Intensive Care Patient Gowns

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I am interested in what patient gowns are being used in Intensive Care Units. Intensive Care have independent needs due to the presence of an Arterial Line and Central Venous Line/s. The patient is commonly sedated or has limited mobiity making application of a regular gown difficult. If anyone has an innovative/successful gown your feedback would be most appreciated.

kind regards

Jen

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Specializes in med/surg and Tele.

everytime I have floated to an ICU or CCU or whatnot, all they have had was regular gowns. Nothing fancy and designed for critical care units.

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Specializes in EMT-P.

Apparently you have not come across my latest "Noholeshow" (c) line of patient apparel. Okay, I am just kidding, but could not help myself... :p

Sorry, were you serious about that?

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Specializes in Med/Surg.

I am curious what you find difficult about it?

The gowns that we have, at least (and I would imagine most places do, too) all have snaps for whatever on the sleeves, so you can apply them around IV's, so they can be put on someone without them moving. Lay it over them and snap around the arms. If someone can't move/lift their head at all, I usually won't tie it, just tuck the ties behind their neck until an opportune time presents itself.

What changes would you like to see?

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Specializes in Critical Care (ICU and ER).

Our facility uses 4 types of gowns. The standard gown hospital wide has shoulder snaps and a front pocket to accomodate tele. We use these in the ICU as well. There are larger gowns for bariatric pts but they also have the same snaps and pocket. There's a third gown that has no snaps or pocket, we typically use that for L&D and we change any pt into one if they're going to MRI (presumably due to the stainless snaps being magnetic, rumor has it they found that the hard way, same thing with the metal spring clips on the foley bags). There's a fourth paper gown that all OR and psych pts wear, and any pt that has clothing taken for forensic purposes. The paper gowns are really large and will cover a "normal" person front and back, tied to the front.

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Specializes in SRNA.

Snaps up the sleeves allow easy application.

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Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.

We have snaps of the sleeves for easy access and easy to maneuver around all the tubes and cords. Ours have a tele pocket also.

The maternity gowns for my last child were nice and we got to take it home. I still have mine it was like a long thick pajama with discreet breastfeeding pockets so it was easy to nurse while wearing the gown and it was very discreet when you did. I used it at home a lot for night time feedings.

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Specializes in ICU, M/S,Nurse Supervisor, CNS.

We use the same gowns as the rest of the hospital, though we do tend to use the snap-sleeve gowns more often than the other units.

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Specializes in Psychiatry, ICU, ER.

Same here. Snap sleeves. No matter what lines you got going where, you can always lift up an arm, tuck half the sleeve under, bring around to front, and snap it on. Dunno why that'd be so hard!

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Snap sleeve gowns here too. Although, our bariatric gowns don't have snap sleeves so we generally just lay them over our larger patients. I'm not sure why they don't have snaps. Is this the case for you guys too?

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Specializes in Med/Surg.
Snap sleeve gowns here too. Although, our bariatric gowns don't have snap sleeves so we generally just lay them over our larger patients. I'm not sure why they don't have snaps. Is this the case for you guys too?

Our bariatric gowns have snap sleeves.

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