Patent ID: 7970631
Filing Date: 2011-06-28
Classification: A61B,A61M,G16H

Abstract:
1. A medical effector system comprising: a) a microprocessor-based bedside monitoring unit having a bedside-monitoring-unit host controller, having a first series of connection points for receiving patient inputs from patient monitoring connections, having a second series of connection points for outputting patient outputs based on the received inputs, and having a display screen for displaying at least some of the patient outputs; b) a microprocessor-based procedure room unit having a medical effector, and having a drug-delivery flow control assembly and a procedure-room-unit host controller with a memory containing a patient-monitoring and end-effector-scheduling program which is operatively connected to program inputs based at least in part on at least some of the patient outputs, and/or advises a user to control, the medical effector based at least in part on the program inputs, wherein the procedure room unit (PRU) has an individual PRU identifier and the bedside monitoring unit (BMU) has an individual BMU identifier; and c) an umbilical cable having a first end attached or attachable to the second series of connection points of the bedside monitoring unit and having a second end attached or attachable to the procedure room unit, wherein at least one of the first and second ends is detachable from the corresponding bedside monitoring unit or the procedure room unit, and wherein the procedure-room-unit host controller and the bedside-monitoring-unit host controller are operatively connected together when the umbilical cable is attached to the procedure room unit and the bedside monitoring unit.