Abstract: A robotic intravenous automation system, including a robotically controlled holder configured to manipulate an intravenous (IV) bag and a closed system transfer device (CSTD). The controller includes a processor configured to control the holder. The IV bag includes a first fluid port and a second fluid port, and the CSTD includes a CSTD port, a spike adapter that is fluidically separated from the CSTD port, and a flexible member connecting the CSTD port to the spike adapter.

Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, an Automated Pharmacy Admixture System (APAS) may include a manipulator system to transport medical containers such as bags, vials, or syringes in a compounding chamber regulated to a pressure below atmospheric pressure. In a preferred implementation, the manipulator system is configured to grasp and convey syringes, IV bags, and vials of varying shapes and sizes from a storage system in an adjacent chamber regulated at a pressure above atmospheric pressure. Various embodiments may include a controller adapted to actuate the manipulator system to bring a fill port of an IV bag, vial, or syringe into register with a filling port at a fluid transfer station in the chamber. A preferred implementation includes a sanitization system that can substantially sanitize a bung on a fill port of a vial or IV bag in preparation for transport to the fluid transfer station.

Abstract: One or more horizontally disposed, vertically spaced raceways have passageways for medical gases and electrical wiring which may communicate with a vertical chase at the ends of the raceways which contain conduits for such gases and wiring. The gases are piped inside a compartment at the top of the raceway and then by branch pipes to outlets on the front or the bottom of the raceway. Wiring of different voltages are contained in vertically spaced passageways in the back of the raceway and are electrically connected to socket outlets at convenient intervals on the front. Vertical separators isolate the various voltage wires from each other. Detachable covers provide access to the various compartments. Rails are formed on the exterior so that auxiliary eqipment may be clamped thereto at desired intervals.

Abstract: A mounting rail is attached, preferably horizontally to a wall or a hospital wall unit. The front of the rail has a longitudinal opening, the upper edge of the opening being offset downward. Inside the front of the bar the opening widens out upwardly and, to a lesser extent, downward. Longitudinal rounded cross-section grooves are formed in the top and bottom of the bar, spaced slightly inward from the front. Many different styles of clamps for hospital equipment brackets fit the rail. In one form of bracket clamp has a back face which fits flush with the front of the bar and has a top stud with a downward bead which fits into the top longitudinal groove. The bottom stud is rotatable and has a rounded cross section stud formed with a flat. When the flat is uppermost, the clamp may be removed or slid along the bar, but when turned away from the bar the clamp is locked. A twist dial on the front of the clamp turns the lower stud.

Abstract: The housing for the fixture is mounted on a wall over the patient's bed. The housing accommodates a first non-rotatable fixture which directs light from fluorescent tubes downward through a conventional flat prismatic lens. There is also a longitudinally extending lens mounted within the outline of the housing and rotatable by means of handles at either end so that light from a second set of fluorescent tubes may be adjusted to function as a reading lamp for the patient, as an examining light at different locations of the patient's body and as a room illumination source, the intensity of room illumination being adjustable. A safety switch is moved to "off" position when the housing is struck by an object such as an IV rod fixed to an adjustable bed to stop the motor which moves the bed.

Abstract: A bracket to support instruments, lamps and other equipment is detachably connected to the lipped channel used in hospital wall and cart constructions. The bracket has a hollow housing having a hole at one end to receive a rod on which the instrument is mounted with a set screw to hold the rod in place. The opposite end of the housing has a first projecting lug to fit inside one lip of the channel. A dog member fits inside the housing and has a projecting second lug to fit inside the other lip of the channel. An adjustment screw fits inside the housing and threadedly engages the dog to move the second lug toward and away from the first lug. When the lugs are close together, they may be inserted between the channel lips at any point along the length of the channel. By turning the adjustment screw, the second lug may be drawn away from the first lug to lock against the channel lips, securing the bracket in position.