How to choose a medical functional bed?
If the patient suffers from dementia, then he has to stay in bed for a long time. Many other diseases require long-term treatment and subsequent rehabilitation of the patient. How to facilitate care and provide a person a comfortable stay at home?
It is important to choose not an ordinary home bed, but a special functional medical bed for bed patients. It has certain features in the design that allow medical personnel or relatives to provide proper care. The model makes it easier for the patient to recover, helps to take comfortable and physiologically correct positions.
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Criterias of choice
The modern bed for lying down is selected only on the basis of necessary devices and functions. Before buying it is important to consider the following parameters:
- Dimensional characteristics. Functional bed should give enough space for a coup, finding a person on the surface. Around the product is important to leave room for the free movement of staff and relatives. The patient needs to leave space on all sides. Bed dimensions should not exceed the size of the doorway, if there is a need to periodically move the bed to other rooms.
- Medical beds for bedridden patients are made of high-quality materials, but damage can occur during use and movement. Additional protection in the form of corner chippers made of polymer will prolong the life of the bed.
- The presence of wheels around the perimeter is necessary for easy movement. Such beds are often placed in medical institutions, where they are always monitored and in the event of an attack, the patient is given emergency help in another department or transported for surgery. Such beds should have an automatic brake that will lock the bed when stopped. Wheels made of gray rubber will not leave marks on the floor surface.
- Functional bed with many sections. The patient is selected the number of sections individually, as they depend on the availability of special procedures. Sections on the bed are regulated in various ways: screw, comb, electric.
Screw requires the application of force and a good knowledge of all the functional features of the bed, devices.
A comb bed for bed patients is not very comfortable, but is included in the budget price category.
Electric has a high cost, is the most convenient to use. Using the console, the patient is turned on to raise the back, lower the height, raise the section.
Availability of additional devices for bed patients. Usually purchased separately from the set, this includes rods, fixing the hand supports, special medical mattresses (they allow you to quickly clean up after the person and prevent bedsores from occurring), removable backs, a drip stand, side rails (prevent from falling), tables to be placed next to beds bedridden patients.
What are the sections?
Adjustable sections allow you to change the slope, take the position of George Fowler (half-sitting position), etc. The two-section model corrects only the head and foot section. The three-sectional affects the hip part. Four-section additionally fixes the position of the intermediate department.
A change in inclination and a sitting position can have a positive effect on bed patients who are still unable to move independently. Thus, the pressure and stagnation in the lung area gradually decreases, the tension of the abdominal muscles decreases, and a comfortable state of the body is formed.
In general, the conclusion follows that it is best to take functional beds with rubber wheels and self-regulation, with an automatic brake and additional elements to ensure a comfortable stay in a lying or sitting position. The presence of an anatomical skeleton and several sections for regulation are considered useful.
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