Patient comfort apparatus and system
Assignee3M Innovative Properties Company
InventorsScott D. Augustine, Thomas P. Anderson, Randall C. Arnold
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Abstract
An apparatus, a system, and a method for thermally comforting a patient include pneumatic, convective device providing thermal treatment for persons or animals, which is adapted for use in combination with a clinical garment such as a hospital gown, robe, bib, and other equivalents. The pneumatic convective device provides convective warming focused or directed primarily on the thorax or body core. The pneumatic convective device includes at least one inlet for being accessed through a clinical garment, a region in distribution with the inlet for distributing a stream of pressurized, thermally treated air, and a permeable member for emitting pressurized, thermally treated air from the distribution region.
Claims17
A clinical garment, comprising:
- a hospital gown including a body portion adapted to cover a portion of a patient, an inner surface for facing the patient, and an outer surface for facing away from the patient, wherein the body portion includes sleeves sized and positioned for receiving a patient's arms,
- to form a pneumatic convective device therewith;
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- at least one opening formed in the hospital gown for admitting a stream of pressurized, warmed air into the pneumatic convective device.
A system comprising:
- a clinical garment, comprising:
- a hospital gown including a body portion adapted to cover a portion of a patient, an inner surface for facing the patient, and an outer surface for facing away from the patient, wherein the body portion includes sleeves sized and positioned for receiving a patient's arms,
- a single, air permeable sheet of material having a periphery and forming a seal with less than all of the inner surface of the hospital gown to form a pneumatic convective device therewith, and
- at least one opening formed in the hospital gown for admitting a stream of pressurized, heated air into the pneumatic convective device,
- a warming unit that can provide a stream of pressurized, heated air to the clinical garment, comprising:
- heater control circuitry;
- power conversion apparatus for converting AC power for use by the heater control circuitry;
- an air hose connected to the warming unit having a hose-end releasably attached to the clinical garment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.