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The system for controlling and tracking medical items (830) includes a plurality of medical item storage cabinets (878). Each cabinet includes a plurality of doors (888-894). The doors control access to shelves (902, 904) and support modules (1210). Shelves and support modules include user interface

The system for controlling and tracking medical items (830) includes a plurality of medical item storage cabinets (878). Each cabinet includes a plurality of doors (888-894). The doors control access to shelves (902, 904) and support modules (1210). Shelves and support modules include user interfaces (938, 1214). Authorized users desiring to take medical items from storage locations in cabinets for use in treating patients are enabled to provide inputs through a display terminal (880) adjacent to cabinets and/or interfaces to indicate the taking of medical items. Storage cabinets include visual indicators so that users may be guided to find a selected medical item for which information is input at an associated display terminal. Alternatively, authorized users gain access to the interior of the cabinet and indicate through appropriate inputs through interfaces the types and quantities of items being taken.

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We claim: 1. Apparatus comprising: a medical item holding cabinet including at least one door adapted to open in a forward direction and wherein a locked condition of which one door is electrically controlled to selectively enable access to an interior area of the cabinet; at least one medical item

We claim: 1. Apparatus comprising: a medical item holding cabinet including at least one door adapted to open in a forward direction and wherein a locked condition of which one door is electrically controlled to selectively enable access to an interior area of the cabinet; at least one medical item holder movably mounted in supporting connection with the interior area of the cabinet, wherein when a corresponding at least one door is open, the at least one medical item holder is extendable outside the cabinet in the forward direction; a bracket adapted to be mounted to at least one of a floor surface and a vertically extending wall surface; at least one recess arrangement, wherein each recess arrangement includes at least one recess, wherein each recess extends in the forward direction, wherein each recess includes an entrance opening, wherein each recess is bound by at least one side wall portion, wherein the at least one recess arrangement includes a first recess, wherein the first recess has a predetermined length, at least one interengaging member arrangement, wherein each interengaging member arrangement includes at least one interengaging member, wherein the at least one interengaging member arrangement includes a first interengaging member, wherein the first interengaging member includes at least one transverse portion, wherein the first recess is configured to receive the first interengaging member therein through the entrance opening of the first recess, wherein with the first interengaging member received in the first recess, at least one transverse portion of the first interengaging member extends below a side wall portion bounding the first recess in a direction generally transverse to the forward direction, wherein one of the first interengaging member and the first recess is operatively connected to the cabinet and the other of the first interengaging member and the first recess is operatively connected to the bracket, wherein the first recess is adapted to receive therein the first interengaging member via relative horizontal movement between the cabinet and the bracket, wherein the first interengaging member in the first recess is adapted to move in the forward direction via relative horizontal movement between the cabinet and the bracket, at least one stop member, wherein the at least one stop member includes a first stop member, wherein at least one of the cabinet and bracket includes at least one aperture and the other of the cabinet and bracket includes at least one slot elongated in the forward direction, wherein the at least one aperture includes a first aperture, wherein the first aperture is adapted to receive the first stop member, wherein the at least one slot includes a first slot, wherein the first slot is adapted to receive the first stop member, wherein the first slot comprises a first end and a second end, wherein the first end abuts the first stop portion, wherein the first slot has a predetermined length, wherein the first stop member is relatively movable in the first slot between the first and second ends in the forward direction, wherein the stop portion prevents relative movement of the first stop member in the forward direction beyond the first end, wherein relative horizontal movement of the first stop member in the first slot allows movement of the cabinet relative to the bracket in the forward direction along the first slot, wherein at least one interengaging member is adapted to engage at least one respective bottom of at least one side wall portion to prevent tipping over of the cabinet in the forward direction. 2. The apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the cabinet further comprises a plurality of casters, and wherein the cabinet is movable along the forward direction supported on the plurality of casters with the first interengaging member and first recess in engagement. 3. The apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the cabinet includes the first interengaging member, wherein a lower wall of the cabinet includes the first aperture, wherein the bracket includes the first recess, and wherein the bracket includes the first slot. 4. The apparatus according to claim 2 wherein the first interengaging member comprises in cross section a T-shaped portion including the at least one transverse portion, and the first recess comprises in cross section a T-shaped recess adapted to accept the T-shaped portion. 5. The apparatus according to claim 4 wherein the cabinet comprises a lower wall, and wherein at least one of the T-shaped portion and T-shaped recess are operatively connected to the lower wall. 6. The apparatus according to claim 5 wherein the T-shaped portion is operatively connected with the lower wall of the cabinet, and wherein the bracket includes a pair of transversely spaced rail portions, wherein the rail portions bound the T-shaped recess and the opening. 7. The apparatus according to claim 6 wherein at least one of the rail portions also bounds at least one rail opening, wherein the at least one rail opening comprises the at least one slot, and wherein the lower wall of the cabinet includes the at least one aperture adapted to receive the at least one stop member. 