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EP2446870A2
EP2446870A2 EP11187060A EP11187060A EP2446870A2 EP 2446870 A2 EP2446870 A2 EP 2446870A2 EP 11187060 A EP11187060 A EP 11187060A EP 11187060 A EP11187060 A EP 11187060A EP 2446870 A2 EP2446870 A2 EP 2446870A2
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61G—TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES
    • A61G3/00—Ambulance aspects of vehicles; Vehicles with special provisions for transporting patients or disabled persons, or their personal conveyances, e.g. for facilitating access of, or for loading, wheelchairs
    • A61G3/001—Vehicles provided with medical equipment to perform operations or examinations
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61G—TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES
    • A61G2210/00—Devices for specific treatment or diagnosis
    • A61G2210/50—Devices for specific treatment or diagnosis for radiography
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61G—TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES
    • A61G3/00—Ambulance aspects of vehicles; Vehicles with special provisions for transporting patients or disabled persons, or their personal conveyances, e.g. for facilitating access of, or for loading, wheelchairs
    • A61G3/008—Ventilation, sterilisation or air conditioning aspects
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61G—TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES
    • A61G7/00—Beds specially adapted for nursing; Devices for lifting patients or disabled persons
    • A61G7/10—Devices for lifting patients or disabled persons, e.g. special adaptations of hoists thereto
    • A61G7/104—Devices carried or supported by
    • A61G7/1042—Rail systems

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  • the present invention relates to a medical vehicle.
  • the vehicle according to the invention particularly applies to home help to patients suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
  • ALS amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
  • amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a neurological degenerative disorder also known as "motor neuron disease”, “Charcot disease” or “Lou Gehrig's disease”.
  • the incidence is of about 2 cases on 100.000 individuals whose average onset age is between 50 and 80 years.
  • Lombardia about 300 individuals in the provinces of Milano, Como and Lecco (with an overall increase of 75-100 new cases/year).
  • the disease depending on the beginning, can cause difficulties in speaking, swallowing, breathing (a symptom becoming increasingly more important is dyspnoea) and muscular alteration/degeneration until complete paralysis.
  • the present invention aims at providing a medical vehicle capable of assisting patients suffering from ALS, comatose-state patients, patients that have suffered for cerebral haemorrhages, etc.
  • Another aim of the invention is to provide a medical vehicle capable of managing the new acute phases to which the patients can be subjected to a substantially domestic level, thus reducing the overall number of emergency calls with sure hospitalisation.
  • Another aim of the invention is to provided a medical vehicle that can facilitate adaptation of the ventilator to the patient at home.
  • a further aim of the invention is to provide a medical vehicle that can allow the patent to be quickly settled at home with the greatest assistance and in particular in case of ventilator-dependent patients that otherwise would have to remain in hospital for an indeterminate period of time.
  • the medical vehicle 1, as mentioned above, is advantageously used for assistance in situ, i.e. substantially assistance at home, of patients suffering from greatly debilitating pathologies, such as ALS, serious respiratory disorders, comatose state, cerebral haemorrhages, complex disability, and of patients subjected to non-invasive or invasive ventilation or oxygen therapy.
  • pathologies such as ALS, serious respiratory disorders, comatose state, cerebral haemorrhages, complex disability, and of patients subjected to non-invasive or invasive ventilation or oxygen therapy.
  • Vehicle 1 ( Figs. 1 , 1a , 2 , 4 , 4a ) is a powered vehicle, substantially similar to a van.
  • Powering can be of any nature.
  • the type of engine and the performance features thereof will be also selected depending on the load that has to be carried. In the following specification it will be possible to appreciate which can be the components of such a load.
  • Vehicle 1 first of all comprises a bearing and actuation structure 2 that, as said, can be similar to that of a conventional vehicle for road haulage.
  • Vehicle 1 further comprises an operating compartment 3 in which the necessary instruments for medical effectiveness are advantageously housed.
  • the operating compartment 3 can have a substantially parallelepiped conformation.
