ARRANGEMENT OF MEDICAL TREATMENT UNITS AND PERIPHERAL APPLIANCES

摘要

The invention relates to an arrangement of a plurality of medical treatment units (1, 1') which are to be respectively associated with a patient, and a plurality of peripheral appliances (5, 5') also to be respectively associated with a patient. The peripheral appliances comprise means (7, 8) for transmitting control signals and patient signals to the treatment units (1, 1') while the treatment units (1, 1') comprise means (12, 13) for receiving the control signals and patient signals from the peripheral appliances (5). The peripheral appliances can be randomly associated with the treatment units, ensuring that the treatment units do not receive patient signals from peripheral appliances other than the patient signals of the peripheral appliance associated with the respective treatment unit. To this end, the operating staff allocate a peripheral appliance to a patient and confirm the successful association of the peripheral appliance with the treatment unit allocated to the patient.