Hill-rom Services, Inc.

General Electric Company

Aspen Surgical Products, Inc.

David Lawrence Bedel

David Lance Ribble

Kirsten M Emmons

Charles A Lachenbruch

Craig M Meyerson

John V Harmeyer

Thomas F Heil

Nicholas A Mann

Lori Ann Zapfe

Kenneth L Lilly

Jotpreet Chahal

Xuan Teng

Varad Narayan Srivastava

Todd P O'Neal

Neal Wiggermann

Frank E Sauser

Rachel L Williamson

Steven D Baker

Joshua A Williams

Andrew D Clark

Ben Hertz

Robert J Lawrence

Robert Mark Zerhusen

Richard Henry Heimbrock

David C Newkirk

Jonathan D Turner

Christopher Charles Glynn

Gavin Martin Monson

Timothy Joseph Receveur

Aziz Ali Bhai

Dan R Tallent

David William Crall

James L Walke

Michael Scott Hood

David P Lubbers

Eric D Agdeppa

John D Christie

Douglas A Seim

Darrell L Borgman

Scott M Corbin

Ryan S Severns

Yongji Fu

Brandon P Fisk

Frank Worthoff

Andrew J Lammas

Brian J Hoffman

Eric David Benz

Jeffrey C Marrion

Bradley T Smith

John G Byers

Douglas E Borgman

Michael Buccieri

Ibne Soreefan

Catherine M Wagner

David J Hitchcock

Travis A Pelo

Martyn Thomas Mitchell

Unnati Ojha

Daniel Edward Wines

Kathryn R Smith

Nicole Johannigman

Sravan A Mamidi

Murray Swoish

John Goewert

Daniel Nachtigal

Clay Gerome Owsley

Jason B Grace

David J Brzenchek

Steven Mark Ballman

Andrew Robert Taylor

Arpit Shah

Justine Pringle

Florin Iucha

James W Pascoe

Jared Rude

Karen Lanning

Mary Kay Brinkman

Roger P Bonenfant

Brian Kirkish

Jason M Gilreath

Nathaniel W Hixon

Richard J Schuman, Sr

Todd S Ventrola

Sean Patrick McGowan

Yongfeng Li

Chris Hill

Catherine A Vangilder

Holly L Bengel

Logan Cobler

Kayla Stevens

Todd P O'neal

Alistair Andrew James Ward

Steve D Baker

Andrew David Clark

A warming device may include a batting layer having a phase change material. The batting layer may have a patient side and an upper side. A hot melt fabric adhesive may be applied to the patient side and upper side of the batting. A first fabric layer may be adhered to the hot melt fabric on the patient side of the batting. The first fabric layer may have a phase change material integrated coating. An insulation layer may be adhered to the hot melt fabric on the upper side of the batting. A second fabric layer may be coupled to the insulation layer.

Reusable warming blanket with phase change material

A protective dressing includes an outer dressing and an adhesive layer. The outer dressing includes an opening and a cavity sized to receive a phase-change material (PCM) insert inserted through the opening. The adhesive layer is configured to adhere to a patient's skin surrounding an anatomic site. When adhered to the patient's skin, the PCM insert modifies the patient's skin at the anatomic site. The PCM insert may be removed and replaced with another PCM insert. For example, a warm PCM insert may be replaced with a refrigerated PCM insert. The opening of the outer dressing may be self-sealing. The opening of the outer dressing may be sealed with an upper layer dressing coupled to the PCM cooling insert.

Protective dressing with reusable phase-change material cooling insert

A mattress support includes a first section and a second section configured to be coupled to the first section. Each of the first section and the second section includes a base plate configured to be positioned on a box frame of a bed. A top plate is pivotable relative to the base plate. A bladder structure is positioned between the base plate and the top plate and inflatable to adjust a height of the top plate.

Method and apparatus for upgrading a bed to include moveable components

An apparatus for remote at-home care of a patient is disclosed. The apparatus monitors a patient with a deployable sensor system and communicates the data sensed by the sensor system to a patient care hub located within a patient's home. A patient interface and a caregiver controller are in wireless communication with each other and the patient care hub. The patient care hub generates an alert(s) in view of the sensed data and wirelessly communicates the alert(s) to the patient interface and/or the caregiver controller.

Patient care system for a home environment

The present disclosure is related to a bed assembly. Specifically, the present disclosure relates to a bed assembly that is compatible with a traditional consumer bed and can enhance the traditional consumer bed so it provides features of a traditional hospital bed. The bed assembly of the present disclosure may include pneumatic components to move portions of the bed assembly.

