Patent ID: 8352007
Filing Date: 2013-01-08
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. Apparatus comprising: a housing having a front and back, a screen at the front for displaying graphical or numerical representations of sensed physical attributes of a patient, said housing having one connector adapted to mate with a sensor connector of a sensor assembly, the sensor connector electrically connected to a sensor of the sensor assembly which is attachable to the patient to sense at least one physical attribute of the patient, said housing further having a cavity defined by a cavity portion at the back of said housing configured to accept any one of a plurality of covers of different dimensions adapted to retain a corresponding plurality of sensors of different dimensions, said any one cover is removably affixed to said cavity portion until a predetermined force is applied to remove it from said cavity portion, said any one cover dimensioned to fittingly accept only a corresponding sensor of a given dimension from the plurality of sensors of different dimensions that once placed in said receptacle is securely held therein unless deliberately removed therefrom.