Nipro Releases Patient Movement Detector for Preventing Accidents.Tokyo, Japan, Nov 16, 2005 - (JCNN JCNN Japan Corporate News Network ) - Nipro, a leading Japanese medical device manufacturer, announced on November 14 that it has developed Tento-Mushi, a system to detect patient movements and alert when the patient accidentally leaves a bed. The company began shipping the product to medical institutions nationwide on the same day. Based on a prototype detector detector: see particle detector. developed by Osaka City University Osaka City University (大阪市立大学 Ōsaka shiritsu daigaku , the new system connects a collar of the patient to the existing nurse call system by a clip, monitors the behavior of the patient and sends an alert to nurses or caretakers through the nurse call system when the patient tries to leave the bed. The company expects that the Tento-Mushi system will contribute to preventing patients, in particular the elderly or bedridden bed·rid·den or bed·rid adj. Confined to bed because of illness or infirmity. , from falling off the bed while reducing the burden on nurses and caretakers. One unit sells for 23,100 yen ($200). Source: JCN JCN Japan Corporate News JCN Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience JCN Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing JCN Journal of Christian Nursing JCN Job Control Number JCN Journal of Child Neurology JCN joint communications network (US DoD) http://www.japancorp.net Copyright [c] 2005 Japan Corporate News Network. All rights reserved. |
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