PATIENT HANDLING & FURNITURE
WAFFLE Seat Cushion
April 30, 2013 9:47 am | by EHOB | Product Releases | CommentsAvailable in four sizes (Original, Standard, Pediatric & Bariatric), EHOB’s WAFFLE Seat Cushion redistributes a patient’s weight, provides comfort, and works to prevent and treat pressure ulcers. The cushion features a unique, low-profile design that contours and cradles surgical patients while in the seat.
LISTED UNDER: Wheelchairs/Accessories
Stretcher-Chairs
April 19, 2013 9:28 am | by TransMotion Medical | Transmotion Medical Inc. | Product Releases | CommentsTransMotion Medical offers a line of stretcher-chairs, designed to be safe patient handling equipment in a Universal Care Platform. Each stretcher-chair is a chair, stretcher, outpatient surgery table, recliner, and transport device – all in one.
LISTED UNDER: Chairs | Patient Transfer Equipment
Positioning System
April 16, 2013 9:40 am | by Xodus Medical | Product Releases | CommentsThe Pink Pad - Pigazzi Positioning System from Xodus Medical is designed to mold to the patient's body, providing stability and maintaining patient position throughout the procedure. Its for single patient use, and it decreases potential cross contamination with reusables.
LISTED UNDER: Patient Transfer Equipment
Transfer & Lift Device
March 20, 2013 10:16 am | by HoverTech International | HoverTech International | Product Releases | CommentsHoverTech International introduces a next generation patient handling solution: the HoverSling Combination Transfer & Lift Device for lateral transfers, repositioning, turning, and vertical lifting.
LISTED UNDER: Patient Transfer Equipment
Stretcher-Chairs
March 4, 2013 11:31 am | by TransMotion Medical | Transmotion Medical Inc. | Product Releases | CommentsTransMotion Medical offers a line of stretcher-chairs, designed to be safe patient handling equipment in a Universal Care Platform. Each stretcher-chair is a chair, stretcher, outpatient surgery table, recliner, and transport device – all in one.
LISTED UNDER: Patient Transfer Equipment | Stretchers
Robot Accessory System For Positioning
February 14, 2013 2:24 pm | by Medicus | MEDICUS Surgical | Product Releases | CommentsMedicus offers a robot accessory system for extreme Trendelenburg positioning. According to the company, this system consists of two important components that make extreme robotic positioning safer, easier, and faster while assisting in reducing nosocomial infections.
LISTED UNDER: Patient Transfer Equipment
The Pink Pad
February 11, 2013 10:08 am | by Xodus Medical | Xodus Medical | Product Releases | CommentsThe Pink Pad - Pigazzi Positioning System from Xodus Medical is designed to mold to the patient's body, providing stability and maintaining patient position throughout the procedure. Its for single patient use, and it decreases potential cross contamination with reusables.
LISTED UNDER: Supports | Patient Transfer EquipmentStudy Highlights Important Role That Patients Play In Determining Outcomes
February 5, 2013 10:32 am | News | CommentsWhen it comes to health care, patients with the motivation, knowledge, skills and confidence to manage their own health have better health outcomes and incur fewer health care costs. Using a Patient Activation Measure that assesses beliefs, knowledge and confidence in managing health-related tasks, the researchers found that patient scores on a questionnaire that ranks patient activation showed that patients' responses in effect predicted their overall care costs — even when adjusted by the severity of patients' health conditions, age, sex and income.
LISTED UNDER: PATIENT HANDLING & FURNITURE
Hospitalist Survey: Patient Loads Often At Unsafe Levels
February 4, 2013 9:40 am | by Alvin Tran | Articles | CommentsNearly forty percent of hospital-based general practitioners who are responsible for overseeing patients’ care say they juggle unsafe patient workloads at least once a week, according to a study published Monday as a research letter in JAMA Internal Medicine.
LISTED UNDER: PATIENT HANDLING & FURNITURE
Robot Accessory System For Patient Positioning
December 11, 2012 10:27 am | by MEDICUS | MEDICUS Surgical | Product Releases | CommentsMEDICUS offers a robot accessory system for extreme Trendelenburg positioning. According to the company, this system consists of two important components that make extreme robotic positioning safer, easier, and faster while assisting in reducing nosocomial infections.
LISTED UNDER: Patient Restraints | Patient Transfer Equipment
Swivel Nurse Documentation Station
November 13, 2012 12:29 pm | Steris Corporation | Product Releases | CommentsSTERIS® offers the Swivel Nurse Documentation Station by Stanley® Innerspace® that allows circulating nurses to work smarter. This station gives maximum work area and surface, while giving the flexibility demanded in the OR.
LISTED UNDER: Work StationsPediatric Pads
October 12, 2012 7:29 am | Product Releases | CommentsWith approximately 80 percent of the top pediatric hospitals using Action® brand positioners in their OR and NICUs, Action decided to expand the line with two more head pads and three positioners to protect the smallest of patients. Incrementally different sized products are meaningful to improving the quality of care for this patient population.
LISTED UNDER: Gel PadsHoverMatt Half-Matt
September 5, 2012 4:43 am | HoverTech International | Product Releases | CommentsHoverTech’s HoverMatt® Half-Matt, a shorter version of the original transfer mattress, is ideal for lateral transfers and repositioning in the OR, especially for orthopedics, cystoscopy, labor and delivery and other gynecological or urological procedures. At 45 inches long, the HoverMatt Half-Matt ends right below the buttocks, making it effective but unobtrusive on specialty tables.
LISTED UNDER: Patient Transfer EquipmentAlumi-Hand Hand Positioning
July 27, 2012 4:45 am | Instrument Specialists Inc. | Product Releases | CommentsInstrument Specialists Inc. offers the Alumi-Hand, designed to make hand positioning easy during hand surgeries by keeping a patient’s hand and fingers flat and immobilized while the anti-tilt tab prevents rotation of the arm. Made of pliable aluminum and non-latex foam, the Alumi-Hand is sterile, radiolucent and available in three sizes.
LISTED UNDER: Foam PadsPatient Positioning System
July 20, 2012 4:51 am | Product Releases | CommentsMHP’s Patient Positioning System (PPS) was created with three functions in mind: patient safety, making the placement of the catheter faster, easier and safer and to eliminate the need for the nurse to hold the patient allowing the nurse to focus on more critical required services. The PPS has a small footprint, is mobile, has total locking casters, features a built-in IV pole, storage basket, medical gel for the face and armrests, is C-Arm friendly, easy to clean, has no pinch points and in approximately 20 seconds can safely position a patient weighing up to 650 lbs.
LISTED UNDER: Patient Seating Products
