Operating room/intervention room

• US 8,905,585 B2
• Filed: 07/28/2010
• Issued: 12/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Or21, LLC (American Shared Hospital Services)
• Original Assignee: Or21, LLC (American Shared Hospital Services)
• Inventors: Dallam, Richard F., Williams, Paul L., Tagawa, Craig, Bates, Ernest
• Primary Examiner(s): Ton, Anabel
• Application Number:
  US12/845,673
• Publication Number:
  US 20110146676A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,595 Days
• Field of Search: 362/231, 362/285, 362/276, 362/227
• US Class Current: 362/276
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00203 with speech control or speech recognition
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2090/309 using white LEDs
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/30 Devices for illuminating a surgical field, the devices having an interrelation with other surgical devices or with a surgical procedure
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/35 Supports therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/50 Supports for surgical instruments, e.g. articulated arms
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/98 using electromagnetic means, e.g. transponders
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 10/02 with artificial climate; with means to maintain a desired pressure, e.g. for germ-free rooms dust-free laboratory rooms B01L1/04; decompression arrangements B63C11/32; arrangements or adaptations in aircraft B64D13/00; air-conditioning in general F24F
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 9/006 with means for hanging lighting fixtures or other appliances to the framework of the ceiling
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 9/02 having means for ventilation or vapour discharge
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 3/08 Hospitals, infirmaries, or the like; Schools; Prisons
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 8/026 intended to be recessed in a ceiling or like overhead structure, e.g. suspended ceiling
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/30 Pivoted housings or frames
• CPC Class Codes: F21W 2131/205 for operating theatres
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]

Abstract

A hospital layout comprising a plurality of adjacent OR/intervention rooms (46, 48) uniquely configured and equipped to perform surgical and other interventional procedures, with adjacent intubation rooms (52) configured and equipped to prepare patients for procedures to occur in the OR/intervention rooms and at least one extubation room (54) adjacent the OR/intervention rooms, configured and equipped to post-intervention awaken and extubate patients. A plurality of universal patient rooms (40) are located adjacent the OR/intervention rooms and universal patient rooms, and are configured and equipped to admit patients for surgery/intervention, prepare patients for surgery/intervention, allow patients to recover post-intervention, and discharge patients post-recovery.

Claims

1. A lighting system for a hospital operating/intervention room configured and equipped to perform surgery and other procedures, the operating/intervention room having a ceiling, the lighting system comprising:

(a) multiple light sources recessible into the ceiling;

(b) a movable mounting system for the light sources positioned within the ceiling;

(c) a powered actuating system for moving the mounting system to aim the lights as desired by operating/intervention room personnel;

(d) a control system for controlling the powered actuating system and for controlling the intensity of the light sources and

(e) wherein the control system for controlling the powered actuating system is activated by;

(i) controllers mounted on gloves, arm bands, wrist bands, or head bands;

or (ii) radio frequency identification tags mounted on gloves, arm bands, wrist bands or head bands;

or (iii) voice commands.

2. The lighting system according to claim 1, wherein the movable mounting system is independently movable about first and second axes disposed transversely to each other.

3. The lighting system according to claim 2, comprising:

(a) an array of LED lights mounted on a carrier, said carrier rotatably connected to a support yoke adapted to rotate about the first axis relative to the support yoke; and

(b) a support shaft supporting the support yoke for rotation about said second axis.

4. The lighting system according to claim 1, wherein the lighting system is incorporated into a drop down ceiling construction, wherein the ceiling is positionable over a surgical/intervention zone, said drop down ceiling positionable from about seven feet to eight feet from the floor.

5. The lighting system according to claim 4, wherein the moveable mounting system is independently moveable about first and second axes disposed transversely to each other.

6. The lighting system according to claim 4, comprising an array of LED lights mounted on a carrier, wherein:

said carrier is rotatably connected to a support yoke adapted to rotate about a first axis relative to the support yoke; and

a support shaft supports the support yoke for rotation about a second axis.

7. The lighting system according to claim 4, further comprising a ventilation distribution system incorporated into the drop-down ceiling construction comprising a plurality of laminar flow air outlets in the drop-down ceiling and a plurality of air exhaust systems adjacent the floor of the operating/intervention room, wherein ventilation air is free to travel in a laminar flow condition from the drop-down ceiling to a surgical site and thence the floor.

8. The lighting system according to claim 4, wherein the drop down ceiling and lighting system incorporated therein are pre-constructed as a unit for subsequent installation at the location of the operating/intervention room.

9. The lighting system according to claim 1, wherein the moveable mounting system is independently moveable about first and second axes disposed transversely to each other.

10. The lighting system according to claim 1, comprising an array of LED lights mounted on a carrier, wherein:

said carrier is rotatably connected to a support yoke adapted to rotate about a first axis relative to the support yoke; and

a support shaft supports the support yoke for rotation about a second axis.

11. The lighting system according to claim 8, further comprising a ventilation distribution system incorporated into the pre-constructed drop-down ceiling comprising a plurality of laminar flow air outlets in the drop-down ceiling and a plurality of air exhaust systems adjacent the floor of the operating/intervention room, wherein ventilation air is free to travel in a laminar flow condition from the drop-down ceiling to a surgical site and thence the floor.

12. The lighting system according to claim 1, wherein the lighting system is incorporated into a prefabricated ceiling substructure for installing as a unit at the location of a surgical/intervention zone.

13. The lighting system according to claim 12, wherein the moveable mounting system is independently moveable about first and second axes disposed transversely to each other.

14. The lighting system according to claim 12, comprising an array of LED lights mounted on a carrier, wherein:

said carrier is rotatably connected to a support yoke adapted to rotate about a first axis relative to the support yoke; and

a support shaft supports the support yoke for rotation about a second axis.

15. The lighting system according to claim 12, further comprising a ventilation distribution system incorporated into the prefabricated ceiling structure comprising a plurality of laminar flow air outlets in the drop-down ceiling and a plurality of air exhaust systems adjacent the floor of the operating/intervention room, wherein ventilation air is free to travel in a laminar flow condition from the drop-down ceiling to a surgical site and thence the floor.