Method and apparatus for determining personnel harnessing and position protocol adherence
AssigneeAtsr Limited
InventorsEric GALLAGHER, Valdas BOCKUS, Colm LOUGHNANE
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for determining patient safety, including capturing an image of an area and determining if a person on the patient transport apparatus is correctly harnessed according to a predefined protocol and/or correctly positioned according to a predefined protocol.
Claims51
A method for determining patient safety, the method comprising:
- capturing an image of an area associated with a vehicle;
- analysing the captured image;
- detecting if the captured image contains at least one person and a patient transport apparatus;
- and
- determining if a person on the patient transport apparatus is correctly harnessed according to a predefined protocol and/or correctly positioned according to a predefined protocol.
A method of any previous claim, further comprising providing a notification to a user of the vehicle in response to one or more of:
- i) determining if the person on the patient transport apparatus is correctly harnessed according to a predefined protocol;
- ii) determining if the person on the patient transport apparatus is correctly positioned according to a predefined protocol;
- iii) determining if the patient transport apparatus is correctly secured on the vehicle lift according to a predefined protocol;
- iv) determining if the patient transport apparatus is correctly secured on the vehicle ramp according to a predefined protocol;
- or
- v) determining if the patient transport apparatus is correctly secured in the interior of the vehicle according to a predefined protocol.
A method of any previous claim;
- further comprising selectively controlling at least one parameter of the vehicle in response to detecting both of the at least one authorised personnel and the patient transport apparatus approaching the vicinity of the vehicle.
A method of any preceding claim, further comprising measuring at least one external environment parameter of the vehicle.
A method of any previous claim;
- further comprising maintaining a log in memory each time the predefined protocol was breached.
An apparatus for determining patient safety, the apparatus comprising:
- an image capture device for capturing an image of an area associated with a vehicle;
- a detecting means for detecting if the captured images contain both at least one person and a patient transport apparatus;
- an image analysing means for analysing the captured image, wherein the imaging analysing means is configured for determining if a person on the patient transport apparatus is correctly harnessed according to a predefined protocol and/or correctly positioned according to a predefined protocol.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.