Patient control arm with phone dock and head-of-bed lockout
AssigneeHill-Rom Services, Inc.
InventorsRobert M. Zerhusen, Michael Provinzano, Daniel Nachtigal
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Abstract
A patient control unit for controlling functions of a hospital bed includes a housing having a first side that includes a plurality of user inputs to control the functions of the hospital bed. The housing has a second side that includes a dock to secure a handheld phone in place on the housing. A hospital bed has a head-of-bed angle (HOBA) lockout selector that is used to signal a controller to prevent a head section of the bed from being moved below a threshold.
Claims18
A patient control unit for controlling functions of a hospital bed, the patient control unit comprising a housing having a first side and a second side that face in opposite directions, the first side including a plurality of user inputs accessible to a patient to control the functions of the hospital bed while the patient is supported on the hospital bed in a supine position, and the second side having a dock to secure a handheld phone in place on the housing,
- a first stay-in-bed indicia coupled to the first side of the housing and visible to the patient on the hospital bed in the supine position when the first side of the housing is viewed by the patient, and
- a second stay-in-bed indicia coupled to the second side of the housing and visible to the patient on the hospital bed in the supine position when the second side of the housing is viewed by the patient, wherein each of the first and second stay-in-bed indicia lights up to warn the patient to stay in the hospital bed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.