Structures for causing movement of elements of a bed

A smoke evacuation tubing assembly includes a base sheet having an adhesive disposed on a top side thereof. An elongate tubing member is operably coupled with a top side of the base sheet and includes a cross-section with first and second opposing rounded sidewalls and first and second generally planar sidewalls disposed between the first and second opposing rounded sidewalls. A plurality of apertures are defined through the first rounded sidewall. A central axis of each aperture is directed downwardly toward the top side of the base sheet. A cover sheet is operably coupled with the top side of the base sheet and is configured to engage the first generally planar sidewall of the elongate tubing member.

Smoke evacuation tubing assembly

A modular system is usable to vary the conditions around a bed in a home to provide various levels of support for patients who are at home and have varying acuity of medical complications. The modular system allows the home bed to be temporarily adapted for medical care.

Mattress support for adding hospital bed modular control system for upgrading a bed to include movable components

A mattress support includes a base plate configured to be positioned on a box spring of a bed. A bladder may be coupled to a top surface of the base plate. A top plate is coupled to a top surface of the bladder. A top surface of the top plate is configured to support a mattress. The bladder is inflatable to adjust a height of the top plate.

Mattress support for adding hospital bed functionality to an in-home bed

A patient support apparatus includes a base frame, lift mechanism supporting an upper frame relative to the base frame, a load frame, and a plurality of deck sections, a patient support surface, and a number of barriers positioned about the patient supporting surface. The patient support apparatus includes a notification system for visually notifying a caregiver of a condition or status of a component of the patient support apparatus.

Patient support apparatus

A support apparatus configured to support a person is provided. The support apparatus includes a top surface including one or more predetermined areas, one or more conduits located inside the support apparatus which are located proximate to the one or more predetermined areas, and an air supply configured to provide air to the one or more conduits for delivering to the one or more predetermined areas. The air supply includes a temperature sensor configured to measure a temperature of the air provided by the air supply, a cooling element, and a controller communicatively coupled to the temperature sensor and the cooling element. The controller determines whether the measured temperature of the air is higher than a predetermined temperature, and controls the cooling element to cool the air to the predetermined temperature if it is determined that the temperature of the air is higher than the predetermined temperature.

Support apparatuses comprising cooling elements

A person support system is disclosed that includes cooling features to provide focal cooling to a subject supported by the person support system. Embodiments of the person support system include a longitudinal frame having at least one side rail, a deck position on the longitudinal frame, a support pad positioned on the deck, and a cooling source thermally coupled to the deck. The deck is a thermally conductive material. The cooling source draws heat from a portion of the support pad, through the top surface of the deck, and through the deck thereby cooling the portion of the support pad. The cooling source may be positioned in the side rail or directly to a bottom surface of the deck. Cooling systems that are removeably coupleable to person support systems are also disclosed.

Person support systems with cooling features

A patient support apparatus includes a frame, a support surface, and a sensor. The frame and the support surface cooperate to support a patient. The sensor is coupled to one of the frame and the support surface and is configured to provide an input signal indicative of usage of the support surface by the patient.

Support surface useful life monitoring

Embodiments provide a person support system including support pads having cooling features. According to one embodiment, a person support system may include a longitudinal frame comprising at least one side rail. A support pad may be positioned on the longitudinal frame. The support pad may comprise a thermally conductive core portion comprising a support matrix and at least one thermally conductive element. A cooling source may be thermally coupled to the thermally conductive core portion through the side rail with a connector comprising thermally conductive fibers. The cooling source may draw heat from the thermally conductive core portion through the at least one thermally conductive element and the thermally conductive fibers of the connector thereby cooling at least the thermally conductive core portion of the support pad.

According to the present disclosure, a patient support system includes a patient support surface having an air fluidizable section and a sensor assembly. The sensor assembly is configured to detect a temperature within the air fluidizable section. The sensor assembly includes a housing with an interior, a processor within the interior of the housing, a thermal conductor, and a thermal insulator.

Patient support apparatus with sensor assembly

A method of assembling a gas turbine engine that includes providing a rotor assembly including a rotor shaft, an air duct, and a rotor disk that includes a mounting arm, wherein the mounting arm extends radially inward from the rotor disk towards the rotor shaft and coupling a rotor impeller assembly to the mounting arm, wherein the rotor impeller assembly includes a carrier and a plurality of bleed tubes that each extend outwardly from the carrier and are configured to receive bleed air.

Methods and apparatus for operating gas turbine engines

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Oldenburg, IN, United States of America

David Lawrence Bedel