Self-contained transportable life support system

US5975081A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION · US

Inventors

• David Darby Hood · Signal Hill, US
• David Sherrill · Burbank, US
• Todd Douglas Kneale · La Habra, US
• Louis Stephen Toth · La Palma, US
• David Michael Stanley · Anaheim, US
• Gene Bruce Moore · Orange, US
• Mark Lane Berry · Chino Hills, US
• Robert Michael Garcia · Laguna Hills, US
• William Richard Sobko · Torrance, US
• Donald Hanks · Calabasas, US
• Douglas Ellwood Shultz · Brea, US
• John Roger Brayton · Gardena, US
• Walter Dennis Clark · Fullerton, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 21, 1996
• Grant date: Nov 2, 1999
• Expiry date: Jun 21, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61M2202/03
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A self-contained transportable life support system for resuscitation, stabilization, and transport of a patient has an environmentally controlled housing for receiving and supporting a patient and a plurality of medical devices disposed within the housing. A control circuit attached to the housing has at least a portion thereof extending to an external surface of the housing for regulating operation of the medical devices and environmental conditions of within the housing in response to monitored life support conditions of the patient.