  • the volume can be substantially equal to about 20 m 3 , for example.
  • an examination coach (“examination coach” in Figs. 1 and 1a ) is housed, on which the patient can be laid during the treatment received in the medical vehicle 1.
  • the examination coach can be removably put on a base surface or bottom surface of the operating compartment 3; in particular, the examination coach can be equipped with a plurality of wheels or rollers mounted to the base of the examination coach itself to enable movement of same. This movement is useful, by way of example, for carrying the patient from his house to the inside of the operating compartment.
  • a night bed (“night bed” in Figs. 1 and 1a ) is provided in the operating compartment 3 .
  • Fig. 1 shows the night bed in a non-operating configuration in which it is positioned in such a manner as to reduce the room taken up. When it is in this configuration, the night bed is not used.
  • the night bed in the non-operating configuration, the night bed is disposed in such a manner that its planar extension is substantially parallel to the partition panel separating the operating compartment 3 from the driver cab.
  • Fig. 1a shows the same night bed in an operating configuration, in which the bed is positioned in such a manner that it can be used.
  • the night bed is such disposed that its planar extension is transverse, and in particular substantially perpendicular, to the aforesaid partition panel.
  • non-operating and operating configurations of the night bed are also shown in Figs. 4 and 4a , respectively.
  • the non-operating configuration is identified by the only inscription "night bed”
  • Fig. 4a the operating configuration is identified by the inscription "open night bed”.
  • FIG. 3 Said partition panel is diagrammatically shown in Fig. 3 .
  • the night bed that in order to indicate the modes of engaging it to the partition panel is identified by the inscription "disappearing tiltable bed".
  • this inscription is also reproduced in Fig. 2 .
  • the night bed or disappearing tiltable bed can be useful to enable the members of the family of the patient utilising vehicle 1 to rest, if necessary.
  • the night bed or disappearing tiltable bed can be used by the medical staff, should it be necessary.
  • a patient lifting device or patient lifter (patient lifter" in Figs. 1 and 1a ).
  • This device can be used for transferring the patient from a stretcher or other provisional transport means used for carrying the patient, to the aforesaid examination coach.
  • the patient lifting device is in engagement with one or more rails fastened to the top wall of the operating compartment 3.
  • the patient lifting device is configured for running along said rails, so as to enable the necessary shifts at the inside of compartment 3.
  • the rail (or rails) on which the patient lifting device can run is substantially parallel to the major longitudinal extension of the operating compartment 3.
  • Fig. 5 Also shown in Fig. 5 is lighting means ("overhead lights”) enabling availability of the light necessary to perform the required operations inside the operating compartment.
  • lighting means overhead lights
  • a X-ray apparatus (rx" in Figs. 1 and 1a ) is positioned inside the operating compartment 3.
  • the X-ray apparatus is able to take radiograms in situ, so as to enable the medical staff to dispose of the necessary radiograms substantially immediately.
  • the X-ray apparatus can be a multipurpose X-ray apparatus for taking an X-ray of the thorax, the bone sectors, etc.
  • Positioning of the X-ray apparatus can be understood also looking at Fig. 5 .
  • an "analyser” and/or a “coagulation apparatus” are also provided inside the operating compartment 3 .
  • an “analyser” and/or a “coagulation apparatus” are also provided inside the operating compartment 3 .
  • the analyser enables the medical staff present therein to perform the necessary chemical/biological analyses for treatment of the patient.
  • the coagulation apparatus is advantageously used by the medical staff to help in coagulation operations.
  • wash-basin in Figs. 1 and 1a ) that can be advantageously used by the medical staff for any need.
  • a container for water collection is advantageously associated with the wash-basin.
  • a thermal air-conditioning/heating unit (“air-conditioning/heating unit” in Figs. 1 and 1a ) is mounted on top of the operating compartment 3.
  • air-conditioning/heating unit By means of this thermal unit a comfortable temperature for both the patient and the medical staff can be maintained inside the operating staff 3. Positioning of the thermal unit can be understood also looking at Fig. 6 .
