US 12,070,429 B2
Patient positioning
Farokh R. Demehri, Brookline, MA (US); Heung Bae Kim, Weston, MA (US); Brianna L Slatnick, Cambridge, MA (US); Robert W. Crum, Brookline, MA (US); Kyle C. Wu, Boston, MA (US); Alexander Yang, Boston, MA (US); and Steven J. Fishman, Weston, MA (US)
Assigned to Children's Medical Center Corporation, Boston, MA (US)
Filed by Children's Medical Center Corporation, Boston, MA (US)
Filed on Oct. 12, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/964,175.
Application 17/964,175 is a continuation of application No. PCT/US2021/027091, filed on Apr. 13, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/034,685, filed on Jun. 4, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/009,258, filed on Apr. 13, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0036914 A1, Feb. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. A61G 7/00 (2006.01); A61G 7/05 (2006.01)
CPC A61G 7/001 (2013.01) [A61G 7/05 (2013.01); A61G 2200/325 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
a patient proning device including:
a conformable structure shaped and sized to enclose a front and back of a human body while exposing at least a head of the human body along an axis of the patient proning device aligned to the human body when the human body is placed within the conformable structure, the conformable structure including viscoelastic foam selected to support and conform to the human body on a bottom surface of the human body, and the conformable structure formed of at least two radial segments in a clam-shell arrangement separable about the axis to permit the human body to be removably and replaceably inserted into and removed from within the conformable structure, and
a shell coupled to the conformable structure, the shell including one or more continuous sheets of a flexible material securable about the conformable structure along at least a portion of the axis and operable to impart a substantially elliptical cross section to the patient proning device along the axis when secured about the conformable structure;
a bedding surface for the patient proning device, the bedding surface including raised edges to resist translation of the shell relative to the bedding surface during rotation of the shell; and
a low-friction interface between an exterior surface of the shell and the bedding surface and substantially enclosing the shell, the low-friction interface including a closed loop of deformable sheet material disposed between the shell and the bedding surface, an interior surface of the closed loop of deformable sheet material having a self-coefficient of friction for internal contact, wherein an exterior surface of the closed loop of deformable sheet material has a coefficient of friction with the shell and the bedding surface greater than the self-coefficient of friction for internal contact.