Apparatus and method for upgrading a hospital room

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A - Human Necessities

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A61G 10/00 (2006.01) A47C 21/00 (2006.01) A61G 12/00 (2006.01) A61M 16/10 (2006.01) A61G 7/05 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2279389

An apparatus is provided to permit upgrading of a hospital room from a general care room to a critical care room and to facilitate transport of a critical care patient on a hospital bed (25). The apparatus includes a headwall (10) mounted to a wall (12) of the hospital room. The headwall (10) includes electrical outlets (18), gas supply outlets (20), and a bed locator section (16). The apparatus also includes a care cart (24) including a base (26) having a plurality of casters (28), an equipment shelf (38) coupled to the base (26), critical care equipment (40) located on the equipment shelf (38), a medical gas manifold (140) coupled to the equipment (40), a gas supply line (44, 46) for coupling the medical gas manifold (140) to a medical gas outlet (20) of the headwall (10) when the care cart (24) is in the hospital room, and a mechanism for coupling the manifold to a transportable gas supply (54) mounted on the care cart (24) during transport.

L'invention concerne un appareil permettant la transformation d'une salle d'hôpital pour la faire passer d'une salle de soins normaux à une salle de soins intensifs, et facilitant le transport d'un patient en soins intensifs sur un lit d'hôpital (25). Cet appareil comporte un paroi murale (10) fixée sur un mur (12) de la salle d'hôpital. Cette paroi murale (10) comprend des prises électriques (18), des arrivées de gaz (20), et une section de positionnement de lit (16). L'appareil comprend d'autre part un chariot de soins (24) possédant une base (26) pourvu d'une pluralité de roulettes (28), une étagère d'appareillage (38) accouplée à la base (26), un appareillage de soins intensifs (40) situé sur ladite étagère (38), une rampe d'alimentation en gaz médical (140) accouplée à l'appareillage (40), une canalisation d'alimentation en gaz (44, 46) permettant l'accouplement de la rampe d'alimentation en gaz médical (140) à une arrivée de gaz médical (20) de la paroi murale (10) lorsque le chariot de soins (24) se trouve dans la salle d'hôpital, et un mécanisme pour accoupler pendant le transport la rampe d'alimentation à une alimentation en gaz transportable (54) montée sur le chariot de soins (24).

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