Key Features
- Designed to provide a comfortable, versatile patient restraint
- Safety first design
- 2” thick foam padding
- For use in wheelchair or bed
- Launderable
These extra padded mitts limit picking, scratching, the ability to grab tubes and bruising other residents. They also limit the hand range-of-motion when the extra tie strap is used.
Amply cushioned with 1.5" thick padding, the universally sized Skil-Care Universal Padded-Plus Mitts are a comfortable patient restraint to limit the amount of picking and scratching by patients. The CooLine mesh cover allows for visual inspection of the hands while also promoting air circulation. These mitts are used in wheelchair or bed and are completely launderable after removing insert.
Safety First Design: Skil-Care's Padded Mitts provide a gentle solution to prevent self-injury or pulling at IV lines, offering safety with dignity for patients in care.
Breathable Comfort: Made with lightweight materials and a mesh design, these mitts allow for air circulation, reducing heat and enhancing patient comfort during use.
Secure Fit: The mitts come with adjustable straps that ensure a snug fit while being easy to put on and remove by caregivers, ensuring convenience and efficiency.
Versatile Use: Ideal for various healthcare settings, these padded mitts cater to patients with dementia, post-surgery recovery, or special needs requiring hand restraint.
Skil-Care Specializes In: Bed and wheelchair positioning, mattresses, skin protection, gait and transfer assistance, exercise, bariatric accessories, sensory stimulation, physical restraints and numerous other products that are essential.
Product Highlights
- Helps limit self-injury and disruption of treatment by patients
- Amply cushioned with 2” thick foam padding
- Easy-to-secure closure eliminates cumbersome shoelace ties
- Added hook and loop to prevent a loose end
- Packaged with tie straps to limit resident’s arm movement
- CooLine mesh cover allows easy visibility to the hand skin
- May be laundered and dried at temperatures up to 180F (82C). Do not bleach
Size: Universal
Unit: 1 Pair
Thickness:
Padded: 3/4”
Padded-Plus: 2"
Indications
The Skil-Care Padded Mitts & Padded Plus Mitts are recommended for use with a patient who:
- Removes bandages and dressings
- Picks and scratches at wounds
- Grasps and pulls out feeding and naso-gastric tubes
Contraindications for Use
The Padded Mitts or Padded-Plus Mitts are not for patients:
- Whose hand strength makes it possible for them to grasp tubing.
- Who are able to turn their hands over inside the mitts.
Application
1. All mitts fit both left & right hands. Place patient’s hand in mitt, palm side on padding, top of hand facing mesh.
2. Wrap strap around patient’s wrist, making certain to pass wrist strap through loop on top side of mitt.
3. Secure the mitt to the resident’s wrist. The slider buckle comes pre-threaded. Wrist strap should fit snugly.
Caution: Do not overtighten. Doing so could cut off circulation to patient’s hand. You should be able to slip one finger between mitt cuff and wrist. Loose end of strap can be secured with hook & loop. In the event the pre-threaded webbing comes out of the slider buckle, re-thread the slider buckle.
Warning:
Hook & Loop are only provided to secure loose end of strap.
Hook & Loop is NOT a substitute for slider buckle
4. If patient’s arm and hand movement need to be restricted, use the set of loop straps
supplied with the mitts. Thread non-looped end of strap through loop on back of mitt.
5. Thread the non-looped end of strap through loop on end of strap.
6. Tie strap to wheelchair, bed, or geri-chair.
7. Raise and lock bed rails before leaving patient.
Laundering
This device should not be laundered or dried at temperatures that exceed 180°F (82°C). Do not use bleach.
Caution: Federal law restricts this device to sale by or on the order of a physician or licensed health care professional.
California residents: Proposition 65 WARNING
