Hospital bed having a siderail position detector

Inventor: Joseph A Kummer
Jul 18, 2006 · Full patent application at USPTO

A patient support or bed is disclosed having a frame, a mattress, and a plurality of siderails. A detector is disclosed that detects a position of a siderail relative to a portion of the bed.

System and method for treating kidney diseases in diabetic and non-diabetic patients

Inventor: Thomas T Aoki
Sep 2, 2003 · Full patent application at USPTO

The present invention is a system and method capable of improving the entire metabolic process and through its multiplicity of effects on neurovascular reactivity, intraglomerular pressure and hemodynamics, arresting the progression of overt diabetic nephropathy, improving intraglomerular hemodynamics, and thus arresting the progression of diabetic nephropathy and therefore reducing the risk of de

System and elements for managing therapeutic gas administration to a spontaneously breathing non-ventilated patient

Inventor: Curtis B Figley
Dec 30, 2003 · Full patent application at USPTO

A system controls and manages administration of a therapeutic gas, such as NO, O.sub.2, or the like, to a spontaneously breathing, non-ventilated patient such that concentrated NO is as low as reasonably possible while delivering the desired amount of NO to the distal portions of the lungs.

Programming system having means for recording and analyzing a patient's cardiac signal

Inventor: Andrew E Epstein
Apr 23, 1996 · Full patent application at USPTO

A programming system is provided that allows a physician or medical personnel to optimize the settings of various arrhythmia detection criteria and/or parameters related to hemodynamic performance to be programmed into the implanted cardiac stimulating device.

Lifting apparatus for use in lifting a disabled person or patient

Inventor: Christina B Hollick
Apr 26, 1988 · Full patent application at USPTO

A lifting apparatus, for lifting disabled persons, including a harness, which is front-fitting so that it can be fitted and removed with ease and speed by disabled users themselves because it does not have to be placed from the back underneath the buttocks.

Device to monitor a patient in an apparatus for medical examination

Inventor: Jacques Sireul
May 8, 1990 · Full patent application at USPTO

A device for monitoring a patient in a medical examination apparatus has a support on which are mounted a television camera and a mirror sending on an image of a part of the patient to the camera, said support being movable with respect to the frame of the apparatus but fixed with respect to the patient.

Patient care equipment transfer between hospital bed and architectural system

Inventor: Dennis J Gallant
Jul 1, 2008 · Full patent application at USPTO

An architectural system adaptable to patient acuity level has a headwall unit with a cavity, a ceiling unit, and a column coupled to the ceiling unit. The column is movable between a first position in which at least a majority of the column is situated in the cavity and a second position in which the column is situated outside the cavity. Various types of patient-care equipment is also disclosed.

Peptides immunoreactive with autoantibodies from patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis

Inventor: Venrooij Waltherus Jacobus Wilhelmus Van
Feb 26, 2008 · Full patent application at USPTO

The invention relates to a peptide derived from an antigen recognized by autoantibodies, which peptide is reactive with autoimmune antibodies from a patient suffering from rheumatoid arthritis. The peptide according to the invention possesses a modified arginine residue. The invention also relates to antibodies against the peptide and a method of detecting autoimmune antibodies.

Method of determining the diagnostic value of monitoring serum-cea-levels in a carcinoma patient undergoing therapy

Inventor: Dezso S Bartos
Sep 5, 1989 · Full patent application at USPTO

The diagnostic value of monitoring serum-CEA-levels in a patient undergoing therapy for a cancerous tumor is determined by obtaining cytosole from the tumor and quantitatively determining its CEA content. Preferably, the cytosole used is obtained from a portion of the tumor used for hormone receptor analysis.

Apparatus and method for transferring a patient from one bed to another

Inventor: Gaery Davis Rutherford
Mar 22, 1977 · Full patent application at USPTO

A sled board for transferring a patient from one bed to another. In a first embodiment, a plurality of sled boards are placed beneath a patient and the sled boards are simultaneously slid from one bed to another. The patient remains on top of the sled boards, and the sled boards carry the patient from one bed to the other.

Cardiopulmonary patient simulator

Inventor: Michael S Gordon
Jan 8, 2008 · Full patent application at USPTO

A simulator for simulating a pulse in a manikin comprises a manikin body. The simulator further comprises a first magnet and a second magnet disposed opposite to each other and spaced apart from each other. The first magnet and second magnet comprise two juxtaposed first and second sub-magnets.

Ultrasound system for disease detection and patient treatment

Inventor: Samir Mitragotri
Jul 8, 2003 · Full patent application at USPTO

A device and method of detection and treatment of a solid cancer tumor, for example prostate cancer. In a diagnostic method, ultrasound is used to extract a cancer tumor marker from interstitial fluid into a coupling medium. In a method for treating a solid tumor, ultrasound is used to deliver one or more drugs from the coupling medium directly to the site of the tumor.

Protection circuit for an adjustable motorized hospital bed

Inventor: Volk
Nov 4, 1975 · Full patent application at USPTO

The electrical control system for a motor operated adjustable hospital bed is energized by AC voltage from a grounded AC power supply. A separate ground connection between the bed frame or chassis and the power supply ground establishes the bed chassis at earth ground potential during normal operating conditions.

System and method for notification and access of patient care information being simultaneously entered

Inventor: Jean F Lancelot
Aug 31, 1999 · Full patent application at USPTO

A multiple user computerized clinical care system and method of using it, include the use of a group of terminals communicating with a central computer system for sending and receiving patient information for storage and retrieval purposes.

Method and system for delivery of therapeutic gas to a patient and for filling a cylinder

Inventor: Alonzo C Aylsworth
Dec 19, 2006 · Full patent application at USPTO

A system for filling a portable cylinder with therapeutic gas, and providing therapeutic gas to a patient. Therapeutic gas delivery to a patient may be through a conserver, or may be in a continuous mode. Some embodiments of the invention may test the contents of the portable cylinder prior to filling.

Exit alarm for a hospital bed triggered by individual load cell weight readings exceeding a predetermined threshold

Inventor: Aziz A Bhai
Aug 7, 2007 · Full patent application at USPTO

A system for monitoring a patient on a hospital bed includes load cells and a controller for detecting patient movement on, exit from, and impending exit from the hospital bed, including movement across or outside a virtual boundary or region located on the bed. The controller is configured to detect changes in the distribution of patient weight among the load cells.

Method for time- and location-resolved display of functional brain activities of a patient

Inventor: Oliver Heid
Sep 2, 1997 · Full patent application at USPTO

Physiological processes are stimulated in a patient by a stimulation function f (t). The stimulation function f (t) is non-periodic and has as few secondary maxima as possible in its autocorrelation function.

Medical system for shared patient and physician decision making

Inventor: Basil Papageorge
Jun 24, 2003 · Full patent application at USPTO

A computerized health evaluation system for joint patient and physician decision making concerning particular medical diseases and conditions.

Apparatus for coupling a drive to an adjustable patient positioning plate in a medical system

Inventor: Guenter Schmitt
Dec 31, 2002 · Full patent application at USPTO

In a coupling arrangement for a drive arrangement and an adjustable positioning plate of a medical system, the positioning plate is adjustable at least in the direction of its longitudinal axis via the drive arrangement as well as by hand.

On-line correction of patient motion in three-dimensional positron emission tomography

Inventor: William F Jones
Dec 27, 2005 · Full patent application at USPTO

A device and method for on-line correction of patient motion in three-dimensional positron emission tomography. The devices encompass an on-line hardware pipelining architecture to support 3D translation, normalization, and weighted histogramming as required. Five stages of processing for the PET event stream are utilized in the present invention.

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