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S 960-2 Model S 961-2W Model S 961-1
Volker Healthcare are credited with PASA approval to supply beds to the NHS. |
Benefit:
"Electrical Safety". Accidents,
especially with "electrical" hospital beds, have brought one of the most
important aids - also within a hospital - under criticism. Because all
electrically operated beds are basically designed in a similar way and
as "medical electrical devices" they are subject to the same guidelines
and norms. Well, of course, electrically operated hospital beds are just
as little "electrical" as an "electrical" iron, for example. Both devices
are merely electrically operated. In order to ensure electrical safety,
however, there is a much more comprehensive package of measures for hospital
beds for which the manufacturer has to take the responsibility. When these
safety measures are more or less comprehensive from hospital bed to hospital
bed and may vary in addition, the reason for this is that norms and guidelines
leave it up to manufacturers to carry out a risk assessment. So it is
up to manufacturer whether safety measures are built into his appliances
which only just comply with minimum legal requirements or if a whole package
of safety devices is used in order to really cover all possible cases.
Both extremes fulfill the prerequisites for CE conformity. Bust just as
with a basic car model complying with all standard requirements and optional
extras like ABS or airbags making it safer, however, a hospital bed in
the same way is getting safer with each sensible safety measure that is
used in addition. The fact that a higher price has to be paid for more
safety is a matter of personal preferences when buying a car, but with
regard to investments into hospital beds it is a matter of responsibility
towards patients being cared for. Well, the advantages of electrically operated hospital beds are beyond dispute. The advantages in terms of individual independence for patients are obvious. In addition, assistance to caregivers is offered by means of adjustment options that can be operated by pressing a button on the so-called caregiver keyboard. But how to check the safety of electrically operated hospital beds, then? The best way is to carry out comprehensive manufacturer interviews: Are beds really designed in such a way that no danger may occur in all probability and when they are treated in due care? And which protective measures are concerned here? The Völker S 960-1 hospital bed is equipped with 12 protective measures that are synchronized in such a way that if one fails - which under normal circumstances is virtually impossible - then another protective measure kicks in. |
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