Patent ID: 6155260
Filing Date: 2000-12-05
Classification: A61G,B60P

Abstract:
A system for delivering medically related utilities to a treatment platform from a plurality of different sites comprising:a treatment platform having an onboard service junction including an array of ports grouped together for receiving a plurality of medically related utilities;a plurality of offboard service junctions including arrays of ports grouped together for delivering the medically related utilities;said plurality of offboard service junctions being located at a plurality of different sites and being connected to a supply of the medically related utilities;at least one umbilicus containing a bundle of lines for conveying the medically related utilities and having a first head end that is engageable with said offboard service junctions for receiving the medically related utilities and a second head end that is engageable with said onboard service junction of the treatment platform for delivering the medically related utilities to said treatment platform; andat least one of said first and second head ends being disengageable from one of said service junctions and being engageable with another of said service junctions for supplying the same medically related utilities to the treatment platform from more than one of said plurality of different sites.