Unit for providing assistance or services to a patient
AssigneeHill-Rom, Inc.
InventorsClementine Pirio, Philippe Kaikenger, Philippe Legros, Pascal Guguin, Pauline Maraud
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Abstract
A bedside unit provides assistance and/or services to a patient in a bed. The unit includes a first vertical tubular shaft fixed to the floor and a second tubular shaft arranged around the first shaft and moveable relative to the first shaft under the action of a height adjustment mechanism. The apparatus for providing assistance and/or services includes drawers, an overbed table and an egress bar which are arranged to be controllably pivotable about the second shaft. The unit also includes a patient transfer arm at the top of the first shaft and rotatable thereabout.
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A patient service unit for providing assistance and/or services to a patient in or on a patient support apparatus, the unit including:
- a first substantially vertical shaft with a vertical axis and being fixed or fixable in position alongside a patient support apparatus,
- a shaft fixing for fixing the first shaft in position relative to the patient support apparatus;
- a second substantially vertical tubular shaft arranged around, coupled to and moveable in a vertical direction relative to the first shaft, and
- a height adjustment mechanism located inside the first shaft and connecting the first and second shafts for controllably moving the second shaft relative to the first shaft, wherein the height adjustment mechanism is arranged to telescopically extend and retract vertically inside the first shaft along the vertical axis to move the second shaft,
- wherein the first shaft includes a patient transfer mechanism mounted thereon, and the unit includes at least one patient service element pivotably mounted to the second shaft for supplying assistance and/or services to a patient whereby the element for providing assistance and/or services to the patient is pivotable about the first fixed shaft, and moveable in a vertical direction relative to the first fixed shaft.
A patient service unit for providing assistance and/or services to a patient in or on a patient support apparatus, the unit including:
- a first substantially vertical shaft having a vertical axis and being fixed or fixable in position relative to the patient support apparatus,
- a shaft fixing for fixing the first shaft in position relative to the patient support apparatus;
- a second substantially vertical tubular shaft arranged around, coupled to and moveable in a vertical direction relative to, the first shaft, and
- a height adjustment mechanism located inside the first shaft and connecting the first and second shafts for controllably moving the second shaft relative to the first shaft, wherein the height adjustment mechanism is arranged to telescopically extend and retract vertically inside the first shaft along the vertical axis to move the second shaft,
- wherein the second tubular shaft includes at least one mounting comprising a first curved bearing surface, the first bearing surface supporting a second bearing surface moveable relative to the first bearing surface to pivot about the vertical axis of the first shaft, the second bearing surface being coupled to a patient service element for providing assistance and/or services to a patient, whereby the patient service element is pivotable about the first and second shafts, and moveable in a vertical direction relative to the first shaft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.