Inventors:
Jay Ronald Rowes - Wareham MA, US
Malcolm C. Winsor - Mount Vernon NH, US
David A. Zlotek - Nashua NH, US
International Classification:
A47B 7/00, A61G 5/00
US Classification:
5612, 5607, 5609, 5 881, 5 811 R
Abstract:
A system and procedure for preventing and enhancing healing of Decubiti ulcers on patients, comprising the steps of placing the patient on a web adapted to support the patient, the web having a patient contacting portion and a non-patient contacting portion, the web having an opening through the web, positioned so that the opening surrounds the ulcer and prevents contact of the web with the ulcer, and using a web support system adapted to support the web by attachment only to the non-patient contacting portion, to solely support the web with a patient on it. The procedure may also include a step wherein a rocking device is used that acts through the web support system to selectively tilt the web and thereby to tilt the patient on the patient contact portion of the web, so that the pressure between the patient and the web is cyclically altered.