Surgery – Body protecting or restraining devices for patients or infants – Restrainers and immobilizers
Patent
1997-01-13
1998-02-03
Brown, Michael A.
Surgery
Body protecting or restraining devices for patients or infants
Restrainers and immobilizers
128873, 2 2, A61B 1900
Patent
active
057133735
ABSTRACT:
A restraint garment has a front body portion, permanently connected to a rear body portion, both extending from the neck of the patient down to the mid-height of the patient's thighs. The rear body portion has two detachable pieces connected to each other by a zip fastener. The garment also has first and second rear shoulder portions extending from the shoulder edges of the front body portion down to the bottom of the shoulder blades in the back of the patient, which are detachably connected to each other by another zip fastener. The bottom parts of the front and rear portions are detachably connected to each other by a third zip fastener extending continuously form one thigh to the other, thereby making it possible to completely open the garment at the patient's fork. Each of the zip fasteners are preferably locked either with a key-operated lock or with a buckle made of a snap fastener and a sliding sleeve. This restraint garment makes it difficult not to say impossible for a patient to undress. It is very difficult to remove and prevent the patient from having access to the covered part of his or her body. Moreover, this garment is easy to fit on a patient and gives easy access for the nursing staff to the diaper that the patient may wear and permits the patient to be secured to his or her bed or chair.
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