Considerable force and tiring work by about five orderlies/nurses is required to turn surgery patients, who are often anaesthetised or have reduced mobility. The turning also requires disconnecting measuring and monitoring equipment connected to the patient, which takes much time. An aid for turning persons lying on a bed, particularly an operating table, solves the above problems. The aid includes a rotatable roller oriented in parallel with and capable of being suspended at a long side of a bed, where the rotational axis of the roller is capable of being elevated above the resting surface of the bed as the ends of the roller are suspended at free ends of upright brackets releasably attached at the long side of the bed. hereby, one orderly/nurse is made redundant, and furthermore it will not be necessary during the turning to disconnect and reconnect possible apparatuses connected to the patient.
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