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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2021
Umano Medical Inc., L'Islet, CA;
Steve Bolduc, Beaumont, CA;
Etienne St-Pierre, Quebec, CA;
David Moreno, Quebec, CA;
Gabriel Mercier, Saint-Vallier, CA;
Esther Berthelot, Levis, CA;
UMANO MEDICAL INC., L'Islet, CA;
Abstract
A method for detecting an exit of a patient from a hospital bed, the method comprising: detecting a presence of the patient on the bed, upon detection of the patient on the bed, monitoring an indication that the patient has moved from a predetermined patient area on a patient receiving surface of the bed to outside the predetermined patient area, upon detection that the patient has moved outside the predetermined patient area, activating a bed alarm to indicate to a user that an exit of the patient from the hospital bed has been detected, and after monitoring the indication that the patient has moved from the predetermined patient area and further upon receiving a pause command, suspending monitoring the indication that the patient has moved from the predetermined patient area. There is also provided a system for detecting an exit of a patient from a hospital bed.