8. The apparatus according to claim 7 wherein the at least one rail opening is elongated along the forward direction, and wherein the at least one stop member is movable within the at least one rail opening, and wherein the rail portion bounds the at least one rail opening such that the engagement of a stop member and a respective rail portion prevents the T-shaped member portion from disengaging the T-shaped recess slot. 9. The apparatus according to claim 8 wherein the bracket further comprises a vertically extending rear flange portion, wherein the rear flange portion includes a plurality of spaced apertures adapted to accept fasteners therein to engage the rear flange portion and a vertically extending wall. 10. The apparatus according to claim 9 wherein the rear flange portion of the bracket includes a plurality of rear frame apertures at a plurality of heights relatively above the rail portions. 11. The apparatus according to claim 10 wherein the bracket further comprises at least one lower flange portion, wherein the at least one lower flange portion extends below the rail portions and includes a plurality of lower flange apertures adapted to receive a plurality of fasteners engaging the bracket and a floor. 12. The apparatus according to claim 11 wherein the bracket includes two lower flange portions, wherein at least one lower flange portion extends transversely outward of the rail portions. 13. The apparatus according to claim 12 wherein the cabinet includes a side wall extending generally parallel of the forward direction, wherein the side wall includes an opening housing a light, and further comprising a further cabinet in adjacent generally side-by-side relation with the cabinet, and wherein the cabinet is movable in the forward direction relative to the further cabinet with the T-shaped member portion and T-shaped recess slot in engagement sufficient to enable access to the light. 14. The apparatus according to claim 12 and further comprising an portable fixture, wherein the T-shaped member portion is engagable with the portable fixture when the cabinet is not engaged with the bracket, wherein the cabinet is prevented from falling in the forward direction when in engagement with the portable fixture. 15. The apparatus according to claim 14 wherein the portable fixture comprises a body including a further T-shaped recess and an enlarged portion, wherein the enlarged portion extends in a forward direction of the further T-shaped recess. 16. The apparatus according to claim 14 wherein the at least one medical item holder comprises a movable shelf and a movable module including a plurality of hooks, wherein each of the module and shelf include a plurality of finger-actuatable buttons thereon, wherein the finger-actuatable buttons are adapted to indicate at least one of taking and placement in of a medical item in a corresponding position of the respective holder. 17. The apparatus according to claim 1 and further comprising a portable fixture, wherein the fixture is adapted to engage the one of the first interengaging member and first recess that is operatively connected to the cabinet, and to prevent the cabinet from falling in a forward direction when the cabinet is not in engagement with the bracket. 18. Apparatus comprising: a medical item holding cabinet, wherein the cabinet includes at least one cabinet door adapted to open in a forward direction to selectively enable access to an interior area of the cabinet, wherein the cabinet includes at least one movably mounted medical item holder, wherein with the at least one door open, the at least one medical item holder is extendable out of the interior area in the forward direction, wherein the cabinet includes at least one pin aperture, at least one T-shaped member connected to the cabinet, a bracket mountable to at least one of a horizontally extending floor surface and a vertically extending wall surface, wherein the bracket includes at least one pair of transversely spaced rail portions, wherein at least one rail portion includes a slot elongated in the forward direction, wherein each pair of rail portions abut a T-shaped recess elongated in the forward direction, wherein each T-shaped recess is configured to respectively receive a T-shaped member through an entrance of the T-shaped recess during relative movement of the cabinet toward the bracket in a direction opposite the forward direction, wherein the cabinet is adapted to be moved horizontally relative to the bracket in the forward direction while a T-shaped member is respectively received in a T-shaped recess, at least one locking pin, wherein each locking pin is configured to be simultaneously inserted in both an aperture of the cabinet and a slot of a rail portion while supported by the cabinet, wherein when a locking pin is inserted in both an aperture and a slot, the locking pin is relatively movable along a length of the slot in a direction generally parallel to the forward direction, wherein an inserted locking pin prevents a T-shaped member received in a T-shaped recess from moving out of the entrance of the T-shaped recess, causing horizontal movement in the forward direction of the cabinet relative to the bracket to be limited, wherein when a T-shaped member is received in a T-shaped recess, at least one rail portion is adapted to engage the T-shaped member to prevent the cabinet from tipping over in the forward direction. 19. Apparatus comprising: a medical item holding cabinet, wherein the cabinet includes at least one cabinet door adapted to open in a forward direction to selectively enable access to an interior area of the cabinet, wherein the cabinet includes at least one medical item holder, wherein the cabinet includes a lower portion, wherein the lower portion supports at least one removable locking pin, wherein the cabinet includes a T-shaped member, a bracket mounted to a retaining surface, wherein the bracket includes at least one slot elongated in a direction generally parallel to the forward direction, wherein a removable locking pin of the lower portion extends in a slot of the bracket, wherein the removable locking pin is relatively slidable in the slot in a direction generally parallel to the forward direction, wherein the bracket includes a T-shaped recess elongated in a direction generally parallel to the forward direction, wherein the T-shaped member is received in the T-shaped recess, wherein the T-shaped member is prevented from being vertically removed from the T-shaped recess, preventing the cabinet from tipping over in the forward direction, wherein the T-shaped member is relatively slidable in the T-shaped recess in a direction generally parallel to the forward direction, enabling the cabinet to be moved horizontally relative to the bracket in a direction generally parallel to the forward direction, wherein the removable locking pin prevents horizontal removal of the T-shaped member from the T-shaped recess in the forward direction, wherein removal of the locking pin allows horizontal removal of the T-shaped member from the T-shaped recess in the forward direction. 20. The apparatus according to claim 19 wherein the bracket is secured to the retaining surface, wherein the bracket is prevented from moving, wherein the cabinet is locked to the bracket, and wherein the cabinet is movable in a direction generally parallel to the forward direction while locked to the bracket.