Wireless medical room control arrangement for control of a plurality of medical devices
AssigneeStryker Corporation
InventorsPrabhu Raghavan, Travis Morgan
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Abstract
A method for wirelessly controlling a portable medical system located in a medical room, includes automatically determining that the portable medical system is located in the medical room via a wireless controller and a room identifier identifying the medical room and a system identifier stored in the wireless controller and the portable medical system; and sending wireless commands from the wireless controller to the portable medical system to operate the portable medical system.
Claims18
A method for wirelessly controlling a portable medical system located in a medical room, comprising:
- automatically determining that the portable medical system is located in the medical room via a wireless controller and a room identifier identifying the medical room and a system identifier stored in the wireless controller and the portable medical system;
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- sending wireless commands from the wireless controller to the portable medical system to operate the portable medical system.
A method for wirelessly controlling at least one portable medical system located in a medical room, comprising:
- determining entry of the at least one portable medical system in a powered or unpowered state into the medical room;
- in response to determining the entry, wirelessly transmitting a room identifier associated with the medical room to the at least one portable medical system;
- determining exit of the at least one portable medical system in the powered or unpowered state from the medical room;
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- in response to determining the exit, wirelessly transmitting a dummy identifier to the at least one portable medical system in the powered or unpowered state to prevent unintended operation of the portable medical system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.