To be self-propelled in a simple configuration and to perform manual operation smoothly and briskly. A driving wheel includes: a base portion; a rotating shaft (first shaft) rotatably provided with respect to the base portion; a rotation member rotatably provided around the rotating shaft; a drive shaft (second shaft) provided on the rotation member orthogonally to the rotating shaft; a drive wheel provided on the rotation member and rotatable around the drive shaft; a drive unit provided on the rotation member and configured to rotationally drive the drive wheel; and a lock mechanism configured to permit rotation of the rotation member with respect to the base portion, and meanwhile, to deter the rotation of the rotation member with respect to the base portion.

A vertical protective device for a medical display hanger comprises a contact piece (1), a microswitch (2), a rotating shaft (3) and a vertical protective plate (4), wherein the contact piece (1) is connected to one end of the rotating shaft (3), the vertical protective plate (4) is connected to the other end of the rotating shaft (3), and the microswitch (2) is arranged on a microswitch support (10); and when a collision of the vertical protective plate (4) happens, the rotating shaft (3) drives the contact piece (1) to rotate, and the contact piece (1) triggers the microswitch (2), so as to control the medical display hanger (30) to stop moving or immediately rise. When an accidental collision of the medical display hanger (30) happens in a substantially vertical direction, the medical display hanger (30) can effectively come to an emergency stop or avoid.

A holding device for holding a portable medical appliance and for introducing it into a mounting rail includes a main body with a main face and at least one guide element having a guide profile, the at least one guide element being formed along a longitudinal axis of the main body and extending from the main body in an insertion direction. The at least one guide element is introducible into a guide in the mounting rail. The holding device also includes at least one fixing member for fixing the portable medical appliance to the holding device via an adapter, a locking mechanism that is movable at least partially in the insertion direction between a first and second locking positions, and at least one clamping mechanism, the clamping mechanism being movable at least partially in the insertion direction between first and second clamping positions.

The present disclosure provides a coupling system for coupling a medical accessory to an accessory support is provided. The present disclosure also provides a system for powering a medical accessory with an accessory support.

An apparatus and method for storing medical products such as pharmaceutical and medical products in climate controlled storage devices includes climate control systems in communication with inventory access and tracking systems.

An apparatus and method for storing medical products such as pharmaceutical and medical products in climate controlled storage devices includes climate control systems in communication with inventory access and tracking systems.

The disclosure relates to a medical imaging supply transport cart having enhanced safety features and a process implementing the same. The medical imaging supply transport cart includes a support surface configured to support medical imaging supplies, the support surface further configured to support a support mechanism, and the support mechanism further configured to support the medical imaging supplies. The support mechanism further configured to rigidly hold the medical imaging supplies with a first holding mechanism, the medical imaging supplies configured to store at least one dose of a nuclear medicine, a plurality of wheels arranged below the support surface, at least one door configured to enclose the medical imaging supplies, and a handle configured to be grasped by a user to guide the medical imaging supply transport cart.

A risk evaluation system is provided with an imager and a controller. The imager takes images at different times of equipment having zones that do not overlap each other, and outputs the images that are taken. The controller detects a contact count of a number of times a living body contacts each of the zones in accordance with the images, decides evaluation information about a contact infection risk in each of the zones in accordance with the contact count, and outputs the evaluation information.

A nurse call system that enables a call for a nurse from anywhere in a hospital ward while a patient carries a mobile phone is provided. The nurse call system includes a plurality of patient mobile phones 10 are carried by hospitalized patients and connected to a controller 8 via a base station 12 as with nurse mobile phones 9, and each patient mobile phone 10 has a hospital room ID and a nurse call slave device ID registered therein for recognizing a bed location of the patient carrying the patient mobile phone 10, thus enabling a nurse call operation for transmitting a call signal with the hospital room ID and the slave device ID added thereto, to the nurse call master device 7 and at least one of the nurse mobile phones 9, through a predetermined operation.

A system that monitors various conditions of a plurality of hospital beds located in different rooms of a healthcare facility is provided. Alternatively or additionally, other types of equipment may be monitored by the system. Various configurations of network interface units that are coupleable to or integrated into a hospital bed are also disclosed. The system receives data from the hospital beds and/or other equipment and initiates a communication to a wireless communication device of at least one designated caregiver in response to the received data being indicative of an alarm condition.