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Seems like there's a hole for the patient's head up top, and two heavy metal attachments on either side at the bottom. It wasn't made out of lead so it wasn't used as an x-ray apron. Any ideas?

Edit: It's a sling for a Hoyer lift... thanks Lynne!
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i think this is probably an older model posey restraint
anna
Wed 03-23-2005
it almost looks like its upside down i this pics. is that an upside down number 5 . but then again the 5 next to it is upside down. u got me im stumped.
MaDMaN
Thu 03-24-2005
Was thinking the same thing anna but most posey restraints ive seen have arm holes. Perhaps we are thinking too linear, maybe a sort of canvas transport for small linen? Maybe it fits around a metal frame. Im stumped.
Kate
Sat 03-26-2005
What room was this found in. That may give us a better idea what it could be. To me it looks like a smock due to it not looking like it has a back to it. An apron could also fit how it looks from the finished edges and no buckles. Don't think it was a straight jacket or other restraint but anything is possible for that time period.
DevilishSaint
Wed 03-30-2005
it looks like it has medal rods in it. very strange, i totally dont know what it is, and ive worked as a cardiac care tech for fourteen years now. weird
anna
Thu 03-31-2005
it very well could possibly be a restraint blanket, it is used on a restraint bed, when the traditional 4 point restraints(arms and legs) were ineffective this was used in addition to the 4 points to securly keep a patient from moving, i worked in a state hospital for 15 and half years and it seems very familiar to what we used
brent
Mon 04-18-2005
This is a sling for a Hoyer lift.
Lynne
Fri 06-10-2005
This is a restraint vest to keep someone in a bed or chair. These are no longer used as so many patients have been strangled by them.

so sad our society treats people like this.

;-((
Jill B
Wed 08-03-2005
Don't make me have to come over there, you people! >:-(

This is a sling for a Hoyer lift, and that is a mechanical lift used to transfer people from place to place without having to use your back to lift them. Safer for them, easier for you. You can lift folks out of their chairs, onto toilets, into bed, into the pool, into the tub (or shower trolley!), etc.
http://www.dmeonline.com/PTLIFTS1.JPG
http://www.rehabmart.com/pim...-D_en.jpg
http://www.rehabmart.com/20...Hoy18.jpg
http://www.edmond-wheelchair.c...sling.JPG
Lynne
Wed 08-03-2005
Here are some pix of how these things are used. It is sometimes easier to understand how things work if they can be seen "in action."

http://www.southwestmedical.com/

Go to Search (top right) and type in "slings." By the by, notice the commode slings toward the bottom.
Lynne
Wed 08-03-2005
I agree with Lynne. We use the Hoyer slings without the metal bars, but I have used those in the past. Scary to use sometimes, you always feel like the person will just fall out and hit the floor.
Kara Sunshine
Thu 09-08-2005
one more comment... it looks like what is called a "toileting sling", where you lift the person up from the chair and set them on the commode. That is one of the older kinds, that you have to literally crank like a water crank to move them up and down, and they swing from chains... To me, sounds kind of kinky for personal use, but the residents HATE them.
Kara Sunshine
Thu 09-08-2005
Kara Sunshine would find this sort of thing "kinky"

and I think it reads G5 not an upside down 5 at all.

Lynne, YOU GO GIRL!!!!!! Mauh!
~Me
Fri 09-09-2005
Thanks Lynne, for that refreshing touch of reality. Don't the rest of you think about anything except tying people down??
Wanda
Fri 10-28-2005
Wanda, I oughts to hug you, 'cept people would assume that restraint was being involved. ;-)
Lynne
Fri 10-28-2005
Lynne thanks!!!! It seems some people don't understand that alot of the equip found in these places could be found in any other 'normal' health facility as most of these places provided all the same medical services that a conventional hospital would. Not everyone that worked in these facilities felt an uncontrollable desire to place another human in a camisole or 4/5 point bed restraint. If thats what someone is into go to an S&M site.
chvytrux
Sun 03-12-2006
hoyer and marisa lifts are commonly used in nursing homes and rehab facilities and rehab, I mean post-surgical, that kind of stuff, i.e., hip replacement, yada yada yada
rtotten
Sat 04-08-2006
Lynne: So this would have been used in conjuntion with a piece of apparatus like this one Motts saw in Glenn Dale?

http://www.opacity.us/...1_bathtub_assist.htm
Stormsearch
Fri 05-19-2006
Yes!
Lynne
Fri 05-19-2006
Thanks Lynne, I was looking at it guessing it was a bib of some sort (for TB, coughing).

Why would anyone feel the need to restrain a TB patient, but then I hear you lot are all just a bunch of sadistic bastards! I bet you drown kittens just for fun, huh.


(Pls take that with the humour it was intended, I retract if you dont see the funny side of it).
Felyne
Wed 09-20-2006
is it suposed to like hold the patients from fighting the nurses and doctors or is it suposed to keep them still when they were being treated?
Kikyou
Tue 05-15-2007
Hoyer lift - see above.
Lynne
Tue 05-15-2007
That is a sling for a Hoyer lift. They come in all sizes and are used in moving and lifting people who do not have the ability to do that themselves. Welcome to my world, the world of a special needs mother. I have a Hoyer in my home to help with the lifting.
Dead Girl Dose
Tue 06-10-2008
Ah yes, it hooks onto a metal device too. There is a lever that you push up and down that raises it. A release slowly lets it back down.
Dead Girl Dose
Tue 06-10-2008
Yipes, sorry I am posting so much. I looked at the photograph again and it is upside down. The hole in the middle is about where a person's crotch would be. A leg would be on the longer part to either side. There really is no good head support on these things, aside from the whole wrapping up feeling of the sling. all four sides and a few other places attach to the metal part that lifts and lowers the person.
Dead Girl Dose
Tue 06-10-2008
This site welcomes comments explaining these facilities and found objects, thank you for the info!
Motts
Wed 06-11-2008
uh huh, it looks like a bib....
medical lover
Sun 06-15-2008
What you are visualizing is nothing more than a vest restraint. We used them a lot where I worked as a registered nurse. I worked in a hospital. They do not use these kinds of restraints anymore. Nor do they use chemical restraints. These vests were dangerous to a patient due to suffocation and other risk factors.
Colleen
Mon 08-17-2009
To Colleen : This is not a restraint. Please browse through the other comments. At least two people have stated what this was, and what it is still used for. It is the sling for a hoyer lift. Again, it is not a restraint. If you truely were a nurse, you might know this especially if you have worked in a retirement home.
To Colleen
Thu 09-02-2010

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