Patient adjustment device
OwnerEvelyn M. Friel, John D. Frielinventors
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Abstract
A patient lifting device designed to impart a vertical and corresponding horizontal force component upon a load, namely an ill or incapacitated person in a bed. This vertical and horizontal force results in an incapacitated bed ridden patient being physically adjusted substantially horizontally in a hospital bed, for instance being pulled towards the top of the bed after having migrated towards the bottom of the bed as is quite common. The device utilizes a lifting assembly, a base supporting said lifting assembly, a vertically adjustable shaft, a horizontal load bearing boom-like member for attaching said horizontal load bearing member and a generally flat flexible sheet upon which the patient is supported.
Claims16
A patient lifting device comprising;
- a base support assembly;
- a lift mechanism mounted on the base support assembly having a vertically adjustable shaft;
- a control and adjustment device for vertical adjustment of the vertically adjustable shaft;
- at least an attachment point positioned on a first end of the vertically adjustable shaft, and at least one connector extending between the attachment point and a load carrier for supporting a patient;
- a first position wherein the vertically adjustable shaft is in a vertically lower position and the load carrier is placed directly under the patient and horizontally spaced from the lift mechanism in an initial horizontal position;
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- a second position wherein the extendable shaft is raised to a vertically higher position and the load carrier is pulled substantially horizontally closer to the lift mechanism into a second horizontal position.
A patient relocation device for moving a patient from a position spaced from the head of a bed to a position closer to the head of the bed, the relocation device comprising:
- a lifting mechanism having a vertically separated first position and second position, and a hydraulic control device operable by a caregiver for controlling movement of the lifting mechanism between the first and second position;
- a load-bearing support attached to said lifting mechanism, the load bearing support having a plurality of substantially horizontally aligned attachment points;
- a tensionable connector extending from at least one of the plurality of attachment points and attached to a generally flat, patient supporting carrying member.
A method for realigning a patient from a position spaced from the head of a bed to a position closer to the head of the bed, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing a lifting mechanism having a vertically separated first position and second position, and a hydraulic control device operable by a caregiver for controlling movement of the lifting mechanism between the first and second position;
- attaching a load-bearing support to said lifting mechanism, the load bearing support having a plurality of substantially horizontally aligned attachment points;
- extending a tensionable connector from at least one of the plurality of attachment points and attached to a generally flat, patient supporting carrying member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.