Smith + Nephew

Hill-rom Services, Inc.

Waddell, James P.

Luke Andrew Gibson

Robert Mark Zerhusen

David C Newkirk

Jeffrey Andrew Sharp

Charles A Lachenbruch

Rachel L Williamson

Timothy Joseph Receveur

David Timothy Mehl

Abraham Biglari Salehi

Joshua A Williams

David Lee Evans

Aashiish Agnihotri

Michael Dean Hughes

Thomas S Wolfe

Brian William McKinnon

Zachary Christopher Wilkinson

David C Kelman

Scott Kennedy Laster

Phillip E Frederick

Kevin Wayne Belew

James Curtis Gatewood

Bryan W Wuebker

Aziz Ali Bhai

Christopher Ryan O'Keefe

Keith R Kubicek

Andrew Justin Wald

James N Hoffmaster

Jennifer Allyn Griffin

Gregory W Branson

Eric R Meyer

Ryan Lloyd Landon

Neal Wiggermann

Jeffrey Joel Shea

Nicholas A Mann

Michael B Cooper

Maroun Hanna Tarsha

John Masonis

Darrell L Borgman

Richard Douglas Lambert

Nicholas C Batta

Stanley Tsai

Nathaniel M Quinn

Brian W Mckinnon

Lauren Jasper

Andrew Robert Kerr

Patrick Brian Conway

Kathryn R Smith

Justin Steve Conway

Mark Joseph Buisseret

Fengshuan Zhou

Michael Brian Cooper

James P Waddell

Christopher R O'KEEFE

Kevin W Belew

Brian Ronald Yokoo

John L Masonis

Phillip Frederick

Kevin Belew

A patient support apparatus includes a cushion, a cover arranged over a top side of the cushion, and a sensor unit. The sensor unit is coupled to the cover and arranged to underlie a patient supported on the cover. The sensor unit includes a sensor configured to detect conditions near the interface of a patient's skin with the cover.

Mattress cover sensor method

A patient-matched cutting block including a surface or point contact features adapted to at least partially conform to or reference a patient specific anatomy. The cutting block having guide slots configured for guiding the movement of cutting tools relative to the patient specific anatomy or features configured to mate to and guide standard cutting guides relative to patient specific anatomy in order to form plateau and eminence resections of the patient specific anatomy.

Patient-matched instrumentation and methods

A method for detecting occupant position change on a support surface includes establishing a rate of change of pressure in a head end test zone and in a foot end test zone, comparing the head end rate to at least one head end rate limit, comparing the foot end rate to at least one foot end rate limit, and inferring, in response to the comparing steps, whether or not occupant migration has occurred. An associated occupant support includes a frame and a mattress. The mattress includes head and foot zones each having at least one pressurizable bladder. The support also includes a controller adapted to compare a head end rate of pressure change to a head end rate limit, to compare a foot end rate of pressure change to a foot end rate limit, and to infer, in response to the comparing steps, whether or not occupant migration has occurred.

Occupant support with a migration sensitive bladder and method for migration detection

An occupant support includes a turn assist layer which includes left and right side arrays of two or more longitudinally distributed turn assist members. Each array member comprises one or more longitudinally distributed turn assist bladders. At least two of the array members on the left side are longitudinally spaced from each other by a left intermember reach-in space having a left intermember dimension. At least two of the array members on the right side are longitudinally spaced from each other by a right intermember reach-in space having a right intermember dimension. A support layer resides above the turn assist layer. The support layer includes a collapsible zone at least part of which overlies the intermember spaces. The occupant support also includes a user interface for enabling a user to operate the turn assist layer.

Occupant support with longitudinally spaced turn assist members, associated graphical user interface, and methods of providing access to portions of the occupant support or to occupants thereof

According to the present disclosure, a patient support system includes a patient support device having extension chambers and a deck including extendable side deck portions. Upon caregiver selection, the side deck portions extended and retract by inflation and deflation of the extension chambers to provide an extended patient support surface.

Air bladder control of mattress/frame width expansion

A topper for a patient support surface includes an actively-cooled region that is positioned to deliver air flow under a specific area to provide localized treatment and/or moisture removal to a patient supported on the topper.

Topper for a patient surface with flexible fabric sleeves

Systems and methods to provide patient-specific cutting blocks that allow for bone resurfacing procedures, such as milling or burring, with simplified devices. A computer assisted surgical cutting block is produced having a surface region that matches with the surface region of a patient's bone to be altered. A cutting tool may be provided having a contoured bone mating surface and a contoured and patient-specific shaped cutting guide surface located in a plane above the bone mating surface. One or more channels are provided in the cutting block, and as the surgeon moves the cutting tool (a milling or burring, for example) in the channels, the tool cuts the bone both laterally along the surface of the bone and vertically into the bone according to the cutting guide surface and other preselected surface features of the cutting block.

Systems and methods for altering the surface of a bone

Patient-matched surgical instruments and associated methods having an anatomy facing side including several discrete, physically separate anatomy contacting portions configured to match the anatomy of a particular patient and including one or more of non-uniform in distribution, non-uniform in shape and non-uniform in surface area.

Patient-matched instruments

Patient-matched surgical instruments, and methods for making patient-matched surgical instruments, may include patient-matched surgical instruments having an anatomy facing side with several discrete, physically separate anatomy contacting portions configured to match the anatomy of a particular patient. The anatomy contacting portions may be one or more of non-uniform in distribution, non-uniform in shape or non-uniform in surface area.

Systems and methods utilizing patient-matched instruments

Instruments for use in anterior approach total hip arthroplasty. Instruments according to certain embodiments of the invention connect to a shaping member such as a broach, reamer or osteotome that is used to prepare the intramedullary canal of a desired femur or other bone for total hip arthroplasty. Such an instrument according to such embodiments can be configurable to allow operation on either the left or right leg, and in doing so to provide lateral offset and anterior offset of the instrument handle relative to the shaping member so that the patient's gut, musculature or other bodily portions may be avoided while still providing desired leverage and control over the shaping member to prepare the intramedullary canal.

Universal double offset surgical instrument

A partial rim implant for an acetabulum in a pelvic bone comprises a ridge, a bearing surface, and a fixation surface. The ridge is oriented to replace a labrum. The bearing surface is configured to align with the articulating surface of the acetabulum. The bearing surface extends from the ridge toward the apex of the acetabulum. The fixation surface is configured to fix the implant to a prepared bone surface of the pelvic bone.

Methods and apparatus for FAI surgeries

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Southaven, MS, United States of America

Luke Andrew Gibson