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Click here to see a video of Sleep-Safe Pillows being used at the Southampton Children's Hospital...
What’s included with Sleep-Safe
Anti-Suffocation Pillows?
Information to help patients, parents, carers and families understand the diagnosis and treatment options, manage living safely with epilepsy and to reduce the risk of SUDEP.
1. The 28 page ‘Patient, parent and carer’ focused summary of the 154 page Online NICE Clinical Guideline NG 217 ‘Epilepsies in children, young people and adults’
(The 154 page Online Guide contains detailed guidance for *everyone* in the epilepsy care pathway: Consultants, Epilepsy Nurses, GPs, Patients, Parents, Carers…)
2. The 31 page Sleep Seizure Harm Prevention Clinical Guideline
3. The 12 page Patient Guide: What you need to know about valproate
4. ‘I Have Epilepsy’ First Aid Help Cards for wallet / purse
5. An MHRA leaflet: ‘Some Questions and Answers about Side Effects’
6. An MHRA ‘Yellow Card’: how to report medication side effects online
7. From a pharmacist: opt-in email ‘signposts’ and news about epilepsy
Best wishes, we look forward to helping you soon
Who else uses Sleep-Safe Pillows?
- NHS Hospitals, Social Services, Care Homes
- Leading Health and Social Care
providers in the UK and overseas…
About 1 in 10 Sleep-Safe pillows are supplied to the USA
About 1 in 10 Sleep-Safe pillows are supplied to France
670 Sleep-Safe Pillows supplied through DannyDid Foundation United States
300 Sleep-Safe Pillows supplied to Association ASPEC Le village du Perche France
200 Sleep-Safe Pillows supplied to the European Union Dravet Syndrome Foundation EU
60 Sleep-Safe Pillows supplied to "Castelnouvel" home for children with epilepsy France
60 Sleep-Safe Pillows supplied to Children with Special Needs Support, Kisumu, Kenya
…and Why do they use Sleep-Safe pillows??
To prevent seizure injuries and avoidable hospital admissions…
- To help reduce the risks of seizures to patients and prevent seizures becoming panic-led hospital admissions
- To support people with epilepsy to remain at home and avoid
the need for acute hospital bed-based care
- To provide the right care, in the right place, at the right time
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UK Conformity AssessedThe Sleep-Safe Anti-Suffocation Pillow is a Class I Medical Device registered at the Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and conforms with the requirements of the Medical Devices Regulations. UK Conformity Assessed is an implicit declaration that Sleep-Safe pillows comply with all UK laws and applicable British conformity assessment procedures.Best wishes, we look forward to helping you soon |
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- Made in the UK from UK sourced materials
- Hand-made in a workshop employing people with disabilities
- UK Product Safety and Fire Regulations compliant
- UK Government Registered Class I Medical Device
- Developed by reputable healthcare professionals, with a lifetime’s experience and expertise within the British National Health Service.
- A family company, run by healthcare professionals. Focussed on Healthcare integrity.
- Sleep-Safe Breathability and Airflow surpasses the British Standard: Sleep-Safe breathability has been tested with a 4kg reproduction ‘head’ to simulate adult inspiratory flow (The British Standard test simulates ‘infant’ breathing.
- UK made from UK sourced materials: no imports from low-wage countries using exploited workers.
- Sleep-Safe Do contain a soft, highly porous material with an open cell structure that allows much greater ‘breathibility’ than ordinary pillows. The gentle, rippled surface of Safe-Sleep pillows provides a profusion of air spaces between the surface of the pillow and the removable micromesh cover.
- Sleep-Safe Don’t contain latex Foam, which can cause allergies, or Memory Foam, which can trp heat and also compress and impede airflow.
Whether you yourself or are a loved one are at risk from seizures, Sleep-Safe Anti-Suffocation Pillows will provide the reassurance and peace of mind you deserve.
Registered as a Class I Medical Device by the UK Government’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, responsible for ensuring that medicines and medical devices work and are safe.
Leading health & social care providers in the UK, USA and Europe and thousands of people with epilepsy already rest assured thanks to SleepSafe anti-suffocation pillows.
Sleep-Safe Anti-Suffocation Pillows & Non Woven Disposable Pillowcases
How can you protect someone against suffocating during seizures while they’re asleep?
An ordinary pillow blocking the nose and mouth.
