RT Journal
A1 Stryker H
T1 A device for turning the frame patient
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1939
FD November 4
VO 113
IS 19
SP 1731
OP 1732
DO 10.1001/jama.1939.72800440001010
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1939.72800440001010
AB Hospitals or physicians who use the anterior and posterior Bradford frames are confronted with the nursing problem of changing the patient from one frame to the other. A method which enables one nurse to turn any patient without lifting and with a minimum of discomfort to the patient is herein described. It has been found satisfactory in the daily care of from fifteen to twenty such patients at the University Hospital. If a patient who requires frame care is allowed to remain a part of the day on his abdomen, he is more comfortable and is less liable to develop decubital ulcers or respiratory or renal complications.METHOD OF TURNING PATIENT 
    The patient is placed on his back on a posterior frame. This frame is then suspended about 1 foot from the mattress, each end being attached to a turning device which clamps on to the head and foot of