Automatic patient turner

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2006-07-25

2006-07-25

Grosz, Alexander (Department: 3673)

Beds

Mattress

Having confined gas

C005S615000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07080422

ABSTRACT:
The Automatic Patient Turner is the ultimate in pressure sore prevention by automatically, periodically, and alternately tilting, and then laterally turning an immobile patient from one complete side to the other in a manner similar to, yet gentler and less intrusive than, manual turning, due to the patterned, sequential inflation and deflation of strategically placed inflatables. When the bent knees are perpendicular, being sandwiched between a pair of knee inflatables, they serve as a lever arm in the turning process when pressure is exerted against them by inflated inflatables. This causes the bent knees to move well beyond their perpendicular position in the direction of the turn. With the deflation of the knee inflatables, the bent knees descend laterally pulling the entire body of the patient completely to one side as a back-support pillow inflates, where the patient will lie upon a flat mattress until turned to the other side.

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