Bed for bed patients

A patient who is prescribed a prolonged bed rest should not lie on the couch or sofa. Today, there are a sufficient number of manufacturers offering medical equipment for bedridden patients. It is not only more convenient for patients, but also more hygienic and better adapted to various maintenance activities.

Bed for recumbent patients must meet certain requirements. The sleeping place must have a height of at least sixty to seventy centimeters from the mattress to the floor. Bed for recumbent patients, usually equipped with wheels to ensure ease of movement. In addition, the foot and the head end are movable. This equipment for bed patients often undergoes sanitation. To facilitate this procedure, a metal enamel case is used. Bed for recumbent patients should be equipped with side handrails, which, when perestilanii fall. In addition, these elements provide safety, prevent the patient from falling, and also serve as a support during the movement and rising.

To care for a sick house, an ordinary bed can be converted into a bed for bedridden patients. To increase its height, the legs can be put on rubber covers and put on bricks or pads. If the patient sometimes gets out of bed, then the distance from the mattress to the floor should be forty-five to fifty centimeters. Thus, it provides the greatest comfort when getting up and laying on the bed. If the patient uses a wheelchair, then she should be at the same level with him.

Place the bed in the room so that access to the patient from all sides is ensured. This will facilitate care and allow you to easily change the position of the patient's body. In the case where the bed is close to the wall, the patient is almost always on one side. This contributes to the development of unilateral puffiness, pressure sores, pneumonia due to insufficient ventilation of one lung.

With respect to the window, the bed should be positioned in such a way that the patient does not interfere with the bright light during daytime sleep. It is best to put it sideways to the window.

To care for a sick bed must be equipped with additional devices. These auxiliary components can reduce the burden on individual parts of the patient's body. So, the support frame is used to lift the upper part of the patient's torso during feeding, to ease the condition during dyspnoea or to receive guests. A headrest with a variable angle or an inverted chair can be used as this support frame.

To activate the strength of the patient and to facilitate his elevation, a bed rope is used. On the rope should be knots to prevent slipping hands.

To relax the muscles is used popliteal roller. You can make it by rolling down a blanket.

In order to prevent the patient from sliding down to the foot of the bed, a footrest is used . You can use it as a box. Also, special stands are sold. It should be noted that the use of such a "support" can prevent the development of "horse foot".

In order to release the body of a bed-patient from the pressure of the blanket, a hinged wire frame is used. The blanket is tucked behind the bars of the stand, thus avoiding the loss of heat.

To support the head, you can use the suboccipital roller. However, its continued use causes the risk of damage in the cervical region.

In view of the fact that the patient is in bed for a long time, great attention should be paid to the comfort and cleanliness of the bed.