Patient care equipment transfer between hospital bed and architectural system
View Patent ↗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. The patient-care equipment is included in, or is coupleable to, one or more of the ceiling unit, the headwall unit, or the column.
1. A combination comprising
an architectural system having an arm,
a hospital bed having a base frame and an upper frame that is raiseable and lowerable relative to the base frame, and
a patient care equipment support that is detachably coupleable to the arm and to the hospital bed, the patient care equipment support being configured to be detached from the arm and transferred from the arm to the hospital bed as a result of the upper frame of the hospital bed being raised upwardly into engagement with the patient care equipment support, wherein after the patient care equipment support is detached from the arm and transferred to the hospital bed, the hospital bed and the patient care equipment support are transportable together away from the arm.
2. The combination of claim 1 , wherein the arm comprises a column having a medical service outlet.
3. The combination of claim 2 , wherein the patient care equipment support is configured to carry medical equipment that is coupleable to the medical service outlet to receive a medical service therefrom.
4. The combination of claim 3 , wherein the medical service outlet is configured to deliver any one of medical gas, electric power, data, and suction to the medical equipment carried by the patient care equipment support.
5. The combination of claim 1 , wherein the architectural system comprises a structure to support the arm above a floor of a hospital room and the arm is movable relative to the structure to a plurality of positions.
6. The combination of claim 5 , wherein the structure comprises a headwall unit coupled to a wall of the hospital room and a ceiling unit coupled to the ceiling of the hospital room, the arm hanging downwardly from the ceiling unit.
7. The combination of claim 1 , wherein patient care equipment support comprises an IV rack that is configured to carry infusion pumps.
8. The combination of claim 1 , further comprising an arm assembly coupled to the upper frame of the hospital bed and configured to carry the patient care equipment support when the patient care equipment support is coupled to the hospital bed.
9. The combination of claim 8 , wherein the arm assembly comprises a support arm that is coupled to the upper frame of the hospital bed for pivoting movement about a vertical axis so that the patient care equipment support is supportable in a plurality of positions relative to the upper frame of the hospital bed.
10. The combination of claim 9 , wherein one of the plurality of positions of the patient equipment support relative to the upper frame of the hospital bed is a position alongside the hospital bed.
11. The combination of claim 1 , wherein the patient care equipment support comprises at least one generally vertical pole to which an infusion pump is coupelable and a hook to which an IV bag is coupleable.
12. The combination of claim 11 , wherein the patient care equipment support comprises a generally horizontal plate having a first coupler and the hospital bed has a second coupler that mates with the first coupler to couple the patient care equipment support to the hospital bed.
13. The combination of claim 12 , wherein the generally horizontal plate is coupled to a lower end of the at least one generally vertical pole.
14. A combination comprising
an architectural system having an arm,
a hospital bed having a base frame and an upper frame that is raiseable and lowerable relative to the base frame, and
a patient care equipment support that is detachably coupleable to the arm and to the hospital bed, the patient care equipment support being configured to be transferred from the arm to the hospital bed as a result of the upper frame of the hospital bed being raised upwardly into engagement with the patient care equipment support, wherein the architectural system comprises a structure to support the arm above a floor of a hospital room and the arm is movable relative to the structure to a plurality of positions, wherein the structure comprises a headwall unit coupled to a wall of the hospital room and a ceiling unit coupled to the ceiling of the hospital room, the arm hanging downwardly from the ceiling unit, wherein the headwall unit has a cavity and the arm is movable along the ceiling unit between a storage position in which the patient care equipment support is supportable by the arm inside the cavity and a use position in which the patient care equipment support is supportable by the arm outside the cavity.
15. The combination of claim 14 , wherein the headwall unit has a door that is movable between a closed position blocking access to the patient care equipment support when the arm is in the storage position and an opened position allowing access to the patient care equipment support when the arm is in the storage position.
16. A combination comprising
an architectural system having an arm,
a hospital bed having a base frame and an upper frame that is raiseable and lowerable relative to the base frame, and
a patient care equipment support that is detachably coupleable to the arm and to the hospital bed, the patient care equipment support being configured to be transferred from the arm to the hospital bed as a result of the upper frame of the hospital bed being raised upwardly into engagement with the patient care equipment support, wherein the arm comprises a first column, the architectural system includes a second column spaced from the first column, and the hospital bed is positionable between the first and second columns.
17. The combination of claim 16 , wherein at least one of the first and second columns has a medical service outlet.
18. The combination of claim 16 , wherein the architectural system further comprises a headwall unit having a first cavity and a second cavity, each of the first and second columns has a storage position situated inside a respective one of the first and second cavities, and each of the first and second columns has a use position situated outside a respective one of the first and second cavities.
19. A combination comprising
an architectural system having an arm,
a hospital bed having a base frame and an upper frame that is raiseable and lowerable relative to the base frame,
a patient care equipment support that is detachably coupleable to the arm and to the hospital bed, the patient care equipment support being configured to be transferred from the arm to the hospital bed as a result of the upper frame of the hospital bed being raised upwardly into engagement with the patient care equipment support, and
an arm assembly coupled to the upper frame of the hospital bed and configured to carry the patient care equipment support when the patient care equipment support is coupled to the hospital bed, wherein one of the patient care equipment support and the arm assembly has a socket and the other of the patient care equipment support and the arm assembly has a post that is received by the socket when the patient care equipment support is coupled to the hospital bed.
20. A combination comprising
an architectural system having an arm,
a hospital bed having a base frame and an upper frame that is raiseable and lowerable relative to the base frame, and
a patient care equipment support that is detachably coupleable to the arm and to the hospital bed, the patient care equipment support being configured to be transferred from the arm to the hospital bed as a result of the upper frame of the hospital bed being raised upwardly into engagement with the patient care equipment support, wherein the patient care equipment support comprises at least one generally vertical pole to which an infusion pump is coupelable and a hook to which an IV bag is coupleable, wherein the patient care equipment support comprises a generally horizontal plate having a first coupler and the hospital bed has a second coupler that mates with the first coupler to couple the patient care equipment support to the hospital bed, and wherein one of the first and second couplers comprises a socket and the other of the first and second couplers comprises a post.