Patent ID: 8214951

Claim:
A patient restraint device comprising: a body section dimensioned to receive a torso of a patient, wherein the body section includes first and second lateral edges and has a first and a second surface, wherein the first surface receives the patient and the second surface is adapted to be positioned on an exterior surface; a first arm restraint attached to the first lateral edge, wherein the first arm restraint includes a first flexible member that is dimensioned to extend substantially continuously along a first length comprising a length of the patient's first arm from a location above the patient's elbow to a location adjacent the patient's wrist, and extend outward from the first lateral side about a bottom surface adjacent the exterior surface and then about an outer periphery of the patient's first arm away from the exterior surface; and wherein the first arm restraint further includes a second flexible member dimensioned to extend substantially continuously along the first length, and extend outward from the first lateral edge adjacent the first side and upwards away from the first surface of the body section about an inner periphery of the patient's first arm and mate with the first flexible member at a point adjacent an upper surface of the patient's arm located away from the exterior surface substantially continuously along the first length so as to be secured thereto substantially along the first length and so that the engagement between the first and second flexible member urges the patient's arm inward towards the patient's torso positioned on the first surface of the body section.