System and Method for Reporting Status of a Bed
AssigneeHill-Rom Services, Inc.
InventorsDan R. Tallent, William Gifford Pittenger, Irvin J. Vanderpohl, III, James L. Walke
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Abstract
A method and system of reporting the status of a bed (12) whose occupant is at risk of an undesired event, includes indicating that the occupant is at risk of the undesired event and operating a lamp module (42) to signify a satisfactory status or an unsatisfactory status of the bed.
Claims38
A method of reporting the status of a bed for an occupant at risk of falls, comprising:
- determining if a Patient Position Monitoring (PPM) system is armed;
- determining if a safeguard is in effect;
- and
- operating a lamp module to signify a satisfactory status or an unsatisfactory status of the bed as set forth below:
- Bed Status
- PPM
- Safeguard
- Indication
- Armed
- In Effect
- Satisfactory
- Armed
- Not In Effect
- Unsatisfactory
A status reporting system for reporting whether or not an occupant of a bed is satisfactorily protected, comprising:
- a Patient Position Monitoring (PPM) system having an armed state and a disarmed state;
- at least one lamp module;
- means for conditionally governing operation of the lamp module, the means producing a message to operate the lamp module in a first manner to signify a satisfactory status of the bed or a second manner to signify an unsatisfactory status of the bed as set forth below:
- Manner of
- PPM
- Safeguard
- Operation
- Armed
- In Effect
- First
- Armed
- Not In Effect
- Second
A method of reporting the status of a bed whose occupant is at risk of an undesired event, comprising:
- indicating that the occupant is at risk of the undesired event;
- and
- operating a lamp module to signify a satisfactory status or an unsatisfactory status of the bed as set forth below:
- Is Event
- Specific
- Safeguard
- Bed Status
- At Risk?
- In Effect?
- Indication
- Yes
- Yes
- Satisfactory
- Yes
- No
- Unsatisfactory
A retrofit kit for upgrading a bed to reveal whether or not an occupant of the bed is satisfactorily protected, comprising:
- at least one lamp module securable to the bed and configured to be responsive a SATISFACTORY message, an UNSATISFACTORY message and a NULL message;
- means, responsive to a PPM message indicating whether a PPM system is armed or disarmed and also responsive to state or condition information for revealing whether a risk specific safeguard is in effect for producing the SATISFACTORY or UNSATISFACTORY message as set forth below:
- PPM
- Risk Specific
- State
- Safeguard
- Message
- Armed
- In Effect
- SATISFACTORY
- Armed
- Not In Effect
- UNSATISFACTORY
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.