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US 9,038,219 B2Granted
Patient support apparatus and also a positioning method for positioning a patient's head within a surgical head restraint unit
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsPatrick Gross, Martin Ringholz
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Abstract
A patient support apparatus having a support table, a transfer plate, which is disposed movably in relation to the support table in a direction and on which a patient is supported for a surgical intervention and/or a medical imaging examination, and a surgical head restraint unit, which is disposed on the transfer plate is provided. The patient support apparatus includes a position monitoring apparatus for monitoring and/or checking a position of the surgical head restraint unit.
Claims12
A patient support apparatus, comprising:
- a support table;
- a transfer plate, which is disposed to enable it to move in a direction relative to the support table and on which a patient is supported for a surgical intervention and/or a medical imaging examination;
- a surgical head restraint unit which is disposed on the transfer plate;
- and
- a position monitoring apparatus for monitoring and/or checking a position of the surgical head restraint unit,
- wherein the position monitoring apparatus includes a mechanical target checking unit with an aiming unit,
- wherein the aiming unit includes at least two aiming elements,
- wherein the at least two aiming units are disposed behind one another in a direction of view and the direction of view includes a target area of the aiming unit,
- wherein the target area coincides at least partly with an edge area and/or a delimitation of the maximum permissible positioning area for the surgical head restraint unit, and
- wherein a mispositioning of the surgical head restraint unit is determined if at least one of the at least two aiming units is not visible for a clinical operator along the direction of view.
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A medical imaging apparatus, comprising:
- a patient support apparatus comprising:
- a support table;
- a transfer plate, which is disposed to enable it to move in a direction relative to the support table and on which a patient is supported for a surgical intervention and/or a medical imaging examination;
- a surgical head restraint unit which is disposed on the transfer plate;
- and
- a position monitoring apparatus for monitoring and/or checking a position of the surgical head restraint unit,
- wherein the position monitoring apparatus includes a mechanical target checking unit with an aiming unit,
- wherein the aiming unit includes at least two aiming elements,
- wherein the at least two aiming units are disposed behind one another in a direction of view and the direction of view includes a target area of the aiming unit,
- wherein the target area coincides at least partly with an edge area and/or a delimitation of the maximum permissible positioning area for the surgical head restraint unit, and
- wherein a mispositioning of the surgical head restraint unit is determined if at least one of the at least two aiming units is not visible for a clinical operator along the direction of view.
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A positioning method for positioning a head of a patient within a surgical head restraint unit, comprising:
- positioning the head of the patient within the surgical head restraint unit;
- positioning of the surgical head restraint unit within a maximum permissible positioning area on a transfer plate;
- and
- checking the position of the surgical head restraint unit on the transfer plate by means of a position monitoring apparatus,
- wherein the position monitoring apparatus includes a mechanical target checking unit with an aiming unit,
- wherein the aiming unit includes at least two aiming elements,
- wherein the at least two aiming units are disposed behind one another in a direction of view and the direction of view includes a target area of the aiming unit,
- wherein the target area coincides at least partly with an edge area and/or a delimitation of the maximum permissible positioning area for the surgical head restraint unit, and
- wherein, in the checking the position of the surgical head restraint unit, a mispositioning of the surgical head restraint unit is detected if at least one of the at least two aiming units is not visible for a clinical operator along the direction of view.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.