Solution

Hospital Bed Weighing

There are some cases in hospitals and other medical environments where patients are immobile, but still need to be weighed by hospital staff.

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Summary

Customer Need / Challenge
There are some cases in hospitals and other medical environments where patients are immobile. Those who work in this field need a solution to weigh their patients while they remain in their hospital beds.
Interface Solution
Interface’s solution is to install their SSB Sealed Beam Load Cells within the frame of the hospital bed. The SSB load cells outputs are matched to each other (+/-0.1%) and connected to the hospital bed controller system. The patients weight results are summed and displayed on the controller system.
Results
The weight of immobile patients were captured using Interface’s beam load cells.

Materials

SSB Sealed Beam Load Cells
Patient in hospital bed to be weighed
Customer’s control system

How it Works

SSB Sealed Beam Load Cells are installed inside of the hospital bed’s frame. The patient is weighed.
The he SSB load cells outputs are matched to each other (+/-0.1%) and connected to the hospital bed controller system. The weight of the immobile patient is signaled, summed, and displayed.

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Hospital Bed Weighing App Note