Aerated bed mattress with depression for collection of faeces

摘要

In order to prevent bedsores in patients it is proposed according to the invention that the mattress (3) of a hospital bed (1) be permeable to air and connected via pipelines to a bactericidal chemisorption filter absorption unit (4) from which the purified air passes into the mattress, if appropriate after preheating via the pipelines, the mattress having an aeratable recess (5) in the region of the buttocks of the patient which recess is filled with absorbent aeration napkins (6). <IMAGE>