Operating room/intervention room

• US 9,222,257 B2
• Filed: 12/08/2014
• Issued: 12/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• 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:
  US14/563,784
• Publication Number:
  US 20150159374A1
• Time in Patent Office: 386 Days
• Field of Search: 52/791, 52/797, 522/34, 522/93, 522/201, 454/293, 362/285, 362/227, 362/276
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 pre-constructed, standalone, drop-down ceiling assembly for a medical facility operating/intervention room, comprising:

a. a drop-down ceiling structure adapted for installation as a unit with a ceiling substrate of a medical facility operating/intervention room, said ceiling structure comprising a downwardly recessed sub-structure at an elevation below the substrate ceiling;

b. a lighting system installed in the drop-down ceiling structure, said lighting system comprising;

multiple light sources recessed into the recessed ceiling sub-structure;

movable mounting systems for the light sources positioned within the recessed ceiling sub-structure; and

a powered actuating system for moving the light mounting systems to aim the lights from the light sources as desired by operating/intervention room personnel; and

c. a ventilation distribution system installed in the drop-down ceiling structure, said ventilation distribution system comprising a plurality of laminar flow outlets in the recessed ceiling sub-structure wherein ventilation air is able to travel from said outlets in a laminar flow condition from the drop-down ceiling sub-structure to the surgical site.

2. The pre-constructed, standalone, drop-down ceiling assembly of claim 1, wherein said drop-down ceiling structure further comprises a perimeter sub-structure that defines the outer perimeter of the drop-down ceiling structure.

3. The pre-constructed, standalone, drop-down ceiling structure of claim 2, wherein said perimeter sub-structure is adapted to be attachable to the substrate ceiling.

4. The pre-constructed, standalone, drop-down ceiling assembly of claim 1, wherein the recessed ceiling sub-structure is positionable over a surgical/intervention zone from about 7 feet to 8 feet from the floor.

5. The pre-constructed, standalone, drop-down ceiling assembly of claim 1, wherein the movable mounting systems of the lighting system are independently movable about first and second axes disposed transversely to each other.

6. The pre-constructed, standalone, drop-down ceiling assembly of claim 5, wherein the lighting system, 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.

7. The pre-constructed, standalone, drop-down ceiling assembly of claim 1, wherein the lighting system further comprising a control system for controlling the powered actuating system and for controlling the intensity of the light sources.

8. The pre-constructed, standalone, drop-down ceiling assembly of claim 1, wherein the laminar flow outlets of the ventilation distribution system correspond with a plurality of air exhaust systems adjacent the floor of the operating/intervention room, whereby ventilation air is able to travel in a laminar flow condition from the outlets of the recessed ceiling sub-structure to the surgical site and then to the floor exhaust system.

9. A pre-constructed, drop-down ceiling assembly mountable as a standalone unit in the ceiling of an operating/intervention room to define and extend over a surgical/intervention zone of a predetermined area generally surrounding the location where a patient is positionable, comprising:

a. a drop-down ceiling structure extending downwardly from the ceiling height of the rest of the operating/intervention room;

b. a lighting system pre-constructed into the ceiling structure; and

c. a ventilation distribution system pre-constructed with the drop-down ceiling structure.

10. The pre-constructed, drop-down ceiling assembly of claim 9, wherein said drop-down ceiling structure extending downwardly from the ceiling height of the rest of the operating/intervention room to a position of between 7 and 8 feet from the floor.

11. The pre-constructed, drop-down ceiling assembly according to claim 9, wherein said drop-down ceiling structure comprising a perimeter structure defining the outer perimeter of the drop-down ceiling structure.

12. The pre-constructed, drop-down ceiling assembly of claim 11, wherein the perimeter structure is adapted for mounting the drop-down ceiling assembly to the operating/intervention room ceiling.

13. The pre-constructed, drop-down ceiling assembly according to claim 9, wherein the lighting system comprising:

a. multiple light sources recessed into the drop-down ceiling structure;

b. movable mounting systems for the light sources positioned within the drop-down ceiling structure; and

c. a powered actuating system for moving the light mounting systems to aim the lights from the light sources as desired by operating/intervention room personnel.

14. The pre-constructed, drop-down ceiling assembly according to claim 13, wherein the lighting system further comprising a control system for controlling the powered actuating system and for controlling the intensity of the light sources.

15. The pre-constructed, drop-down ceiling assembly according to claim 13, wherein the movable mounting systems of the lighting system are independently movable about first and second axes disposed transversely to each other.

16. The pre-constructed, drop-down ceiling assembly according to claim 15, wherein the lighting system 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 mounting the support yoke for rotation about the second axis.

17. The pre-constructed, drop-down ceiling assembly according to claim 9, wherein the ventilation system comprising a plurality of laminar flow outlets in the drop-down ceiling structure, whereby ventilation air is able to travel from the outlets in a laminar flow condition to the surgical site.

18. The pre-constructed, drop-down ceiling assembly according to claim 17, wherein the ventilation system includes a plurality of air exhaust systems adjacent the floor of the operating/intervention room, whereby ventilation air is able to travel in laminar flow condition from the outlets of the drop-down ceiling structure to the surgical site and then to the floor exhaust system.