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US 10,117,800 B1Granted
Methods of using a body sling and patient handling sheets by a single caregiver
AssigneeNurses Care, LLC
InventorMyriam Galbraith
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Abstract
A body sling with patient handling sheets allowing a single caregiver to provide perineal care and skin integrity assessment to a bedridden patient, and further providing the capability to lift, turn, and reposition the patient with the use and aid of a patient lift.
Claims20
A method for allowing a single caregiver to provide perineal care and skin integrity assessment to a bedridden patient, the method comprising:
- a) laying a bottom sheet flat and symmetrically across a mattress;
- b) extending a plurality of bottom sheet lift straps away and down from the mattress;
- c) laying a top sheet flat and symmetrically across the bottom sheet;
- d) aligning a plurality of top sheet lift straps to be interspersed between the plurality of bottom sheet lift straps;
- e) aligning fastening strips between the bottom sheet and the top sheet;
- f) positioning the bedridden patient on top of the top sheet;
- g) securing the bottom sheet lift straps and a plurality of complimentary bottom sheet lift loops on one side of the mattress to a patient lift;
- h) securing the top sheet lift straps and a plurality of complimentary top sheet lift loops located on the one side of the mattress of step g) to the patient lift;
- i) detaching the fastening strips from one another to expose a cut-out in the top sheet;
- and,
- j) gaining access to a perineal area of the bedridden patient.
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A method to be used in combination with a patient lift, comprising:
- a) laying a bottom sheet flat and symmetrically across a mattress;
- b) extending a plurality of bottom sheet lift straps away and down from the mattress;
- c) laying a top sheet flat and symmetrically across the bottom sheet;
- d) aligning a plurality of top sheet lift straps to be interspersed between the plurality of bottom sheet lift straps, wherein each bottom sheet lift strap is aligned to be between two adjacent top sheet lift straps;
- e) aligning fastening strips between the bottom sheet and the top sheet;
- f) positioning a bedridden patient on top of the top sheet;
- g) securing the bottom sheet lift straps and a plurality of complimentary bottom sheet lift loops on one side of the mattress to the patient lift;
- h) securing the top sheet lift straps and a plurality of complimentary top sheet lift loops located on the one side of the mattress of step g) to the patient lift;
- i) detaching the fastening strips from one another to expose a cut-out in the top sheet;
- and,
- j) gaining access to a perineal area of the bedridden patient.
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A method for providing care to a bedridden patient using a bottom sheet and a top sheet in combination with a patient lift, comprising:
- interspersing a bottom sheet first lift strap of the bottom sheet between two adjacent top sheet first lift straps of the top sheet on a first longitudinal side of a mattress, wherein each bottom sheet first lift strap is aligned to be between two adjacent top sheet first lift straps;
- securing one or more bottom sheet first lift loops of the bottom sheet first lift straps on the first longitudinal side of the mattress to the patient lift;
- securing one or more top sheet first lift loops of the top sheet first lift straps on the first longitudinal side of the mattress to the patient lift;
- turning the bedridden patient to a lateral recumbent position;
- and,
- exposing a cut-out in the top sheet.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.