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Patient Safeguard System – Bed Beacon User’s Guide UltraClenz, LLC
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3.0 Patient Bed Beacon
The bed beacon, via its detachable patient bed antenna, creates an invisible boundary around the patient’s bed.
This boundary defines the patient’s “space” and is called the patient zone. When a HCW crosses this boundary
and enters the patient zone, the HCW is now considered to be in contact with the patient. The HCW’s badge will
then communicate with the bed beacon. The bed beacon will then reply and the badge will immediately change
its hand hygiene state. For example, if the HCW’s badge is in the sanitary state (green flashing LED) it will then
change to a cautionary state (yellow flashing LED ) to indicate that a compliant patient contact event has
occurred. A thorough explanation of badge states and state changes is provided later in this document.
The bed beacon provides both audio and visual alerts to indicate that it has successfully communicated with a
HCW’s badge. Upon successful communication, the status LED will flash green one time followed by a two tone
chime (see Figure 5).