Garment for Dialysis Patients

Abstract

The present invention provides a garment that includes a neck opening, a front portion, a back portion, and a first and second opposing sleeve portions, and a first, second, third and fourth closable openings. The first and second closable openings extend substantially from a cuff to a shoulder end of the first sleeve portion or the neck opening. The third and fourth closable opening extend substantially from the neck opening to an underarm portion of a first side of the front portion. The garment may also include a pair of pants having a first pant and a second pant each having a front portion and a back portion, and a first and second closable openings extending substantially from an abdomen area to a knee area or ankle area of the front portion of the first and second pants.

Description

PRIORITY CLAIM[0001]This patent application is a non-provisional application of U.S. provisional patent application 60 / 776,254 filed on Feb. 24, 2006 and entitled “Garment for Dialysis Patients,” which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0002]The present invention relates generally to the field of garments and, more particularly, to a garment worn by a patient during dialysis treatments.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0003]Many people, both adults and children, require ongoing medical treatment in which medical practitioners must access certain areas of the body. The medical treatments may be, but are not limited to, dialysis, chemotherapy, post operative treatment and attention to diagnostic equipment. Often these treatments require the patient to expose private areas of their body for extended periods of time in a semi-public area (e.g., a room or ward with other patients without any walls or curtains) because the attending medical personal must ...

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Benefits of technology

[0006]The present invention provides a garment that is attractive, looks like “street clothes”, provides access to the most commonly used areas of the body for ongoing medical treatments, does not expose too much of the body and thus maintains the privacy and dignity of the patent. All of which will improve the mental state of the patient.

Problems solved by technology

Since each treatment can last several hours and these treatments can go on for years, they create an ongoing source of anxiety that can affect the mental state of the patient, which may reduce the successfulness of the treatments.

Although the medical facilities could provide garments or gowns for the patients, this would increase the cost of the treatments and lengthen the time the patient has to be at the facility.

In addition, the patients would likely feel even more uncomfortable.

These designs, however, do not really solve the problem because they expose a larger area of the body than is necessary, are not flexible enough to provide access to the most commonly used areas of the body for ongoing medical treatments and / or use unwieldy and unattractive flaps.

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