US 12,324,776 B2
Patient support apparatus for treating patients presenting behavioral health indicia
Lavanya Vytla, McKinney, TX (US); Matthew A. Cutler, Portage, MI (US); Michael William Graves, Paw Paw, MI (US); Paul Mandruch Radgens, Vicksburg, MI (US); Christopher Ryan Sweeney, Portage, MI (US); and Madhu Sandeep Thota, Portage, MI (US)
Assigned to Stryker Corporation, Portage, MI (US)
Filed by Stryker Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI (US)
Filed on Apr. 28, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/140,728.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/335,863, filed on Apr. 28, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0346615 A1, Nov. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. A61G 7/05 (2006.01)
CPC A61G 7/0524 (2016.11) [A61G 7/0526 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A patient support apparatus for use in treating patients with behavioral health indicia, the patient support apparatus comprising:
a support structure including a patient support deck defining a patient support surface, the support structure including one or more ligature risk locations arranged outside of a ligature safety zone defined relative to the patient support surface;
a sensor system coupled to the support structure to generate data representing load acting on the support structure; and
a controller disposed in communication with the sensor system and configured to issue a ligature risk event alert in response to the data generated by the sensor system satisfying a predetermined load criteria indicating a distribution of load acting on the support structure outside of the ligature safety zone for a predetermined period.