DE102013000589A1 - Weight measurement and monitoring device for medical chairs and couch system for inpatient care, transmits measurement data through short messaging service or Bluetooth, such that measurement results can be visualized - Google Patents

Abstract

The device is mounted to pillar construction or under the couch surface. The weight measurement and weight monitoring results can be represented in tabular or graphical forms and can be transmitted to computer through diverse networks, so that the weight measurement and weight monitoring results can be visualized. The measurement data can be transmitted through short messaging service, Bluetooth or other methods.

Description

The technical field of the device for weight measurement and weight monitoring in medical and hygienic loungers and tables as well as in home and stationary care systems can be the IPC A47B, A47C, A61B, A61G, A61H and the integration or optional retrofitting of weight measurement and weight monitoring, assigned to IPC G01, G05-G08 and G011.

• • DE 10 2007 050 485 A1 – Liegevorrichtung – mindest zwei Platfformwägezellen mit einem Rahmen verbunden
• • DE 692 23 255.9 – Lastmesszellenhalterung für Krankenhausbett – vier Lastmesszellen mit je einer Stahlkugel in einem besonderen fluidgelagerten Patiententragesystem.
• • US 4 869 266 A – Patient monitoring unit for surgical use – mindest zwei Kraftsensoren – S-Form; speziell für chirurgische Eingriffe

Known documents in which measuring methods for measuring weight described, for. B .:

• • DE 10 2007 050 485 A1 - Lying device - at least two platform load cells connected to a frame
• • DE 692 23 255.9 - load cell holder for hospital bed - four load cells each with a steel ball in a special fluid-bearing patient support system.
• • US 4,869,266 A - Patient monitoring unit for surgical use - at least two force sensors - S-shape; especially for surgical procedures

For the application of the device not only the pamphlets like these already come in DE 102010047776 and DE 102010051897 but basically in all types of medical and hygienic loungers and tables and in lying systems for home and inpatient care.

Medical loungers and tables are used extensively in all areas of primary and secondary care as well as prevention. The determination of the weight of the patient is usually not on the medical beds and tables, but on personal scales, baby scales or auxiliary measuring devices such as electronic bed scales, Wiegestühle etc. instead.

The problem here is that there are patients who are due to their physical health limitations, not able to be weighed properly on a personal scale and this can lead to erroneous results. This is the case in particular if resources can not be resorted to in the short term or if they are not available.

• a) Der Vorteil hierbei ist, dass man z. B. eine Liegefläche in Messbereichen so aufteilen kann, wie es der Anwendungsfall (z. B. Sitzen an einer definierten Position) vorsieht, oder je nach Konstruktion des medizinischen Produktes (Liege, Bett etc.) an den jeweiligen tragenden Komponenten die Vorrichtung montiert.
• b) Die Integration mit einer Gewichtsmessung in Liegen, Tischen und Betten hat auch den Vorteil, dass auf externe Hilfsmittel verzichtet werden kann – was eine Reduzierung der Ausstattung in Untersuchungs- und Behandlungsräumen und der Investitionskosten zur Folge hat.
• c) Der entscheidende Vorteil der Integration in medizinischen und hygienischen Liegen und Tischen sowie in Liegesystemen zur häuslichen- und stationären Pflege ist es jedoch, dass eine Gewichtsermittlung bereits während einer Behandlung/Untersuchung bzw. in der Ruhephase in einen Liegesystem vorgenommen werden kann.

As a solution to the problem integrates a weight / weight monitoring in all common medical and hygienic chairs and tables and in lying systems for home and inpatient care, which is attached by means of a device and in or on the sensors for weight / weight monitoring.

• a) The advantage here is that you z. B. can divide a lying surface in measuring ranges as it provides the application (eg., Sitting at a defined position), or mounted depending on the design of the medical product (couch, bed, etc.) to the respective supporting components, the device.
• b) The integration with a weight measurement in couches, tables and beds also has the advantage that external aids can be dispensed with - resulting in a reduction in the equipment in examination and treatment rooms and the investment costs.
• c) The decisive advantage of integration in medical and hygienic couches and tables and in lying systems for home and inpatient care, however, is that a weight determination can already be made during a treatment / examination or in the resting phase in a lying system.

In principle, all commercially available types of sensors for weight measurement in or on a variety of materials mount, which can be used as a device or holder for these sensors.

As an example, you can work into an aluminum square a recording, the positioning z. B. for a miniature pressure force sensor (visually, similar to a button cell) is used, and this aluminum square, now with a sensor z. B. is mounted under the lying surface of an examination table / treatment table. In the same way, a platform load cell can be worked into an aluminum square.

The position of attachment of the device is z. B. variable directly below the bed, depending on the intended measuring area. Other positions of the sensors or their assembly are at the z. At present commercially available medical and hygienic couches and tables as well as in lying systems for the domestic and stationary care construction-dependently in or on the column constructions mountable.

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Cited patent literature

• DE 102007050485 A1 [0002]
• DE 69223255 [0002]
• US 4869266 A [0002]
• DE 102010047776 [0003]
• DE 102010051897 [0003]

Claims (1)

A device for weight measurement and weight monitoring in medical and hygienic loungers and tables and in domestic and inpatient care lying systems, characterized in that they are: 1. The device in or on single column or multiple column constructions, or 2. under a lying surface , or 3. can be mounted at other positions of the construction. 4. The weight measurement and weight monitoring by means of a visualization, or 5. Using databases in a tabular or graphical manner via a variety of networks to a computer, or 6. Transmission of the measured data via SMS, Bluetooth or other methods.