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releases on hospital beds. Date:
20 March 2004Subject: Better positioning. Better lying in bed. Decubitus prophylaxis with hospital beds. "More quality could lead to drastic cost reductions in the public health system," said Christel Bienstein, chair of the expert advisory board of the care foundation. As a telling example, Mrs Bienstein quotes the treatment costs for pressure sores, the so-called decubitus ulcer. She said it was a disease that could be avoided. But patients are wrongly positioned in the hospital bed or even on the operating table, although sufficient knowledge and aids are available. read more  Date:
20 March 2004Subject: As much protection as necessary, as much freedom as possible. Optimal protection with hospital beds. Side rails on healthcare beds are important pieces of equipment. They fulfill several tasks. The main function is to safeguard patients who need protection - for example, after a surgery, at night or if patients are (temporarily) mentally confused. But side rails are also indispensable for occupants who desire individual independence. Moreover, they should also give patients a feeling of security by defining the outer limits of their bed. And finally, the use of side rails is important when carrying out nursing procedures at working height. read more  Date:
20 March 2004Subject: New concept for the Völker S960 hospital bed - one basic model in three configurations. "With the new S 960 hospital bed, we have reached our goal," said the manufacturer Völker at the Medica 2003 fair in Düsseldorf. The product is technically perfect. The result of the close cooperation of our own development department, including experts for customer aspects, with external experts and Porsche was now a modular system making it possible to configure Völker hospital beds in the three basic versions, S 960-, S 960-2W and S 960-1, depending on the relevant site and demand...read more  Date:
20 March 2004Subject: What are the costs of hospital beds? Are low-cost beds really good value for money? If investment decisions for new hospital beds are taken with a view of the budget only, the German manufacturer Völker argues, this will often have a very negative, that is a cost-intensive effect, in the course of the whole service life of the beds. An essential aspect that had to be considered with every new purchase were thus add-on and operating costs. This is a truism that everybody has already experienced himself. Not every product that seemed to be a bargain after carrying out a basic price comparison would in fact be able to make good in the long run what it previously promised...read more  Date:
20 March 2004Subject: This is what caregivers want - stability with hospital beds for a safer work with patients. 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....read more  Date:
20 March 2004Subject: Moving patients - better and safer mobilization. The aim of each activating care procedure is the mobility of the patient. All people involved in care know the resistance put up to this effort by patients themselves, by insufficient aids or by the time involved. Especially the patient's own mobility plays an important role, once his or her resources have been revived and the remaining or newly created capabilities for recovery have been made known to him or her by means of nursing procedures.....read more  Date:
20 March 2004Subject: Safety of hospital beds - are electrically operated hospital beds really "electric"? Accidents, especially with "electric" healthcare 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 "electric medical devices" they are subject to the same guidelines and norms. Well, of course, electrically operated hospital beds are just as little "electric" as an "electric" iron, for example. Both devices are 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...read more  Date:
20 March 2004Subject: Hospital beds made in Germany - quality advantage and cost disadvantage? For decades, the proof of origin "Made in Germany" has been standing for exceptional quality - also internationally. Quite automatically, this mark has also the following overtones: Good and expensive. So it's hardly surprising that trade fair visitors walking from stand to stand evaluate, for example, the price of hospital beds on the basis of their first general impression - looking fairly normal, cheap, high-tech appearance, and a lot of technology, expensive, but also: looking different, and moreover, very good: expensive...read more  Date:
20 March 2004Subject: "Health and Design" - the sick room as a health-promoting factor. Patients are more and more turning into customers. He or she places certain expectations on the hospital, and the extent to which they are fulfilled or not determine to a considerable degree his or her satisfaction with the service provided. In this respect, there cannot be determined any differences between patients and other customer groups any more...read more |
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