NURSING CARE EQUIPMENT FOR HALF-BODY BATHING

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a nursing care equipment for half-body bathing allowing a part around excretion to be safely cleaned up at ease in an easy posture of a patient whose upper half body is placed on a backrest in the raised state of a bed.;SOLUTION: A bathtub sheet 6 is laid under the body in a sheet changing manner in the condition of the patient lying face up on the bed, and a bed backrest 8 on which the upper half body of the patient is placed is put in the raised state. A bathtub plate 10 constituted of side plates 1 formed with three U-shaped faces and opened at one face with both side plates 1 of an opening 9 being located in laterally symmetrical positions and provided with gradients 2 at the tips thereof, is arranged under the bathtub sheet 6 from the foot soles of the patient to the circumference reaching both sides so that the tips 2 of both side plates at the opening 9 come in close contact with the bed backrest 8. The bathtub sheet 6 laid under the patient's body is raised to the upper part while contacting the inner surface of the bathtub plate, and then folded to the outside and hung in contact with the outer surface to obtain a surrounded bathtub function to thereby permit half-body bathing.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT