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The Ultimate Gown can improve patient comfort.

Patient gowns are well-known to be a chief complaint within hospitals and medical facilities, and with good reason: they are blatantly revealing, and in an open and impersonal setting.
A recent consumer study found standard hospital gowns to be a chief cause of patient unrest, and that personal distaste for these gowns causes patients to practically look for and find other dissatisfactions, as well.
In fact, 55 percent of patients are dissatisfied with the overall service in hospitals, and 40 percent say that the deprivations in modesty and privacy caused by these gowns were the primary reason of this dissatisfaction.
Some people actually refuse medical service due to these gowns. One study found that 30 percent of persons of strict religious faiths will skip outpatient visits to clinics and hospitals specifically due to the use of standard patient gowns.
These standard gowns can even hinder patient recovery. A recent medical study found that in-patients undergoing standard medical tests while wearing open-back hospital gown are apt to feel depression, psychological stress and even physical stress.
For example, when under monitoring or undergoing an EKG, gowns are stripped away from a patient's torso to apply sensor leads. These gowns aren't reapplied to cover the patient until the leads are completely removed.
During these procedures is when patients are more likely to feel pressure, anxiety and discomfort, and all of these negativities are heightened by the unavoidable exposure from standard patient gowns.
Not only can these responses of anxiety and stress alter the results of those medical tests, but they can delay patient recovery time.
Gowns must be reapplied upon patients following surgery, as well. This isn't easy to accomplish with one-sided gowns, however, and can cause immediate strain on incisions and stitches, which also affects patient comfort and recovery.
The new Ultimate Gown can address these principal causes of patient complaint, though. It restores privacy, it takes away the common cause of dissatisfaction, it restores patient comfort, and these benefits of the Ultimate Gown can even help patients recover faster.

The Ultimate Gown can improve caregiver comfort, too.

For those who work in healthcare environments, it would seem logical that their highest occupational risk is acquiring the illnesses to which they are regularly exposed to from their patients.
That's not true, however. The most common workplace injury in healthcare environments is to caregivers' backs, and because of the stress and strain endured on the job.
In fact, hospitals and nursing homes are the top two workplaces for lower back injuries amongst employees. Nurses and nurses' aides have the third highest rate of workplace injuries of all trades, and more than half of all who work in these occupational fields suffer from regular pain in the lower back.
The cause of these injuries? Most frequently, it's simply due to moving patients. When patients who might be physically restricted or not fully conscious are in need of common care – changing, check-ups on dressings, and many other care procedures – medical staff need to remove, even partially, the gowns those patients wear. The only way to do so with those who are dressed in open-back patient gowns, though, is to physically move those patients. That's when these common injuries to medical staff occur.
While most physical occupational fields have labor-law restrictions ranging from 51 to 70 pounds in maximum lifting weights, there are no such limits for medical caregivers. And patients typically weigh two to three times more than those restrictions applied in physical labor.
The new Ultimate Gown can eliminate these risks and subsequent injuries, however. Should a catheter need application or if a patient is in need of changing, a caregiver can simply unsnap the front section of the Ultimate Gown instead of having to roll the patient to lift away the sidewalls that he or she may lie upon. In the process, the physical stress ordinarily encountered is removed, and for the both the caregiver and the patient.
The Ultimate Gown can satisfy the established needs of patients, caregivers, and medical facilities.