Patent ID: 7444693
Filing Date: 2008-11-04
Classification: A61G

Abstract:
1. An inflatable lift device comprising: a flat blanket having a front, a back, a first side and a second side and including a plurality of inflatable bladders and a seating portion positioned between the first side and the second side of the flat blanket and near the front of the flat blanket, the flat blanket configured to be positioned beneath a patient when the patient is in a supine or prone position on a ground surface; the plurality of inflatable bladders include: an air supply coupled to at least one of the inflatable bladders, wherein the plurality of inflatable bladders are sequentially inflatable with the inflatable back support inflating such that the inflatable back support is inclined relative to the seating portion, which remains substantially parallel to the ground surface thereby raising a patient from the supine or prone position to a seated position, thereafter the inflatable tilt bladder is inflated raising the device and therefore the patient from the seated position to a standing position.