Mobile and flexible intensive care unit

Claim 1

A self-contained mobile instrumentation unit for intensive care in a hospital, including a frame member having a width not substantially in excess of the width of a patient bed, said frame having a front and back defining a depth, sides defining the width, and a top and bottom defining a height, a roller mounted base at the bottom of such frame member, a unitary electronic monitoring package removably positioned in the front of said frame member, said package having a transverse lighting fixture at an uppermost portion, a plurality of monitoring screens for recording and viewing physiological function aligned below said light fixture, a mounting terminal plate strip below the screens to receive physiological activity leads from the patient for recording on said monitoring screens, said electronic monitoring package providing total accessibility to personnel when said instrumentation unit is mounted behind a patient''s bed, and a plurality of removable and interchangeable solid state modules positioned adjacent the bottom and in the front of said frame member for operating said monitoring screens in accordance with patient needs, said sides having components including storage spaces, vacuum outlets, gas outlets, and communication links, and means connecting hospital room gas, vacuum and electrical services to selected components and modules of said unit.