inductive feeding coupling site and said flexible breathing tube is equipped with a tube inductive supply tap for inductively coupling to said inductive feeding coupling site as an inductive feeding site for feeding energy into said inductive coupling site at said patient care unit.

5. A patient system in accordance with claim 4, wherein said patient care unit further comprises a supply bus provided in said patient care unit and connected to each of said inductive coupling site and said inductive feeding coupling site for supplying said inductive coupling site with electrical energy via said feeding coupling site.

6. A patient system in accordance with claim 1, wherein said medical technical device comprises one of a patient monitor, an infusion pump, and a portable monitor.

7. A patient system in accordance with claim 1, further comprising an information network with a hospital information system and with an application server, said patient care unit being connected to said application server via said information network.

8. A patient system in accordance with claim 7, further comprising a portable monitor provided with a radio interface for a first data path into said information network via a wireless access node of said information network as well as with a second line-bound data path via a connection line with said feeding coupling site, said flexible breathing tube, a respirator and a line from said respirator into said information network.

9. A patient system in accordance claim 8, wherein a transmission path for the energy supply also forms a data transmission path.

10. A patient system in accordance with claim 9, wherein said portable monitor and/or a infusion pump are remotely controllable by means of said respirator or by means of a stationary monitor.

11. A patient system comprising:

a patient care unit with a reclining surface, a supply bus and a docking device connected to said reclining surface, said docking device including an inductive coupling site for inductive coupling connected to an inductive feeding coupling site for inductive coupling via a supply bus;

a medical technical device which consumes electric energy, said medical device including an inductive supply tap for inductively coupling said medical technical device to the patient care unit via said inductive coupling site to receive electric energy therefrom; and

an external line connection for supplying said patient care unit with electrical energy via said inductive feeding coupling.

12. A patient care unit in accordance with claim 11, further comprising a flexible breathing tube wherein said external line connection for the electrical energy supply for said patient care unit comprises wire lines extending in a longitudinal direction of said flexible breathing tube.

13. A patient system in accordance with claim 12, further comprising a respirator wherein said flexible breathing tube is in a breathing line connection with a respirator and said external line provides an electrical supply connection via said respirator.

14. A patient system in accordance with claim 13, wherein said medical technical device comprises one of a patient monitor, an infusion pump, and a portable monitor.

15. A patient system in accordance with claim 14, further comprising

an information network with a hospital information system and with an application server connected;

and

a portable monitor provided with a radio interface for a first data path into said information network via a wireless access node of said information network, said patient care unit being connected to said information network via said feeding coupling site, said external line connection of said flexible breathing tube, said respirator and a line from said respirator into said information network.

16. A patient system in accordance claim 15, wherein said external line connection provides a transmission path for energy supply and a data transmission path.

17. A patient system in accordance with claim 16, wherein said portable monitor and/or said infusion pump are remotely controllable by means of said respirator or by means of a stationary monitor.

18. A patient system comprising:

a patient care unit with a reclining surface, a supply bus and a docking device connected to said reclining surface, said docking device including an inductive coupling site for inductive coupling connected to an inductive feeding coupling site for inductive coupling via a supply bus;

a medical technical device which consumes electric energy, said medical device including an inductive supply tap for inductively coupling said medical technical device to the patient care unit via said inductive coupling site to receive electric energy therefrom;

a flexible breathing tube with an external line connection providing a transmission path for supplying said patient care unit with electrical energy via said inductive feeding coupling and providing a data transmission path via said inductive feeding coupling wherein said external line connection for the electrical energy supply for said patient care unit comprises wire lines extending in a longitudinal direction of said flexible breathing tube; and

a respirator wherein said flexible breathing tube is in a breathing line connection with a respirator and said external line provides an electrical supply connection via said respirator.

19. A patient system in accordance with claim 18, further comprising:

an information network with a hospital information system and with an application server, said patient care unit being connected to said information network via said feeding coupling site, said external line connection of said flexible breathing tube, said respirator and a line from said respirator into said information network.

20. A patient system in accordance with claim 19, further comprising:

a portable monitor provided with a radio interface for a first data path into said information network via a wireless access node of said information network and with a second portable monitor data path connected to said information network via said inductive coupling site, said bus, said inductive feeding coupling site, said external line connection of said flexible breathing tube, said respirator and a line from said respirator into said information network.