Patent ID: 7192188

Claim:
An apparatus for conducting a medical procedure on a plurality of patients respectively disposed at a plurality of different locations, comprising: a medical device having a component for implementing a medical procedure; a transport device connected to said component for moving said component to the respective locations; a pre-assembled transport track engaging said transport device and proceeding to each of said plurality of different locations, said transport device being movable along said transport track to each of said plurality of different locations; a memory containing stored information regarding each patient in said plurality of patients, and stored sets of parameters for operating said medical device to implement a medical procedure at each location in said plurality of different locations; a positioning device that aligns said component to one of said locations in said plurality of locations and that unambiguously identifies said one of said locations; and a control unit that interacts with said positioning device and said memory to identify the patient at said one of said locations and to cause said medical device to implement a medical procedure using the stored set of parameters for said one of said locations.