Nurse call system
AssigneeAiphone Co., Ltd.
InventorKenichi Ogawa
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Abstract
A nurse call system that enables a call for a nurse from anywhere in a hospital ward while a patient carries a mobile phone is provided. The nurse call system includes a plurality of patient mobile phones 10 are carried by hospitalized patients and connected to a controller 8 via a base station 12 as with nurse mobile phones 9, and each patient mobile phone 10 has a hospital room ID and a nurse call slave device ID registered therein for recognizing a bed location of the patient carrying the patient mobile phone 10, thus enabling a nurse call operation for transmitting a call signal with the hospital room ID and the slave device ID added thereto, to the nurse call master device 7 and at least one of the nurse mobile phones 9, through a predetermined operation.
Claims7
A nurse call system comprising:
- a nurse call slave device provided for each of beds in a hospital room, for a hospitalized patient to call a nurse;
- a nurse call master device provided at a nurse station, for answering a call from the nurse call slave device;
- a plate slave device which is provided near the bed in the hospital room and to which the nurse call slave device is connected;
- a controller configured to control speech and communication between devices;
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- a plurality of nurse mobile phones connected to the controller via a PBX having a mobile phone exchange connection function and a base station having a mobile phone wireless transmission/reception function, the nurse mobile phones being carried by nurses for answering a call from the nurse call slave device, wherein
- a plurality of patient mobile phones are carried by hospitalized patients and connected to the controller via the base station and the PBX as with the nurse mobile phones, a location information transmitter configured to wirelessly transmit a location signal is provided at an appropriate location in a hospital, and a location management server configured to manage location information about each patient mobile phone is provided,
- each patient mobile phone includes a location information communication unit configured to receive the location signal transmitted from the location information transmitter and transmit the location signal with an ID of the patient mobile phone added thereto,
- each patient mobile phone has a hospital room ID and a nurse call slave device ID registered therein for specifying the patient carrying the patient mobile phone, and is capable of performing a nurse call to transmit a call signal with the hospital room ID and the nurse call slave device ID added thereto, and
- when a nurse call operation is executed on the patient mobile phone, the controller acquires location information about the patient mobile phone from the location management server, generates a call signal including the location information, and transmits the call signal to the nurse call master device and at least one of the nurse mobile phones.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.