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This
is what caregivers want: stability with hospital beds for a safer work
with patients.
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Early and regular mobility not only serves as a decubitus, contracture,
pneumonia, constipation and thrombosis prophylaxis, but also to quicken
the appetite and to promote a healthy sleep, but in particular also to
diminish the feeling of being ill and - most importantly - to promote
the patient's self-esteem and independence. With it, all mobility begins in the hospital bed, with the caregiver's physical capabilities consciously being used during interactive movement. Prior to carrying out these measures with the patient lying in bed, caregivers first adjust the bed's lying surface to be at the same height as their pelvis. With a person being 165 cm tall, this requires a height adjustment to at least 90 cm. So the bed has to be raised to its full height. The brakes must be fully applied and locked. In order to provide safety to both caregivers and occupants, the lying surface should then be kept at this working height and as stable as possible during all exercise. It goes without saying that an electrically operated hospital bed can bring to bear its advantages over mechanical models by its push-button height adjustment feature alone allowing the caregiver to stay near the patient during operation. But electrically operated hospital beds, too, differ from each other with regard to essential design features like the height adjustment, for example. Obviously, there is much to be said in favour of hospital beds with lifting jack columns, especially when carrying out nursing procedures on patients lying at working height. In contrast to those designs with scissors mechanisms, they feature a much greater horizontal stability. But, in turn, there are also differences between beds with lifting jack columns. It carries conviction that four lifting jack columns can better manage horizontal and lateral stability than two or three columns. That is why Völker hospital beds are a classic example for a really sturdy hospital bed. One of the most important innovations with Völker hospital beds is the so-called telescopic height adjustment. With the Völker hospital bed, It is often used in such a way that two lifting jack columns each at the head and footend hold a cross-member which, in turn, bears the frame of the lying surface. With it, the lifting jack columns are maintenance-free and integrated into sleeves. Along with the mentioned upper cross-member, into which the entire lifting and drive mechanics of the bed is encapsulated waterproof, and one lower cross-member, these four lifting jack columns produce an extremely torsion-stiff undercarriage which on top of that is light weight as a result of using an aluminium design. The lifting jack columns with Völker hospital beds are manufactured in a three-stage spindle telescopic height adjustment design, with the height itself of course being able to be infinitely adjusted between 39.5 cm and 80 cm. Together with the mattress, this results in a maximum working height of 90 cm to 95 cm. By the way, from the lowest position of the bed, it only takes 25 seconds to raise it to maximum height. Also at the highest position, the frame of the lying surface is always kept sturdy - both horizontally and laterally, even with varying loads which steadily occur while caring for patients lying in bed. With Völker hospital beds, this is further supported by means of a synchronisation control which corrects the slightest directional deviations and sets the telescopic height adjustment back to become absolutely in vertical and horizontal position. Four large casters which have a wide bearing surface and are individually fixed on a central brake contribute to the entire stability during nursing procedures. The extreme stability due to patented design features and the utilization of further features like the infinitely-variable adjustment of lying surface elements make Völker hospital beds an indispensable and safe aid in daily nursing procedures, in active care and in providing individual independence to patients. Press contact: ProSell! Werbeagentur GmbH Leisewitzstraße 39a 30175 Hannover Mrs Katja Linkert Phone: +49 511 / 28 35 7-32 Fax: +49 511 / 28 35 7-18 E-Mail: katja.linkert@prosell-hannover.de |
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