The invention relates to a mobilization handrail controlled by a patient without help of hospital staff and to a bed equipped with this mobilization handrail that is hidden under the loading surface of the bed when it is in non-functional position.
Majority of standard beds known up to the present that are designated for hospital facilities, for social and senior care or possibly for home patient-care, are not equipped with mobilization handrails. When beds are equipped with handrails, the arrangement has substantial imperfection in the fact that a patient alone cannot control the handrail. It means that such a handrail does not carry out the function expected from it, i.e. to exclude assistance of hospital staff. Handrail designed in this way does not serve for mobilization of a patient by enabling him to get up and stand on his feet by himself, without any assistance of hospital staff, when leaving the bed.
The above outlined disadvantages are eliminated by mobilization handrail according to the invention. The mobilization handrail is controlled by the patient self, without any assistance of hospital personnel. Mobilization handrail comprises of an elongated profile. The core of the invention is based on the elongated profile placed in a guide that allows the elongated profile to slide in and slide out of the space under the loading surface of the bed. When the elongated profile is in slide-out position from the space underneath the loading surface of the bed, it is turned and set into nearly a vertical position. It is then fixed in this position by a lock.
It is advantageous, when the elongated profile is fitted with a handle that is substantially perpendicular to its longitudinal axis. It serves as a support for a getting-up patient.
Mobilization handrail is constructed advantageously with servo-drive control for adjusting of the bed loading surface height, situated on the handle in position of the patient's thumb when he is grasping the handle.
Another useful version of mobilization handrail has the guide attached to the bottom part of the loading surface of the bed.
The mobilization handrail can have its guide formed simply by a casing with cross-section that nearly corresponds to cross-section of the elongated profile.
The mobilization handrail is advantageously equipped with a simple lock for the elongated profile in its vertical position. The lock consists of space that can be a part of the casing, into which the bottom part of the elongated profile is locked when the profile is set up in vertical position.
One of mobilization handrail variants is characterized by its elongated profile furnished with a fixture for a board, advantageously for dining board using bed head for the purpose.
Subject of the submitted invention is also a bed, primarily a hospital bed that is equipped with mobilization handrail at least on one of its sides.
It is more advantageous, if the bed is equipped with a pair of mobilization handrails at least on one side.
Invention is more closely described on the drawings, where
a presents the detail of mobilization handrail in slide-in position in the guide under the loading surface of the bed,
The bed 1 with a flat loading surface of the bed and with mobilization handrails 1 and 2, which are positioned and locked approximately in the vertical position, is illustrated in an axonometric view in the
In the course of activation of mobilization handrails 1 and 2, when the frame of the loading surface of the bed 3 is for example, at the lowest position and the back part is lifted to the upper position, which is a suitable position for leaving the bed 3, a patient first manipulates the mobilization handrail 1 and 2. After the patient sits up and lowers the legs from the bed 3, he/she then lifts the mobilization handrails 1 and 2 located conveniently under bed 3, under the part on which the patient's thighs rest. When getting up, the patient can lean against holders 6 located at the upper end of the mobilization handrails 1 and 2. At the end of holders 6, opposite thumbs of a patient, there are located drivers 7 by which a patient can control servo-drives and set the loading surface of the bed 3 to a height allowing the patient to get up comfortably, as the
The mobilization handrails 1 and 2 can be located on both sides 12 of the bed 3, from both sides of the firm part of the loading surface, and from both sides of femoral part of the loading surface, altogether two pairs, as the
However, the mobilization handrails 1 and 2 can fulfill yet another function, for which it is necessary to fix all four handrails 1 and 2. They enable to install a dining board 11 right on the bed 3 by inserting the dining board 11, formed by a head of the bed 3, into two opposite mobilization handrails 1 and 2 at the firm part of the loading surface of the bed. In that way the dining board 11 is created right next to a patient by using components, which are standard parts of the bed 3. The
The submitted invention represents a non-traditional realization of the mobilization handrail, which is designated for hospital facilities, in future even for social and senior care. The main utilization in hospital segment is supposed in standard bed wards. Applicability of these handrails in other sectors is assumed on beds that are used in private sanatoriums and clinics, in retirement homes, social care homes, and other institutions for social and senior care, or for home care for a patient. The mobilization handrail 1 and 2 according to the submitted invention allows safe and comfortable getting-up from bed, sitting down again and lying down, and so it increases self-sufficiency of a patient.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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PUV 2004-16035 | Nov 2004 | CZ | national |
Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind | 371c Date |
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PCT/CZ2005/000085 | 11/14/2005 | WO | 00 | 6/19/2007 |