Rehabilitation clothes for breast cancer patients

Abstract

Hospital clothing affects the quality of medical services, psychological comfort and well-being of the patient. The aim of this study was to develop an ergonomic set of women's clothing for hospital patients from Mammology department taking into account features of the disease and its treatment specificity. Problem solving based on the analysis of the situation by pre - identifying the patients’ requirements to hospital clothes, optimal completeness, types of products and materials. The new female hospital clothes set consist of three types of products: corsage, bridge and dressing gown. In order to facilitate medical procedures and manipulations by dressing the models have separate functional and constructive elements. In particular, for camouflage certain medical devices such as drainage bags, monitors, pumps, etc., at the side details of the corset are specifically designed discrete holes, and dressing gown has large inside pockets.