JP2006074140A - Nurse call system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve a problem that it is required to increase a call tone volume of a nurse call master unit resulting in disturbing sleep of patients because a nurse is not always resident in a nurse center. <P>SOLUTION: A call tone is outputted even from an individual corridor light to decrease a call tone outputted from the nurse call master unit. Further, the individual corridor light provides no output of the call tone until a specified time elapses after the nurse call master unit is called so as to limit a production time of the call tone thereby preventing sleep of the patient from being disturbed. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a nurse call device, and in particular, when called from a nurse call cordless handset in a hospital room, a ringing tone sounds from the nurse call master phone, and is installed at the entrance of a hospital room after a predetermined time has elapsed since the start of the call. The present invention relates to a nurse call device in which a ringing tone is emitted from an individual corridor lamp.

Applicant makes an electronic sound or voice synthesis sound from the patient corridor lamp so that nurses in hospital rooms and corridors can see the call from the patient even if there is no nurse at the nurse center A nurse call system was provided. (Patent Document 1).

.... JP 2003-126183 A

According to the invention described in Patent Literature 1, it is possible to reduce the ringing tone of the nurse call parent device 1 so as not to disturb the sleep of the patient. However, the ringing tone emitted from the patient corridor lamp is not necessarily preferable for a patient who needs a quiet environment even if the ringing volume is small.

In the present invention, when the nurse call parent device is called from the nurse call slave device, the point that the ringing sound starts immediately is the same as that of the conventional nurse call device. Waiting for a specified time to elapse after the caller notices the ringing tone from the nurse call master unit and responds to the call, not only from the nurse call master unit but also from the individual corridor lamp It makes it sound.
It should be noted that the above-mentioned specified time is practically set based on the response time of the later one instead of the average in consideration of the actual response waiting time.

  According to the present invention, when the nurse call parent device receives a call in this way, first, a ringing tone is generated only from the nurse call parent device, and no ringing tone is generated from the individual corridor lamp.

Normally, when a ringing tone is heard at the nurse call master unit, nurses near the parent unit immediately notice the ringing tone and answer the call, so the ringing time is limited to a short time. In addition, since the specified time is not exceeded, the ring tone does not sound unnecessarily from the individual corridor lamp.

If a nurse happens to be away from the nurse center where the nurse call master unit is installed and the time elapses without noticing the ringing tone from the nurse call master unit, wait for the specified time to elapse. A ringing tone starts to sound from the individual corridor lights. If there is a nurse or the like in the hospital room or hallway, the user will notice the ringing sound coming out from the individual corridor lamp.

According to the present invention, since a ringing tone is generated from the individual corridor lamp, a dedicated call notification device is not required, and a large number of the individual corridor lamps are arranged at regular intervals in the ward. The entire ward can be covered with the notification sound.

The individual corridor light that generates the ringing tone can be limited to the individual corridor light in the specific hospital room where the call is made, or it can be limited to the individual corridor light in the vicinity including the specific hospital room. it can. It is also possible to target all hallway lights.

Further, when calling sounds from all individual corridor lights, simultaneous ringing may be used or they may be sounded one after another while switching in units of corridor lights. Which method is applied can be selected according to the structure of the ward, patient conditions, surrounding environment, and ringing volume conditions.

DESCRIPTION OF EXEMPLARY EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. The embodiments described below are preferred embodiments of the present invention, and thus various technically preferable limitations are given. However, the scope of the present invention is particularly limited in the following description. As long as there is no description which limits, it is not restricted to these aspects.

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a nurse call device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In the figure, 1 is a nurse call master unit installed in the nurse center, 2 is a personal corridor lamp provided at the entrance of the hospital room, 3 is a nurse call slave unit provided for each bed in the hospital room, 4 Is a hand-held push button, 5 is a hand-type slave unit, 12 is a speaker built in the individual corridor lamp 2 or the I / O unit 11, and 19 is a representative lamp.

6 is a ceiling microphone provided on the ceiling of a toilet, 7 is a ceiling speaker, 8 is a toilet button, 9 is a representative corridor lamp, 10 is a recovery button, and 11 is an I / O unit.

Next, wiring of each device will be described. A plurality of individual corridor lamps 2 for each hospital room are connected to the nurse call master unit 1. The nurse call handset 3 for each bed is connected to the individual corridor lamp 2. The nurse call handset 3 is connected with a grip push button 4 and a hand-type handset 5 used by the patient.

The I / O unit 11 is connected to the nurse call master unit 1 and is also connected to a ceiling microphone 6, a ceiling speaker 7, a toilet / bathroom push button 8, a representative corridor lamp 9, and a recovery button 10.

When the grip push button 4 is pressed, the patient's room number or name of the corresponding patient is displayed on the display screen of the nurse call parent device 1 and a ringing tone is generated.

In this case, the ringing tone emitted from the nurse call master unit 1 has a volume that can be heard in the nurse center. When there is a nurse or the like in the nurse center, the nurse can immediately pick up the handset and talk to the patient. The ringing tone stops when you first pick up the handset.

If there is no nurse in the nurse center and no one answers, the ringing tone continues.

When the specified time elapses after the ringing tone continues to ring, the ringing tone is emitted from the speaker 12 built in the individual corridor lamp 2 provided in the vicinity of the door of the patient's room. The patient can hear a ringing tone by his / her own operation.

