A patient transfer device includes a patient support surface having a top surface adapted for positioning a patient thereon and a bottom surface defining one or more areas having a concave curvature for passage of air flow therethrough. Passage of the air flow along the one or more areas having a concave curvature provides an air bearing below at least a portion of the bottom surface. Exemplary patient transfer systems and methods of moving a patient are also provided.

Surgical table for providing hyperextension of the hip joint during direct anterior approach without need for lowering the distal end of the operating table. The attachment will allow external rotation as well as adduction for better exposure of the proximal end of the femur. It further allow for motorized traction of the lower extremity controlled by the operating surgeon. The inventive device conveniently incorporates a femoral elevator mechanism that will raise the proximal end of the femoral bone for better visualization through the surgical wound and easier reaming of the femoral canal.

A patient bed assembly unit as well as to a thermotherapy device for newborns includes a bed frame and a drawer. The bed frame has a drawer guide configured to make possible a drawer movement from a central pushed-in position in the bed frame along a first pull-out direction and in a second pull-out direction, which direction is opposite the first pull-out direction, into a pulled-out position of the drawer. A drawer-centering device acts on the drawer to move it into the central pushed-in position. The drawer can be removed from the guide. A drawer anti-tilt device is provided, which transmits a torque acting on the drawer directly to a bed frame and prevents the downward tilting of the drawer relative to the bed frame about an axis extending at right angles to the pull-out directions.

An adjusting method and an adjusting system are provided. The adjusting method for human body support device includes the following steps: extracting a pressure distribution information when a user is lying on a human body support device; analyzing a posture of the user based on the pressure distribution information; analyzing a human musculoskeletal distribution information of the skeleton-muscle of the user and a plurality of coordinate values corresponding to the skeleton-muscle of the user based on the pressure distribution information; obtaining a plurality of high-risk regions corresponding to the plurality of pressure regions based on the human musculoskeletal distribution information, a plurality of coordinate values corresponding to the skeleton-muscle of the user, and the posture of the user; and adjusting a pressure value configuration of an airbag module of the human body support device based on the plurality of high-risk regions.

Described herein is a system including a patient support unit having a patient environment, a heating module, a sensor module, and a control system. The control system is configured to selectively operate the system in a pre-programmed warm-up mode configured to gradually warm the patient in the patient environment according to a series of stepped skin temperature increases performed over a series of stepped time durations to achieve a goal skin temperature. Related apparatus, system, methods and/or articles are described.

A patient arm support, a method for using thereof, for supporting an arm of a patient during an operation when said patient is lying in a supine position on an operating table. The patient arm support has a base, an upper surface opposite to the base shaped to receive and to secure onto the patient arm support at least a portion of the arm; a proximal end; a distal end; a groove, running along at least a portion of a length of the upper surface of the patient arm support, for receiving at least one of at least a portion of the arm and a hand joined to the arm.

A support apparatus for positioning an individual's arm while the individual is in a supine position comprising a first portion configured to rest across the midsection of an individual's body and a second portion configured to rest alongside the individual's upper body. The first portion and the second portion both comprise a top surface and a bottom surface and at least one of the top surface of the first portion and the top surface of the second portion are further indented to receive one or more parts of the individual's arm. The bottom surface of the first portion is further indented to receive the individual's midsection. The configuration of the first portion and the section portion of the support apparatus further enables the individual's shoulder to be positioned in a neutral position.

Decompression table embodiments are described that provide body weight support distributed along the body by providing a lumbar support harness as well as separate foot and leg attachment elements, Other embodiments may either alone or in combination with body weight support elements may provide elements for placing the body in a pre-stretched configuration during decompression by curving the body support portion of the table and strategically adding controlled spacing from the cervical and lumbar areas to the table surface.

A surgical table for supporting a patient over a floor and including a base assembly, a support column assembly and a patient support structure. The base assembly supported on the floor and including a first end, a second end opposite the first end, and a member extending along a base longitudinal axis between the first and second ends. The support column assembly moveably coupled with the base assembly and configured to translate between the first and second ends of the base assembly along the member extending therebetween, the support column assembly being the only support column assembly coupled with the base assembly. The patient support structure including a first end, a second end opposite the first end, and a longitudinal axis extending between the first and second ends, the second end of the patient support structure supported off of the support column assembly in a cantilevered fashion.

To provide a bed apparatus that permits the bed to be tilted only when the knee bottom in the bed apparatus is raised so as to be able to positively prevent the user from slipping to the foot side when the bed is tilted. The bed apparatus includes: a tilting driver that can perform a tilting operation of the upper frame so as to create difference in height between the head side and the foot side and, at least, lower the foot side; and an operational state detector that detects that a knee bottom actuation assembly for raising and lowering the knee bottom is operable. The tilting driver performs the tilting operation when the knee bottom forms an angle of 0 degrees or greater relative to the ground and when the operational state detector has detected that the knee bottom actuation assembly is operable.