A wireless, patient-worn, physiological sensor configured to, among other things, help manage a patient that is at risk of forming one or more pressure ulcers is disclosed. According to an embodiment, the sensor includes a base having a top surface and a bottom surface. The sensor also includes a substrate layer including conductive tracks and connection pads, a top side, and a bottom side, where the bottom side of the substrate layer is disposed above the top side of the base. Mounted on the substrate layer are a processor, a data storage device, a wireless transceiver, an accelerometer, and a battery. In use, the sensor senses a patient's motion and wirelessly transmits information indicative of the sensed motion to, for example, a patient monitor. The patient monitor receives, stores, and processes the transmitted information.

A wireless, patient-worn, physiological sensor configured to, among other things, help manage a patient that is at risk of forming one or more pressure ulcers is disclosed. According to an embodiment, the sensor includes a base having a top surface and a bottom surface. The sensor also includes a substrate layer including conductive tracks and connection pads, a top side, and a bottom side, where the bottom side of the substrate layer is disposed above the top side of the base. Mounted on the substrate layer are a processor, a data storage device, a wireless transceiver, an accelerometer, and a battery. In use, the sensor senses a patient's motion and wirelessly transmits information indicative of the sensed motion to, for example, a patient monitor. The patient monitor receives, stores, and processes the transmitted information.

Described herein are systems and apparatuses for enhanced comfort through contact pressure reduction. In particular, the systems and apparatuses disclosed herein prevent or otherwise mitigate pressure by actively orienting a patient over an anatomy-specific pressure-mitigating contact surface on which the patient rests. A pressure-mitigating contact portion of the contact surface includes a plurality of independently pressurized chambers configured in a specific geometric pattern that is designed to mitigate contact pressure between a support surface (e.g., bed or chair) and a specific anatomic region of a patient's body when the specific anatomic region of the patient's body is oriented over an epicenter of the geometric pattern. Additionally, a plurality of elevated side support portions and a wedge interconnected on the base material are configured to actively orient the specific anatomic region of the patient's body over the epicenter of the geometric pattern.

Disclosed herein is a pressure-relief mattress comprising: a plurality of inflatable bladders; a pressure sensor pad arranged to detect pressure exerted on a subject, the pressure sensor pad comprising a plurality of pressure sensor cells being arranged in a matrix with at least one row and at least one column; a pressure-sensing electronic unit electrically connected with the plurality of pressure sensor cells; and a pressure-control electronic unit communicatively connected with the pressure-sensing electronic unit; wherein the pressure-sensing electronic unit is configured for generating a measurement result indicative of a pressure exerted upon the subject at one or more of the pressure sensor cells, the pressure control electronic unit is configured for controlling operation of one or more of the inflatable bladders according to the pressure measurement result.

Disclosed herein is a pressure-relief mattress comprising: a plurality of inflatable bladders; a pressure sensor pad arranged to detect pressure exerted on a subject, the pressure sensor pad comprising a plurality of pressure sensor cells being arranged in a matrix with at least one row and at least one column; a pressure-sensing electronic unit electrically connected with the plurality of pressure sensor cells; and a pressure-control electronic unit communicatively connected with the pressure-sensing electronic unit; wherein the pressure-sensing electronic unit is configured for generating a measurement result indicative of a pressure exerted upon the subject at one or more of the pressure sensor cells, the pressure control electronic unit is configured for controlling operation of one or more of the inflatable bladders according to the pressure measurement result.

A hybrid seating cushion made up of a cushion base and a cushion insert. The cushion base has a seating surface in which a void in or extending through the cushion base is formed. A cushion insert such as an air bladder or fluid sack is positioned within the void. A lip or upper surface around an opening in the void overhangs at least a portion of the cushion insert, thereby minimizing the size and corresponding negative effects of a transition area where the base and the insert overlap.

The present invention provides a medical nursing pad for preventing bedsores. The medical nursing pad comprises a surface layer, a core body layer and a bottom layer. The core body layer has a fluff pulp and a super absorbent polymer material, and is covered by toilet paper. A dotted SAP is distributed on the core body layer. The SAP absorbs and retains an infiltrating liquid in an inversely funnelled SAP absorption region in the core body layer to minimize the reverse osmosis amount of the liquid absorbed by the medical nursing pad. Meanwhile, vapour separated from the liquid reaches the bottom layer through a longitudinal vapour channel formed by a gap among fluff pulp fibres with a certain density range in the core body layer, and is expelled from the medical nursing pad through a nanoscale breathable micro-pore on the bottom layer.

A patient support apparatus, such as a hospital bed, communicates with an electronic medical record (EMR) system in healthcare facility. The hospital bed includes a patient support structure to support a patient, a graphical user interface coupled to the patient support structure, and control circuitry coupled to the graphical user interface. The graphical user interface displays at least one input that may be used by a caregiver to chart data into an electronic medical record (EMR) of a patient supported by the patient support structure.

A patient support apparatus, such as a bed, stretcher, cot, or the like, includes a frame, a support surface, a control, a controller, and a transceiver. The patient support apparatus employs one or more machine learning techniques to perform one or more of the following: automatically implement one or more user-preferred settings, automatically predict the occurrence of one or more events based on analyses of prior events, and/or automatically improve one or more algorithms based on analyses of additional sensor data. The machine learning techniques may be implemented onboard the patient support apparatus and/or may be implemented at a remote computer device (e.g. a server) that collates and analyzes data from multiple patient support apparatuses, and then sends the results of the analyses back to the patient support apparatuses.

The present invention relates to a mat for use in lateral positioning. The invention provides an inflatable mat for use in lateral positioning in angled lateral decubitus, the mat comprising: a mat foil with a longitudinal direction, the mat foil having an upper side and a first side extending in the longitudinal direction, and a second side extending in the longitudinal direction, a first longitudinal section, comprising one or more inflatable air chambers, being arranged on the upper side of the mat foil along the first side of the mat foil, and a second longitudinal section, comprising one or more inflatable air chambers, being arranged on the upper side of the mat foil along the second side of the mat foil, the mat foil having a centre in the longitudinal direction, one or more first transverse sections, each comprising one or more inflatable air chambers, being arranged successively in a row in the longitudinal direction, the first transverse sections extending from the centre out towards the first side, so that the one or more transverse sections are arranged lying above the first longitudinal section away from the mat foil, one or more second transverse sections, each comprising one or more inflatable air chambers, being arranged successively in a row in the longitudinal direction, the transverse sections extending from the middle out towards the second side, the transverse sections being arranged lying above the second longitudinal section away from the mat foil, wherein the first longitudinal section, the second longitudinal section and the one or more first transverse sections and the one or more second transverse sections are connected to one or more air ducts arranged in each of the inflatable air chambers of said longitudinal and transverse sections, wherein the longitudinal and transverse sections can be individually inflated, the first side of the mat having a total first lateral height, which is the sum of a height of the first longitudinal section in the inflated state and a height of the first transverse section in the inflated state, the second side of the mat having a total second lateral height, the second lateral height being the height of the second longitudinal section in the inflated state, or the second side of the mat having a total second lateral height, which is the sum of a height of the second longitudinal section in the inflated state and a height of the second transverse section in the inflated state, and the first side of the mat having a total first lateral height, the first lateral height being the height of the first longitudinal section in the inflated state.