Human body cover with medical accident prevention function

Abstract

The present invention provides a human body cover wherein a human body cover main unit such as a quilt or a blanket is divided into a plurality of parts in a longitudinal direction thereof, and the divided parts are detachably formed to overlap in such a manner that the part closer to an upper side of a human body is positioned on the top of the part subsequent thereto, whereby the intravenous drip administered part can be exposed and a condition of the drip infusion can be checked without pulling off the human body cover main unit.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a human body cover intended for use in medical institutions, wherein a human body cover main unit is divided into a plurality of parts in a longitudinal direction thereof, and the fact that the human body cover main unit is wet is proved at a glance when it is wet for some reason, thereby providing a function to prevent accidents due to coming off of a drip infusion or the like in the medical institutions or in households with a person who needs care. [0003] 2. Description of the Related Art [0004] In medical institutions, there have heretofore exist specially-designed beds but no specially-designed quilts, so that the quilts used in the medical institutions are totally the same as conventional ones for household use. Thus, when an intravenous drip injection is given to a patient, a health care worker needs, for the purpose of accident prevention, to pull the quilt off the sleeping p...

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Benefits of technology

[0010] There is thus a need in medical institutions for a specially-designed quilt which, when, for example, a intravenous drip is administered, reduces a burden on a patient and which prevents accidents resulting from disconnection of a juncture which is a drip infusion line due to some mechanism that happens in a invisible area under a quilt.

[0011] It is an object of the invention to provide a quilt which reduces a part exposed when a drip infusion is checked so as to relieve the burden on the patient, for example, during the intravenous drip administration and which is provided with a portion to enable the drip infusion line to be directly observed in order to prevent the accidents resulting from the disconnection of the juncture which is the drip infusion line due to some mechanism that happens in the invisible area.

[0012] To solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a human body cover wherein a human body cover main unit such as a quilt or a blanket is divided into a plurality of parts in a longitudinal direction thereof, and the divided parts are detachably formed to overlap in such a manner that the part closer to an upper side of a human body is positioned on the top of the part subsequent thereto, whereby the intravenous drip administered part can be exposed and a condition of the drip infusion can be checked without pulling off the human body cover main unit.

Problems solved by technology

However, it is painful for anyone including those after surgery or those having a disease to be awaken by having the quilt pulled off many times at night.

However, if a hand or leg is left lying on the quilt, this part is exposed to an outside air to cause the patient to feel cold and insecure, which is painful for the patient after the surgery or having the disease.

Especially when the intravenous drip is administered into a forearm, a shoulder has also to be exposed on the quilt together with the forearm, which can cause stiffness or a pain in the shoulder due to the cold.

Not only having the quilt pulled off but also sleeping while a part of a body is placed on the quilt is painful for the patient.

As described above, when the patient is asleep, there is no choice but to pull off the quilt or leave the intravenous drip administered part exposed so as to check the current condition of the drip infusion line, and therefore, there is not any method to check the drip infusion line which reduces the burdens on the patient and the health care worker.

Consequently, in many medical institutions, the health care workers are only mentally encouraged to be careful to prevent accidents, and even when it is impossible to check whether abnormalities have occurred because the part where the intravenous drip is administered is actually hidden under the quilt, a checking operation may not performed considering on the basis of experience and speculation that no abnormalities have occurred.

This is the best course of action that the health care workers can take so that the patient will not be awaken and suffer by having the quilt pulled off at night, but behind this, several medical accidents have actually occurred leading to death due to the fact that the drip infusion line has come off in an invisible area under the quilt.

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