ES1057997U - Protective mitt for patients - Google Patents

Abstract

Patient protection mitt, of the type that covers the user's entire hand and wrist, prevents the patient from manipulating the cannulas, probes and the like applied to the body; characterized in that it comprises two independent mittens, an outer one (2) and an inner one (3) that are joined together only at the edges of the mouthpiece (E) in the area of the wrist (MU) that directly receives the hand (MA) and wrist (MU) of the user, whose inner mitt (3) is smaller than the outer mitt (2) with the bottom (f) separated (d) from the bottom (F) from the outer (2), and is movable inside the outer (2), and whose outer mitt (2) is provided with fastening means (4, 5) on at least the user's wrist (MU), and eventually the bed. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

Protective mitten for patients.

Object of the invention

The present invention aims at a protective glove for patients that prevents the removal of the probes, cannulas and the like, which are placed in the body to different applications, also to avoid in many cases that the patient is harmed with the railings of the bed.

Field of the Invention

In the hospital world, and especially in certain sectors of it turns out that in many cases the patients who are intubated or provided with cannulas and the like, to receive various dosages for different purposes, they have many discomforts, united in many a disorientation temporary or permanent and with stirring tables, they have in many cases tendency to detach from the aforementioned devices, which if they succeed, they create many problems for the patient and staff of nursing you have to put back in the patient.

Background of the invention

To avoid as much as possible, they had introduced the hands of the patients in mittens or the like with essentially soft sheets, to try to prevent free movement of the fingers, so that they could not Remove items placed on the body.

In addition, restless patients are required "bind them" to bed especially at some times when the nursing staff has to act with them, so that they can perform their functions, since otherwise it turns out impossible, or to prevent the patient from hitting the bed railings.

The means used so far by way of bags or similar, are not suitable for the purpose cited, since that adapt easily to the patient's hand and due to the low resistance of the materials used, the patient bites them and manages to break them, releasing the hand from the mitt and in many cases ingesting pieces of mitten, also destroying sheets, cushions, diapers, collectors.

All this constitutes a series of inconveniences for the patient himself because it has to be reapplied, what the patient has removed, in addition to causing damage, haemorrhages, etc., for healthcare personnel who have to return to apply them, also to the hospital that treats it, and that these incidents cause a large economic expense Proportions for the center.

Summary of the invention

The aforementioned drawbacks have been totally removed by the protective mitt for subject patients of the present invention due to the characteristics of this mitten, which allows the movement of the fingers inside without this movement being transmitted to the outside of the mitt, presents a tough constitution and structure, which does not break although the patient bites her and with some level closure measures of the wrist that prevent the patient from taking it out.

According to the above, the mitt for Patients object of the present invention is characterized essentially because it comprises two independent mittens, one exterior and interior that are linked together only in the edges of the mouth in the area of the wrist you receive directly the user's hand and wrist, whose inner mitten is movable with respect to the outside, it is smaller than the outer mitten with the bottom separated from the bottom of the Exterior.

The outer mitt comprises two mittens faced in correspondence with the two faces of the hand and that they are joined together by the respective edges throughout the outline except at the mouth, and each of the mittens facing inside incorporates a flattened piece essentially semi-rigid configuration in correspondence with the whole hand and is held in position by the seam of union of the pair of facing mittens that form the mitt outside and narrow towards the wrist.

These features described above they make the patient with this mitt move his hand inside of the inner mitt and that movement is not transmitted to the Exterior.

The outer mitt is provided with two means clamps that close the mitt on the user's wrist, another alternative that allows us this mitt would be to use one of the fastening means for closing the mitt to the wrist of the patient and the other to make an external fixation in the bed. The means for holding the mitten on the patient's wrist They consist of respective adhesive strips, velcro type.

The mouthpiece comprises the entrance mouth of the hand and a longitudinal lateral aeration opening.

The outer mitt is made up of High strength textile and / or plastic material.

The inner mitt is made up of sweat-absorbent textile material and soft touch.

The semi-rigid material of the flattened pieces of the opposing mittens that make up the outer mitt They consist of nice touch plastic material.

These and other features will come off better than the detailed description that follows, to facilitate which It is accompanied by a sheet of drawings in which it has been represented a case study that is cited only by way of non-limiting example of the scope of the present invention.

Description of the drawings

In these drawings:

Figure 1 is a light plan view perspective of the mitten for patients undergoing invention.

Figure 2 is a plan view and partially fragmented of the mitt of the invention, placed in position inverted to figure 1.

Figure 3 is a longitudinal sectional view. of the mitt considered by plane III-III of Figure 4

Figure 4 is a plan view of the mitten of the invention illustrating the user's hand and wrist introduced therein in the position illustrated in Figure 1, and which presents the fragmented closing and clamping means.

Figure 5 is a plan view similar to the Figure 1 illustrating the inner mitt completely removed from the mitten of the invention.

Figure 6 is a fragmented sectional view. considered by plane VI-VI of figure 4.

