Patient positioning and transfer sheet

A patient transfer sheet, comprising:

• a core panel having top and bottom surfaces with opposite end edges and opposite side edges, a length defined between said opposite end edges and a width defined between said opposite side edges, said length and width of said core panel sized to receive at least the torso and upper legs of a patient lying thereon;
• a side strip extending along each of said opposite side edges of said core panel, each side strip including a plurality of layers overlapping said top and bottom surfaces of a side portion of said core panel, wherein all of said plurality of layers are affixed together and to said core panel;
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• a plurality of handles, each defined by aligned openings cut through each of said plurality of layers and said side portion of said core panel, wherein said plurality of layers are not affixed together or to said core panel at said aligned openings.

A patient transfer sheet, comprising:

• a core panel in the form of a single sheet having top and bottom surfaces with opposite end edges and opposite side edges, a length defined between said opposite end edges and a width defined between said opposite side edges, said length and width of said core panel sized to receive at least the torso and upper legs of a patient lying thereon;
• and
• a separate side strip affixed along each of said opposite side edges of said core panel, each side strip defining a plurality of handles along the length thereof, each handle defined by an opening formed in said side strip,
• wherein said single sheet of said core panel includes a repeating pattern of elongated indentations in said sheet spaced apart along a length of said pattern, each indentation defining a long axis along a length thereof and a transverse axis along a transverse width thereof that is shorter than said indentation length, said repeating pattern including two parallel rows in which said elongated indentations alternate with the long axis and the transverse axis aligned along the length of the row, the two rows offset relative to each other along the length of said pattern so that a long axis of an indentation in one row is aligned to intersect the short axis of an indentation in the other row.