Robert M Watts

US Patent:

62103296, Apr 3, 2001

Filed:

Aug 9, 1999

Appl. No.:

9/370720

Inventors:

Robert Caldwell Christmas - Marietta GA
Robert Watts - Malvern PA

Assignee:

Docsystems, Inc. - Malvern PA

International Classification:

A61B 800
A61B 812

US Classification:

600437

Abstract:

An apparatus for organizing, transporting, and using medical devices and supplies during obstetrical evaluations, comprising a portable housing with an alarm system for contents thereof, a base housing capable of being structurally and electrically coupled to by the portable housing and optional housings, and a fixture mounting bracket for attaching the base housing to an examination table. The portable housing and base housing preferably have compartments for medical devices and supplies. The portable housing has a medical device compartment for accepting a Doppler receiving insert for storing a conventional Doppler device with a probe connected to a base, for accepting a customized Doppler base unit of an integral Doppler device with a probe connected to the base, or for accepting a scanhead receiving insert for storing a sonogram device with a scanhead connected to a console. The portable housing preferably also has a gel bottle compartment with a gel bottle heater for maintaing the temperature of a gel bottle stored therein. The alarm system preferably has at least one trigger device in the medical device compartment.