US 11,666,498 B2
Patient support apparatus with equipment weight log
Kurosh Nahavandi, Portage, MI (US); David Buick, Portage, MI (US); Placide Nibakuze, Kalamazoo, MI (US); Sujay Sukumaran, Portage, MI (US); Celso Henrique Farnese Pires Pereira, Portage, MI (US); and Ian Christopher Geiman, South Lyon, MI (US)
Assigned to Stryker Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI (US)
Filed by Stryker Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI (US)
Filed on Aug. 13, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/992,515.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/885,954, filed on Aug. 13, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0045951 A1, Feb. 18, 2021
Int. Cl. A61G 7/05 (2006.01)
CPC A61G 7/0527 (2016.11) [A61G 2203/16 (2013.01); A61G 2203/20 (2013.01); A61G 2203/32 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A patient support apparatus comprising:
a litter frame;
a support deck supported on the litter frame and adapted to support a patient thereon;
a plurality of force sensors adapted to output signals corresponding to downward forces exerted on the support deck;
a display; and
a controller in operative communication with the plurality of force sensors and the display, the controller configured to display on the display an equipment weight indicator comprising a first numeric value representing a total weight of equipment added to or removed from the support deck and entered into a weight log and a patient weight indicator comprising a second numeric value representative of a current patient weight of the patient supported by the support deck based on readings from the plurality of force sensors;
wherein the controller is adapted to characterize the second numeric value as being an accurate patient weight or as possibly including non-patient weight not yet entered into the weight log, and to display a warning message if the second numeric value is characterized as possibly including non-patient weight not yet entered into the weight log.