Patent ID: 6854140
Filing Date: 2005-02-15
Classification: A61B,A61G

Abstract:
1. A medical examination/treatment system comprising: a plurality of medical devices selected from the group consisting of examination devices and treatment devices, each of said medical devices having a region adapted to interact with a patient and a patient support mechanism, each patient support mechanism having a patient bed removably engageable therewith adapted to receive a patient thereon with the head of the patient disposed at a first end of the patient bed and the feet of the patient disposed at a second, opposite end of the patient bed, each support mechanism being operable to move the patient support bed into and out of said region of the associated medical device, and each of said patient beds for the respective support mechanisms associated with the respective medical devices being differently configured; and a transport carriage movable independently of each of said medical devices for transporting the respective patient beds to and from the respective medical devices, said transport carriage being configured to receive each of said differently configured patient beds, with the first end of each patient bed being disposed in non-coupling fashion with a first end of said transport carriage and the second end of each of said patient beds being coupled to said transport carriage at a second opposite end of said transport carriage.