Treatment of Insomniac Patients with the Air-Fluidized Bed
WILLIAM C. MILLER JR. M.D.1, and
JAY T. SHURLEY M.D.2
1 Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Medical University of South Carolina, 80 Barre St., Charleston, S.C. 29401
2 Career Research Professor of Psychiatry, University of Oklahoma School of Medicine, Oklahoma City, Okla.
The authors make a preliminary report on the use of the air-fluidized bed in treating patients with disabling insomnia. They believe the bed helped the majority of their patients by providing a physically comfortable environment, in terms of weight distribution, support, temperature, and humidity; this promoted positive fantasies.
