Patient safety system with automatically adjusting bed
AssigneeMasimo Corporation
InventorMassi Joe E. Kiani
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Abstract
A patient safety system including an adjustable bed and a patient monitoring system is disclosed herein. The adjustable bed can automatically adjust to a safe default configuration when the safety system detects that a care provider has left the patient's room or when the safety system detects that the patient is trying to leave the bed. The patient monitoring system can send an alert to the care provider and/or sound an alarm if the patient tries to leave the bed and a care provider is not present with the patient.
Claims17
A patient safety system comprising:
- an adjustable bed adjustable between at least a lowered position and a raised position, the adjustable bed including a mattress,
- a first sensor configured to detect the presence of a care provider;
- and
- a second sensor configured to detect when a patient is trying to leave the bed,
- wherein the second sensor is at least one ribbon sensor disposed around a perimeter edge of the mattress;
- wherein the mattress can be adjusted to an angled configuration and a generally flat configuration;
- wherein the adjustable bed is configured to automatically adjust to the lowered position when the first sensor indicates that a care provider is not present and the second sensor indicates that a patient is trying to leave the bed;
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- wherein the bed adjusts to where the mattress is in the generally flat configuration when the first sensor indicates that a care provider is not present and the second sensor indicates that a patient is trying to leave the bed.
A patient safety system comprising:
- an adjustable bed adjustable between at least a first position and a second position, wherein the adjustable bed includes a mattress and at least one ribbon sensor disposed around a periphery edge of the mattress;
- a first sensor configured to determine the presence of a care provider near the patient;
- wherein the adjustable bed is configured to automatically adjust from the first position to the second position when the presence of a care provider is no longer detected and the at least one ribbon sensor is activated;
- wherein the adjustable bed comprises the mattress can be adjusted to an angled configuration and a generally flat configuration, wherein the first position comprises the mattress in the angled configuration and the second position comprises the mattress in the generally flat configuration.
A method of monitoring a patient in a bed, the method comprising the steps of:
- determining whether a care provider is near the patient;
- sensing movement of a patient toward the edge of the bed using at least one ribbon sensor disposed about a periphery edge of the bed;
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- adjusting the bed to a predetermined configuration when the care provider is determined not to be near the patient and the ribbon sensor is activated;
- wherein adjusting the bed further comprises adjusting the bed between an angled configuration and a generally flat configuration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.