System and method for reporting status of a bed
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1. A method of reporting the status of a bed for an occupant at risk of falls, comprising:
- determining if a Patient Position Monitoring (PPM) system is armed;
determining if a safeguard is in effect; and
operating a lamp module to signify a satisfactory status or an unsatisfactory status of the bed in response to the determining steps as set forth below;
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Abstract
A method and system of reporting the status of a bed (12) whose occupant is at risk of an undesired event, includes indicating that the occupant is at risk of the undesired event and operating a lamp module (42) to signify a satisfactory status or an unsatisfactory status of the bed.
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38 Claims
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1. A method of reporting the status of a bed for an occupant at risk of falls, comprising:
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determining if a Patient Position Monitoring (PPM) system is armed; determining if a safeguard is in effect; and operating a lamp module to signify a satisfactory status or an unsatisfactory status of the bed in response to the determining steps as set forth below; - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A status reporting system for reporting whether or not an occupant of a bed is satisfactorily protected, comprising:
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a Patient Position Monitoring (PPM) system having an armed state and a disarmed state; at least one lamp module; means responsive to the state of the PPM system and to a safeguard being in effect or not in effect for conditionally governing operation of the lamp module, the means producing a message to operate the lamp module in a first manner to signify a satisfactory status of the bed or a second manner to signify an unsatisfactory status of the bed as set forth below; - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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33. A method of reporting the status of a bed whose occupant is at risk of an undesired event, comprising:
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indicating that the occupant is at risk of the undesired event; and operating a lamp module to signify a satisfactory status or an unsatisfactory status of the bed in response to the risk indication and to an event specific safeguard being in effect or not in effect as set forth below; - View Dependent Claims (34, 35)
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36. A retrofit kit for upgrading a bed to reveal whether or not an occupant of the bed is satisfactorily protected, comprising:
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at least one lamp module securable to the bed and configured to be responsive a SATISFACTORY message, an UNSATISFACTORY message and a NULL message; means, responsive to a PPM message indicating whether a PPM system is armed or disarmed and also responsive to state or condition information for revealing whether a risk specific safeguard is in effect for producing the SATISFACTORY or UNSATISFACTORY message as set forth below; - View Dependent Claims (37, 38)
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