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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2009
Patrick Lafleche, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Jean-francois Girard, Quebec, CA;
Patrick Gaudreau Wong, Quebec, CA;
Sylvain Lacasse, St-Romuald, CA;
Sebastien Viger, L'Ancienne-Lorette, CA;
Patrick Lafleche, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Jean-Francois Girard, Quebec, CA;
Patrick Gaudreau Wong, Quebec, CA;
Sylvain Lacasse, St-Romuald, CA;
Sebastien Viger, L'Ancienne-Lorette, CA;
Stryker Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Abstract
A patient support includes a layer of fluid pressurized bladders, the bladders each having a chamber and an upwardly facing surface for facing and supporting a patient, and a cover over the layer of fluid pressurized bladders. Respective bladders in at least a group of the bladders each have a resilient body in its respective chamber to reform the shape of the respective bladder when a compression load on the respective bladder is removed wherein the pressure in the respective bladders is generally maintained without a powered supply of air. The cover has an upwardly facing patient surface and a bladder layer facing surface, with the patient surface for forming a patient support surface on the support, and the bladder layer facing surface for lying on the upwardly facing surfaces of the bladders.