Hospital bed with pivoting headboard

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS Referring particularly to FIG.
1, a hospital room 10 has a ceiling 11, a floor 12, and the usual walls, not shown.
A rectangular bed site 15 is shown in phantom lines on the floor 12.
The bed site has a head end 16 and a foot end 17.
The position of the head end and foot end, of course, can be reversed.
A power column 20 is mounted to its upper end on a swinging arm 21 and at its lower end to a swinging arm 22.
The arms 21 and 22 are pivoted on an axis 23 which passes through the head end.
16 of the bed site 15.
The arm 21 is pivoted to the ceiling 11 and the arm 22 is pivoted to the floor 12.
At the ceiling, electrical and gas conduit 25 pass from the ceiling through the arm 21 to the power column 20.
Those conduit 25 are terminated at electrical, gas and vacuum outlets 26 as are conventional in power columns and headwalls.
A monitor 30 is mounted in the upper portion of the power column 20, the monitor providing real time, continuous wave forms depicting the patient's heart condition, blood pressure, etc.
It is contemplated that the power column have the capability of swinging through an arc of approximately 120.
degree.
and be infinitely positionable at any point along the arc.
The arc extends from one side of the bed through the end of the bed to the other side of the bed.
At the opposite end of the bed, a computer terminal 35 is suspended by a bracket 36 from an arm 37.
The arm has an end 38 that is pivoted to the ceiling 11 about an axis 39 passing through the foot end of the bed.
The mounting for the arm preferably has a counterweight or counterspring which permits the arm to be easily raised to the phantom line position 40 in FIG.
1 or lowered to the full line position as shown.
The computer terminal preferably has a handle 42 to assist the attending in moving the terminal up and down as well as in a horizontal arcuate direction, The pivot connection for the arm 37 permits the terminal to be swung through an arc of at least 180.
degree.
so as to bring the terminal to an infinite number of positions through an arc passing from one side of the bed through the foot end of the bed to the other side of the bed