Movable hospital room equipment column

Claim 1

A movable medical equipment support column providing internally mounted gas rails and electrical raceways connected to service supply sources through ceiling mounted conduits, the support column comprising; two pair of oppositely positioned vertically extending front and rear frame members, a cap supported by a top portion of the frame members, a base supporting a bottom portion of the frame members, multiple wheel means for providing contact between the support column base and a floor surface, the wheel means mounted in the base, multiple horizontally extending cross members interconnecting the front two frames members and the rear two frame members, a pipe connecting a first arm of a double articulating arm containing gas hoses and electrical conduits interconnecting the ceiling mounted conduits to gas rails and electrical raceways in the cap, a second arm of the double articulating arm mounted to a ceiling, bumper handles covering a portion of each front frame member containing a switch for electrically releasing a brake mounted in the base, an equipment support frame pivotally attached to at least one front frame member, at least one gas flow meter mounted on a cross member, the front and rear frame members containing raceways interconnected to raceways in the cap receiving electrical conduits and gas lines from the double articulating arm, a patient monitor pivotally attached by a support arm to a shaft connecting the first arm of the double articulating arm to a top portion of the frame members, the support column providing open space for communication between persons on opposite sides of the column to allow visual contact with a patient when on opposite sides, and the support column movable in a range of up to 340° around a center of rotation to provide patient services at any position for multiple care providers rendering patient assistance.