ICU pillow device developed in Bath aids care of sickest patients

Share Save Add as preferred on Google Mae Davage , Somerset and Ross Pollard , BBC News, Somerset BBC The BathMat gently raises critically ill patients who need to be placed on their front for many hours Trials of an inflatable pillow developed to make moving ventilated patients lying on their front easier and safer have found it reduces the demands on ICU teams.

The BathMat was created by the University of Bath and Royal United Hospitals (RUH) to be used under a prone patient's chest and abdomen to raise them.

Patients lying prone have to be repositioned up to seven times a day and preliminary findings showed the device cut the number of staff needed from five to three.