Hydrostatic bed
A hydrostatic bed , Nayade or Arnott's bed is the name given to a care bed developed by the Scottish doctor Neil Arnott around 1830 to prevent bed-ridden patients from becoming bedsore . The bed was used in various English hospitals in the mid-19th century .
In 1833 the bed was described in the general repertory of the entire German medical-surgical journalism as a water-filled, tub-like box or skid , which was covered with a wide rubber sheet. A blanket folded several times as a mattress and a pillow were placed on top. It thus resembles the later developed water bed . On this as a floating mattress designated hospital bed, the local pressure load is reduced to the patient's skin, thereby avoiding decubitus ulcers and other skin damage , for example by gangrene , may heal faster. In addition, Arnott recommended using the bed without bedding for other groups of patients. Among other things, he thought of the possibility of cooling febrile patients in the tropics.
literature
- Herrmann Meyer : New Konversations-Lexikon, a dictionary of general knowledge . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1865, Volume 9, p. 240.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b General repertory of the entire German medical-surgical journalism: with consideration of d. Latest and most knowledgeable from d. foreign medical-surgical journal literature. Kollmann, 1833, Volume 2, Volume VII, 5th Issue, pp. 11 and 12.
- ^ Carl Canstatt: The special pathology and therapy: from the clinical standpoint. F. Enke, 1847, Volume 2, §1170, p. 588.
- ↑ a b F. Hahn et al. (Ed.): Journal for surgeons and obstetricians. Ebner and Seubert, 1857, Volume 10, pp. 277-279.