Patent ID: 8499503

Claim:
A hospital equipment system comprising a head wall of a room, a blanket, a thermoregulation unit housed in the head wall, and at least one hose coupled to the blanket and coupled to the thermoregulation unit, a medium being moved between the blanket and the thermoregulation unit through the at least one hose, the medium being one of cool liquid, cool air, heated liquid, and heated air, and a hospital bed spaced from the head wall, the bed including a pendant controller that a patient uses while lying in bed to control the thermoregulation unit in a desired manner when the pendant controller is not locked out, wherein the pendant controller also is used to control other bed functions, the thermoregulation unit also being controllable by a computer located remotely from said room in which the head wall, the blanket, the thermoregulation unit, and the hospital bed are situated.