US 2009/0013462 A1 · Multi-purpose Hospital Bed

Abstract

Disclosed is a method for transferring a patient from a first bed to a second bed, wherein said patient is disposed upon said first bed and said first bed and second bed comprise a surface for resting said patient comprising a plurality of predetermined sections. The method further discloses removing at least one of said plurality of predetermined sections of said surface of said first bed and replacing it with at least one of said plurality of predetermined sections of said surface of said second bed and removing at least one of said plurality of predetermined sections of said surface of said second bed and replacing it with at least one of said plurality of predetermined sections of said surface of said first bed; combining said surface of said first bed with said surface of said second bed; and transferring said patient from said first bed to second bed.

Claims22

Dependent claims

1-8. (canceled)

A system for transferring a patient from one bed to another bed comprising:

A first bed wherein said first bed comprises a surface for resting said patient comprising a plurality of predetermined sections;
A second bed wherein said second bed comprises a surface for resting said patient comprising a plurality of predetermined sections;
A means for combining said surface of said first bed with said surface of said second bed by removing at least one of said plurality of predetermined sections of said surface of said first bed and replacing said at least one of said plurality of predetermined sections of said surface of said first bed with at least one of said plurality of predetermined sections of said surface of said second bed and removing at least one of said plurality of predetermined sections of said surface of said second bed and replacing said at least one of said plurality of predetermined sections of said surface of said second bed with at least one of said plurality of predetermined sections of said surface of said first bed.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

11/309,498Filed 14 Aug 2006

Published

15 Jan 2009

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

A61G 7/1057
Attachment, suspending or supporting means for patients: supported platforms, frames or sheets for patient in lying position
A61G 7/05769
Arrangements for preventing bed-sores or for supporting patients with burns, e.g. mattresses specially adapted therefor: with inflatable chambers
A61G 7/1036
Lateral movement of patients, e.g. horizontal transfer: facilitating loading and unloading of the patient, e.g. using flaps or additional tilting
A61G 7/1046
Devices carried or supported by: mobile bases, e.g. having wheels

Multi-purpose Hospital Bed

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Multi-purpose Hospital Bed

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Abstract

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