Patent ID: 6846042

Claim:
A chair having a first side and a second side laterally spaced apart from the first side, the chair comprising a frame, a patient support carried by the frame and positioned to lie between the first and second sides of the chair, the patient support including articulating back, seat and leg sections which are movable between a sitting-up position and a generally coplanar table position, the patient support being movable to a Trendelenburg position when the patient support is in the table position, the seat section including a generally upwardly-facing seat-support surface, an arm rest mounted to the first side of the chair and including an upwardly-facing arm-support surface, the arm-support surface being movable and positionable between a lowered position generally coplanar with a plane defined by the seat-support surface and a raised position above the plane defined by the seat-support surface, a gush bar coupled to the back section, and a tilt lever coupled to one of the back section and the push bar for movement between a locking Position and a releasing position, wherein the patient support is movable to the Trendelenburg position when the patient support is locked in the table Position and the tilt lever is moved to the releasing position.