Beds – With means for relocating an invalid – With a hoisting – lifting – elevating – or raising device
Patent
1993-06-14
1995-03-14
Trettel, Michael F.
Beds
With means for relocating an invalid
With a hoisting, lifting, elevating, or raising device
5 861, 5 891, A61G 710
Patent
active
053966694
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF INVENTION
The present invention relates to a system for transferring and nursing a patient, in particular a mobility-impaired patient. The system minimizes the space and the amount of physical labor required for nursing the patient.
PRIOR ART
Working conditions are often problematic when nursing mobility-impaired patients. Lifting the patient is ergonomically difficult for the nurses. Today, there are many kinds of auxiliary equipment available in hospitals for transfer and lifting of patients. Beds which are adjustable in height are generally considered to be the most important of these auxiliary equipment. Also transfer chairs, different lifting devices, for example lifting and transfer devices on legs, bath room lifts, hoists in the cealing, etc. are commonly used. Further, shower chairs, sliding platforms and bath platforms are used for transferring and bathing patients. However, these accesories are single devices designed for a specific use. It may be impractical to use such accessories as they require substantial space and they are not always available at the right time in the right place. In a hurry, the nurses tend to use their own physical force rather than look for auxiliary equipment.
Finnish patent applications no. 892374 and 895127 and WO publication no. WO 91/05532 disclose-hospital beds with a transfer couch and equipment for transfer of a patient. An advantage provided by these systems is that they are integrated parts of the bed and are thus always available. There is no need to fetch many separate auxiliary devices beside the bed when a patient is to be lifted and transferred.
However, a uniform centralized system for nursing a patient has never been suggested whereby a patient can be transferred and nursed starting from the hospital door in such a way that nurses need not lift the patient much which remarkably reduces the physical strain of the nursing work.
DISCLOSURE OF INVENTION
The object of the present invention is to provide a uniform system for facilitation of the transfer and nursing of a patient by which the patient can be transferred and nursed without many separate auxiliary devices and great physical strain.
The transfer and nursing system of the invention comprises a lifting frame serving as a patient transfer couch and connectable to a bearing means and providable with a lifting sheet, with a corresponding underlay element needed for the treatment, and with auxiliary nursing devices. A characteristic feature of the invention is that at least one pair of the opposite sides of the lifting frame is made of profile bars and the lifting sheet or the like couch and/or the auxiliary nursing device is detachably secured by suitable means in grooves provided in the profiles of the bars in such a way that several sheets or couches and/or auxiliary nursing devices may be secured in the frame at the same time.
The bearing means is preferably an integrated part of the hospital bed or the like bed as disclosed for example in WO91/05532.
Lifting frames formed by bars disconnectable from each other are known. Here, the sides of the lifting sheets are provided with tubular portions into which the bars of the lifting frame are slipped; after this the bars of the frame are connected to each other. This method of securing the lifting sheet is, however, very cumbersome and takes time since the lifting frame must be disassembled for a change of the lifting sheet or the like underlay element.
According to the system of the present invention, the lifting sheet can be secured without disassembling the structure of the frame, and further, several different sheets and auxiliary nursing devices, according to what is needed, can be secured to the frame at the same time.
Other features of the invention are defined in the claims which are incorporated herein by reference.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS The invention is described closer below, by
way of example, with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the end part of a profile bar of a lifti
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A. Ahlstrom Corporation
Trettel Michael F.
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