  • a plurality of revolving spotlights (generally known as “flashing lights") is mounted on top of the operating compartment 3.
  • flashing lights generally known as "flashing lights”
  • four revolving spotlights are provided, each mounted in the vicinity of the corners of the rectangular top surface of the operating compartment 3.
  • a plurality of search beacons is mounted on top of the operating compartment 3 .
  • two search beacons are provided, mounted each at the longitudinal ends of the rectangular top surface of the operating compartment 3, at a substantially central position.
  • a camera is mounted on top of the operating compartment 3, at the longitudinal end of the rectangular top surface of the operating compartment 3 opposite to the driver cab.
  • the camera is mounted at a substantially central position, as diagrammatically shown in Fig. 6 .
  • This camera is advantageously used by the driver of the medical vehicle 1 during movement of same and in particular during operations requiring control of the presence of obstacles in the vicinity of the rear part of the vehicle 1 itself.
  • an electric generator is associated with the operating compartment 3, to supply all the devices/apparatus used in the operating compartment with electric power.
  • the electric generator is denoted in Figs. 2 and 3 as "tec-30 generator”.
  • vehicle 1 is provided with a movable footboard or electrohydraulic footboard ("electrohydraulic footboard” in Fig. 5 ) having a tiltable operation, mounted at the rear end of the operating compartment 3.
  • electrohydraulic footboard electrohydraulic footboard
  • This footboard can be advantageously used to enable access to the operating compartment to patients carried in a wheelchair.
  • This movable footboard can also be used for patients carried in a stretcher.
  • the medical staff can instead have access to the operating compartment 3 through a lateral access.
  • the operating compartment can be also provided with cabinets, windows and refrigerator for conservation of prostheses and drugs as well as with shelves for housing medical instruments.
  • all walls of the operating compartment 3 are covered with a layer of a lead-based material so as to insulate the external environment from the radiation emitted when X-ray apparatuses are used for taking radiograms.
  • the possible windows will be made of an appropriate material such as anti-radiation glass sealed with lead.
  • the medical vehicle 1 has an electric connection with the outside to support or replace the aforesaid generator at least temporarily.
  • the medical vehicle 1 has a connection with the outside for supplying drinking water to the inside of the operating compartment 3.
  • the medical vehicle 1 has a connection with the outside for supplying oxygen (O 2 ) to the inside of the operating compartment 3.
  • O 2 oxygen
  • the medical vehicle 1 is provided with a radio connection for remote communication exchange.
  • vehicle 1 is equipped with a television system for receiving television programs so as to enable the patients to take advantage of same.
  • the medical vehicle 1 is provided with solar panels, in particular with photovoltaic panels, suitably associated with one or more inverters and one or more batteries for electric energy storage. In this way, the medical vehicle 1 can be self-governing and independent in terms of energy over long periods of time.
  • one or more of the following devices or instruments can be provided inside the operating compartment 3:
  • the operating compartment can be equipped for carrying out surgical interventions of the outpatient type too (e.g. tracheotomies).
  • the operating compartment 3 can be provided with a computerised station, for managing and controlling one or more devices/instruments indicated in the present specification.
  • the detected data can be sent, through the computerised station, to processors connected thereto through a remote connection so as to make said data reach qualified staff capable of offering immediate medical advice.
  • the data are encrypted before transmission.
  • one or more of the devices/instruments mentioned in the present specification are mounted inside the operating compartment 3 in a removable manner. In this way, these devices/instruments can be easily carried inside the patient's house in case transfer of the patient inside the operating compartment 3 is not appropriate.
  • the invention achieves important advantages.
  • the medical vehicle herein described and claimed allows services to be provided that include periodical home visits/examinations enabling the patient's necessities to be analysed following a predetermined frequency and these necessities to be faced by suitable treatments preventing arising of emergency situations that, obviously, can only cause discomfort, problems and complications.

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