How to use IPV
Product Demo IPV


Make sure that the entire trunk (thorax and abdomen) is on the IBO.
Slide the IBO to the side where the white valve is located, away from the tilt direction.


Place the thorax cover on the patient. Use the skeleton as a reference:
• The cover moves about 3 centimeters while turning. Therefore, move the cover a few centimeters in the tilt direction: align the line with the arrow of the correct tilt direction with the patient’s center line.
•The cross of the tilt line must lie exactly on the xyphoid.
First attach the side strip of the tilt line (2a) to the patient’s body. Then attach the other side strip (2b). Make sure that the cover lies tightly over the patient’s body.


• Select the line with the arrow in the tilt direction and place that line on the centerline of the patient.
• The cross of the tilt line must lie exactly on the pubic symphysis.
First, attach the side strip of the tilt side (3a) on the patient’s body. Then stick the other side strip (3b). Make sure that the cover lies tightly over the patient’s body.


The hoses of the cushions are diverted to the feet, with the valves in the direction of the IBO valve.
Attach the ‘side adhesive strips’ of the cushion tightly to the patient’s body. Start with the tape at the tilting side (4a – 4b – 4c – 4d).


Now attach the shoulder strips (5a & 5b) of the thoracic cushion.
Cross the ankle from the tilt side over the ankle of the turning side (5c).


Stop inflating from time to time to slide the IBO to the side so that the patient tilts in the middle of the bed.
Gently roll the patient into prone position. Hang the IBO on a hook; it automatically deflates.


First, inflate the thoracic cushion. Do this with special attention to the position of the patient’s neck. Then inflate the pelvic cushion.
Stop inflating when the cushions are filled to the maximum. You will hear a whistle signal.


Use the nose of the Hummingbird to inflate the IPV if necessary.
Use the Hummingbird’s horn to deflate the IPV cushion and release pressure if desired.
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What our clients say about us
“We can now easily reposition the patient alone. Before we needed two, sometimes three nurses. The advantage of the Morphemat for the patient? Its back is supported from neck to legs and not at two points. See our video testimonial”
Johan Jespers
Nurse Intensive Care Unit
“The IPV is a super product. Thank you for your beautiful and practical solution to ventilate patients comfortably in the prone position.”
Team Intensive Care
AZ St-Maarten Belgium
“This method is simple, more ergonomic and more hygienic than the ways and materials with which one is familiar today. The position of the patient was correct and stable.”
OR Team
UZ Leuven (Belgium)
“One day these medical devices will become mandatory.”
Neurosurgeon
UZ Gent (Belgium)
“With the Ergotrics inflatable prone positioning system you can work much faster, more hygienically and healthier for the staff, both when the patient is transferred to the prone position and during the positioning itself.”
Prof Robert Pflugmacher,
Universitätsklinikum Bonn (Germany)
“The ergonomic advantages of inflatable positioning devices are clear. Furthermore we think that the optimal positioning also will result in less intra-abdominal pressure and therefore less venous pressure, better operating conditions and possibly less intraoperative blood loss. We will investigate this further.”
Dr. F. van Eijs, M.D, Ph.D.
Anesthetist, ETZ The Netherlands
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