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US 8,281,433 B2Granted
Apparatuses for supporting and monitoring a person
AssigneeHill-Rom Services, Inc.
InventorsCarl William Riley, Timothy J. Receveur, David L. Ribble
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Abstract
Embodiments disclosed herein related to person support apparatuses and systems, and in particular, to such apparatuses and systems that incorporate or are used with vital signs monitoring devices.
Claims15
An apparatus for supporting and monitoring of a person, the apparatus comprising:
- a bedframe,
- a mattress support deck coupled to the bed frame, the mattress support deck including a head deck section that is made of substantially rigid material, that is movable between a raised position and a lowered position and that is sized and configured to support the person's upper body,
- a sensing device fixed to the head deck section and configured to provide a monitoring signal indicative of at least one physiological sign of the person, the substantially rigid material of the head deck section being molded around the sensing device such that the sensing device is embedded in the head deck section, and
- a processor coupled to the bedframe and configured to receive the monitoring signal.
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