Even when the toilet button 8 is pressed, a ringing tone is emitted from the I / O unit 11 when the specified time has elapsed.

A nurse in a hospital room or a corridor near the individual corridor lamp 2 or the I / O unit 11 can easily determine which hospital room or call is from the toilet, and can immediately go to the patient.

FIG. 2 is a circuit block diagram showing the individual corridor lamp portion in a circuit block diagram in one embodiment of the present invention.

The call signal of the nurse call slave unit 3 is transmitted to the control unit 14 via the slave unit connection unit 13. When receiving the call signal, the control unit 14 transmits the call signal to the nurse call parent device 1 via the input / output unit 15.

As described above, the nurse call master unit 1 displays the name and nursing information of the called patient and a ringing tone.

The individual corridor lamp 2 transmits / receives a calling signal to / from the nurse call master unit 1 and turns on the individual lamp 17 corresponding to the called nurse call slave unit 3 via the individual lamp control unit 16.

At the same time, the representative lamp 19 is blinked from the controller 14 via the representative lamp controller 18.

In the example shown in the figure, a timer 20 is connected to the representative lamp control unit 18, and power is supplied to the ringing tone generating circuit 21 by the action of the timer 20 when a certain period of time elapses after the representative lamp 19 starts lighting. Then, a ringing tone sounds from the speaker 12.

FIG. 3 shows a second embodiment, and the individual corridor lamp portion is shown in a circuit block diagram. In this embodiment, the personal corridor lamp 2 is not connected to the representative lamp controller 18 with a timer 20 unlike the embodiment shown in FIG.

In the embodiment of FIG. 3, the function of the timer circuit 20 is on the nurse call parent device 1 side. That is, in the main unit 1, when a call signal is received, an internal timer (not shown) is activated, and when a specified time elapses, a specific individual corridor lamp 2 in a call state is designated and a ringing tone is generated. The identification signal of the individual corridor lamp 2 and the ringing tone generation signal are transmitted.

In the individual corridor lamp 2 designated by the identification signal, an activation signal is sent to the ringing tone generation circuit 21 from the control unit 14 that has received the ringing tone generation signal via the input / output unit 15, and the ringing tone is output from the speaker 12. . In the case of this embodiment, the ringing tone emitted from the individual corridor lamp 2 is controlled by the reception of the ringing tone generation signal transmitted from the nurse call master unit 1, so that the timer 20 shown in the embodiment of FIG. do not need.

In this embodiment, since the individual call corridor lamp 2 for ringing the ringing tone can be arbitrarily designated in the nurse call master unit 1, the ringing tone is limited to the individual corridor lamp 2 of the called nurse call slave unit 3. Or a ringing tone only for the individual individual corridor lamp 2 and the individual individual corridor lamp 2 installed in the vicinity thereof, or a ringing sound is generated from all the individual individual corridor lamps 2 You can specify as follows.

How to specify may be determined as a default value in the program of the nurse call master unit 1, or a plurality of values corresponding to the specified range of the individual corridor lamp 2 that causes the nurse call master unit 1 to generate a ringing tone An operation button may be prepared so that a ringing tone can be selected from which individual corridor lamp 2 depending on which operation button is selected.

2 and 3, the individual corridor lamp has been mainly described. However, since the I / O unit 11 can also ring similarly, the present invention can be applied to the I / O unit as it is. Applicable.

The block diagram of the nurse call apparatus in one Example of this invention. (Example 1) The circuit block diagram of the nurse call apparatus which shows one Example of this invention. (Example 1) The circuit block diagram of the nurse call apparatus which shows one Example of this invention. (Example 2)

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Nurse call main | base station 2 Personal corridor lamp 3 Nurse call subunit | mobile_unit 11 I / O unit 12 Speaker 13 subunit | mobile_unit connection part 14 Control part 15 Input / output part 16 Individual lamp control part 17 Individual lamp 18 Representative lamp control part 19 Representative lamp 20 timer 21 ringing tone generation circuit 22

Claims (5)

In conjunction with the call operation of the nurse call slave unit, the representative lamp of the individual corridor lamp (including the I / O unit, the same applies hereinafter) is turned on or blinked, and the nurse call master unit provides information on the nurse call slave unit. In the nurse call device that notifies the calling state by sounding a ringing tone while displaying, a speaker is provided in the individual corridor lamp, and a timer that starts timing from the call start time of the individual corridor lamp and the nurse call master unit The nurse call device is characterized in that the elapsed call time is timed and, when the specified time has elapsed, the ringing sound is emitted from the speaker while the representative lamp is kept on or blinking. 2. The nurse call device according to claim 1, wherein the timer is built in the individual corridor lamp and is operated by an output of a representative lamp control circuit for controlling a lighting state of the representative lamp. The timer is built in the nurse call master unit, and after an elapse of a specified time since the nurse call master unit is in a calling state, an identification signal for identifying this and a ringing tone generation signal are transmitted to the individual corridor lamp. 2. The nurse call device according to claim 1, wherein a ringing tone is emitted from a speaker of a designated individual corridor lamp. The nurse call device according to claim 3, wherein the identification signal includes a collective designation signal capable of collectively designating individual corridor lights. 4. The nurse call device according to claim 3, wherein the identification signal includes a range designation signal capable of designating a plurality of individual corridor lamps of adjacent hospital rooms as adjacent ranges in addition to the individual corridor lamp of the called hospital room.