Detailed description of a preferred embodiment of the invention

In accordance with the drawings, the mitt for patients object of the present invention, with the reference general (1) comprises two independent mittens, one outer (2) and an interior (3) that are joined together only in the edges of the mouth (E) in the area of the wrist that receives directly the hand (MA) and wrist (MU) of the user, whose mitten interior (3) has a smaller size (see figures 3, 4 and 5) than the outer mitten (2), the bottom (f) of the inner mitt being (3) separated from the bottom (F) of the outer mitt (2), according to a distance or separation (d) (see figures 2, 3 and 4). That provision and structure allows the patient to stretch and shrink the hand (MA) moving the inner mitt (3) inside the mitt exterior (2).

The mitt (1) of the invention has a structure in which the outer mitt (2) comprises two mittens facing each other (2a) and (2b) (see especially figures 3 and 6), in correspondence with the two sides of the user's hand (MA), and that are joined together by the respective edges by the corresponding seam (CO) along the entire contour except at the mouth (E). Also, each of the mittens facing each other (2a), (2b) incorporates a flattened piece inside (6), (6) essentially semi-rigid configuration in correspondence with the whole hand (MA) and is maintained in position by the mentioned seam of union (CO) of the pair of mittens facing each other (2a), (2b) that form the outer mitt (2) of the mitten (1) of the invention and which narrow towards the wrist. These flattened parts (6), (6) prevent the outer mitt (2) bend with the movement that the patient performs with the hand inside the inner mitten (3).

Also, the mitt (1) is provided in the area of the wrist (MU) of the user, of two adhesive strips Velcro type (4), (5) to attach both the mitt to the patient's wrist, or well one of them (4) to close the mitten to the wrist of the patient and the other (5) to bed or other fixed point, fit Occasionally, so that health workers can work with the patient or to prevent hand strokes against railings

As seen in the drawings, the mouth (E) comprises the mouth (E1) of the hand entrance and a lateral opening longitudinal (E2) aeration.

The mitt (1) of the invention may be made of any resistant material, but preferably the outer mitt (2) is made of textile material, and where appropriate, of plastic material, being in any case of great resistance, that although the user bites her, she cannot to break. For its part, the inner mitten (3) is constituted of preference based on textile material that is sweat absorbent and It has a soft touch.

Finally, the semi-rigid material of the facing mittens on each side (2a), (2b) of the outer mitt (2) consist of respective plates of plastic material, touch Nice preferably polyethylene.

Preferably, the textile material of the outer and inner mittens is made of cotton and polyester.

Of course, the mitt of the invention is presents in different sizes to fulfill its function, in correspondence with the size of the user's hand.

The invention, within its essentiality, can be put into practice in other embodiments that differ only in detail from that indicated solely by way of example, which will also achieve the protection that collect. Therefore, this mitt may be performed for patients with most suitable media, components and accessories, being able to component elements be replaced by others technically equivalent, because all of this is included within the claims.

Claims (7)

1. Patient protection mitt, of the type that covers the user's entire hand and wrist, prevents the patient from manipulating the cannulas, probes and the like applied to the body; characterized in that it comprises two independent mittens, one outer (2) and one inner (3) that are joined together only at the edges of the mouth (E) in the area of the wrist (MU) that receives the hand directly (MA) and wrist (MU) of the user, whose inner mitt (3) is smaller than the outer mitt (2) with the bottom (f) separated (d) from the bottom (F) of the outer (2), and is movable inside the outside (2), and whose outer mitten (2) is provided with fastening means (4, 5) on at least the wrist (MU) of the user, and eventually to the bed. 2. Mitten according to claim 1, characterized in that the outer mitt (2) comprises two opposing mittens (2a, 2b) in correspondence with the two faces of the hand (MA) and which are joined together by the respective edges of the along the entire contour except at the mouth (E), and each of the facing mittens (2a, 2b) incorporates in its interior a flattened part (6) essentially semi-rigid configuration in correspondence with that of the whole hand (MA) and is held in position by the seam (CO) of union of the pair of facing mittens (2a, 2b) that form the outer mitten (2) and the narrowing towards the wrist of the mittens (2 and 3), these flattened semi-rigid pieces (6, 6) of the outer mitten (2a, 2b) prevent the movements that the patient makes with the hand on the inner mitt, are transmitted to the outside of the mitt. 3. Handle according to claims 1 and 2, characterized in that the mouth (E) comprises the mouth (El) of the hand and a longitudinal lateral opening (E2) of aeration. 4. Mitten according to claim 1, characterized in that the closing means (4, 5) consist of respective adhesive strips, especially velcro type. 5. Mitten according to the preceding claims, characterized in that the outer mitt (2) is constituted based on high strength textile and / or plastic material. 6. Mitten according to the preceding claims, characterized in that the inner mitt (3) is made of sweat-absorbent textile material. 7. Mitten according to the preceding claims, characterized in that the semi-rigid material of the flattened pieces (6, 6) of the opposing mittens (2a, 2b) that constitute the outer mitten (2) consist of plastic material.