Locomotor Flat Slide Sheet with Handles

The Locomotor Flat Slide Sheet with Handles incorporates a series of handholds, which allows a positive grip when carrying out a patient handling task. The Locomotor Flat Slide Sheet with Handles is a fabric sheet with one low friction surface allowing an individual to be positioned without the need to lift, the multidirectional glide of the fabric allows a patient to be moved in any direction on the bed and reduces shearing to the patient’s body.

The Locomotor Flat Slide Sheet with Handles can be used singularly or in pairs and is for patient handling tasks such as patient turning and moving a patient up the bed. The sheet can also be used for a variety of repositioning tasks, including lateral transfer when used in conjunction with Locomotor Extension Straps and Locomotor Lateral Transfer Slide (both sold separately). 

How to use the Locomotor Flat Slide Sheet with Handles

• Patient turning - Using a pair of flat sheets position one sheet over the other with the handles on the outside and length-ways to the bed. Using a rolling technique (such as used in bed sheet replacement with the patient still in bed) position both sheets underneath the patient ensuring central positioning with regard to both bed and patient. To turn the patient take hold of the top sheet and slide the patient across the bed and then roll the patient back into the middle of the bed.
• Moving a patient up the bed - Using a pair of sheets position under the patient as described above, then using an approved handling technique take hold of the top sheet and slide the patient to the required position.To remove the sheets, reach under the patient between the sheet and the bed and taking the far corner of the sheet fold each edge underneath and pull toward you, peeling the sheet away from patient, preferably working toward the head end of the bed. STEADY the patient as this is performed.

How Do I Clean the Locomotor Slide Sheet?

The Locomotor slide sheets can be washed at 71°C or autoclaved. They may also be sterilised using sodium dichlorosocyanurate or sodium hypochlorite, and if so they should be wiped clean only and then rinsed with water.

Specifications of the Locomotor Flat Slide Sheet with Handles

• Silicone Coated Nylon
• Standard sheet: 200cm x 70cm
• Wide sheet: 200cm x 90cm
• May be washed at 71°C and can also be autoclaved.
• May be sterilised using Sodium Dichloroso-Cyanurate or Sodium Hypochlorite – wipe only and rinse with water