Medical apparatus permitting unimpeded patient access to the patient support table
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsKlaus Herrmann, Guenther Krauss, Peter Noegel
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Abstract
A medical apparatus has a patient support table with a seating surface and a mounting side, the apparatus having at least one apparatus part. At least one of the apparatus part or the patient support table (or the seating surface thereof) is adjustable relative to the other so that the apparatus part and the patient support table assume a mounting position wherein those regions of the apparatus part that have a distance of less than 100 cm from the seating surface measured in vertical direction, are spaced from the edge of the patient support table that limits the mounting side no closer than 40 cm measured horizontally and transversely relative to the edge.
Claims21
A medical apparatus comprising:
- a base;
- a patient support table mounted on said base having a patient seating surface and a patient mounting side limited by an edge;
- at least one apparatus part mounted on said base;
- means for positionally adjusting at least one of said seating surface and said apparatus part relative to the other for causing said seating surface and said apparatus part to assume a mounting position wherein regions of said apparatus part having a distance of less than 100 cm from said seating surface, measured in a vertical direction, are spaced no less than 40 cm horizontally and transversely from said edge, measured from said edge;
- a therapy unit mounted on said base for administering therapy to said patient;
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- means for adjusting said therapy unit into a standby position when said apparatus part and said seating surface assume said mounting position, said therapy unit in said standby position having regions located above said seating surface and said regions being spaced horizontally and transversely from said edge by a distance no less than 40 cm.
A method for operating a medical apparatus comprising the steps of:
- providing a patient support table having a patient seating surface and a patient mounting side limited by an edge;
- mounting said patient support table and at least one apparatus part on a common base;
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- positionally adjusting at least one of said seating surface and said apparatus part relative to the other and thereby bringing said seating surface and said apparatus part to a mounting position and causing regions of said apparatus part having a distance of less than 100 cm from said seating surface, measured in a vertical direction, to be spaced in said mounting position no less than 40 cm horizontally and transversely from said edge, measured from said edge.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.