Communications: electrical – Condition responsive indicating system – Specific condition
Reexamination Certificate
2006-01-05
2008-05-27
Mullen, Jr., Thomas J (Department: 2612)
Communications: electrical
Condition responsive indicating system
Specific condition
C340S666000, C340S667000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07378975
ABSTRACT:
There is provided herein a sensor/monitor combination designed to reduce the risk of pressure ulcer occurrence in immobile patients, wherein the level of patient activity is tracked to determine whether or not that patient has exhibited sufficient activity to merit eliminating a scheduled assisted relocation to a new position. The instant device senses the time since a patient last relocated into a different sitting or lying position. If the patient has not moved during some predetermined time period, the nursing staff will be notified by the invention that it is time to manually reposition the patient. If the patient has significantly changed position during the predetermined time period and, thus, allowed previously compressed tissues to reoxygenate, the invention will not signal that a move is necessary, thereby eliminating the need in some cases to rouse the patient from an otherwise healing sleep.
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Cooper Craig L.
Smith Toby E.
Bed-Check Corporation
Fellers Snider Blankenship Bailey & Tippens, P.C.
Mullen, Jr. Thomas J
Watt Terry L.
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