A person support apparatus includes a support adapted to support thereon an occupant of the person support apparatus and a sensor configured to detect an ambient air characteristic. The sensor generates an output signal based on the detected characteristic and communicates the output signal to a controller. The controller is configured to receive the output signal from the sensor and determine a usability status of the person support apparatus. The usability status may include an indication that the person support apparatus is ready for use by an occupant, whether a potential hazard exists for an occupant of the person support apparatus, a cleaning status of the person support apparatus, or a location of the person support apparatus.

A smart wheel is provided, including a main body, at least one wheel body and a GPS module. The main body includes a pin and a wheel seat, and the wheel seat is connected with the pin. The at least one wheel body is pivoted to the wheel seat along an axial direction. The GPS module is arranged on the main body and includes a GPS chip.

A medical or organisation cart includes a clamping rail for attaching accessories. The cart is rectangular when viewed from above, with rounded corners. The cart includes corner profiles among which at least one is provided with a vertically extending undercut extending to a top surface or a worktop of the cart. The clamping rail has a tensioner, a counter hold element and a connection strap connecting the tensioner with the counter hold element and which the accessories may be attached to or hanged on. The tensioner may be positively connected with the corner profile at the vertical undercut, and the clamping rail may be fixedly attached to the cart and may be detached, both with the help of the tensioner. The clamping rail may be fixedly attached at any position of the vertical undercut and at a position of an adjacent corner profile corresponding to that first position.

A mobile interface cart including a storage tank for receiving effluent from a dialysis (e.g., hemodialysis) procedure and a pump for pumping the effluent from the storage tank to an external waste drain located in the treatment center. In use, the pump enables the effluent to be moved over greater distances and/or around obstacles thereby eliminating, or at least minimizing, the need to construct expensive and time-consuming waste drains in the treatment center.

At least one robotic arm is coupled to an instrument and docked to a cannula. The cannula includes a first location of the cannula and a second location of the cannula. The at least one robotic arm is capable of entering a guided mode whereby a remote center of motion changes from the first location of the cannula to the second location of the cannula, and wherein an alert associated with the guided mode informs a user of entry into the guided mode.

A system and method for variable damping of a hand-controlled input device, thereby providing damped control of a medical tool (e.g., for teleoperation), is disclosed. The system includes a robotic user interface and a control unit for applying different variable damping coefficients to the robotic user interface based on one or more variables. The robotic user interface includes one or more links and one or more joints that cooperate to facilitate remote manipulation of a medical tool. The control unit is configured to receive motion information from the one or more joints, determine a damping modifier from a plurality of different damping modifiers based on the received motion information, apply the determined damping modifier to at least one joint of the one or more joints to modify a force or torque of the at least one joint during a manipulation of the medical tool.

A method may include identifying a shift associated with a clinician by applying a machine learning model trained to identify, based on a series of transaction records associated with the clinician, one or more shifts associated with the clinician. The clinician may be identified as likely to engage in a hazardous behavior based at least on the shift associated with the clinician. In response to determining that the clinician as likely to engage in the hazardous behavior, activating a protective workflow. The protective workflow may be configured to prevent the clinician from engaging in the hazardous behavior as well as to collect evidence associated with the hazardous behavior. Related methods and articles of manufacture are also disclosed.

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.

An inventory tracking system includes storage modules that hold one or more items. Each item is positionable at locations within the storage modules independent of physical characteristics of the item. Inventory monitoring modules are included to monitor storage modules for adding an item, retrieving an item, consuming of the item, returning an unused item, discarding at least a portion of a consumed item, or combinations thereof. Each act is used to determine information about items utilized in the act, including the location within the storage modules of the items. Each storage module updates a central inventory database about a location of the storage module, a revised inventory of the items stored within the storage modules, or both. The location of the storage modules, the revised inventory of the items stored within the storage modules, or both, is used to order a replenishment of the items held within the storage modules.

A collection system for collecting outflow from a hysteroscopic surgical procedure includes a plurality of collection vessels each including a flexible body defining an internal volume and transitionable between a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration. The collection system further includes connection tubing coupling adjacent collection vessels with one another, outflow tubing coupled to at least one of the collection vessels, and a plurality of retention canisters. Each retention canister includes a rigid body. Each collection vessel is configured to engage a corresponding retention canister such that each rigid body at least partially receives one of the flexible bodies therein.