Reduce Nurse Injuries from Repositioning with Air Transfer Systems
Are you a healthcare facility or hospital caring for patients that are total care or dependent patients that require extensive boosting turning and transferring? Are nursing and hospital staff workers continuing to be injured from patient handling tasks with no end in sight? Now is the time to make a change to dramatically reduce nurse injuries risks using the SPH Medical Air Transfer and Positioning System. SPH Medical, a global...
Top 10 Questions about Single Patient Use Air Mattress
Across the globe, the SPH Medical's Air Transfer System (ATS) keeps patients and caregivers safe. We provide a full range of widths and lengths to suit your hospital's safety program with the highest quality control, backed by a manufacturer's warranty and safe patient handling education. Performing patient transfers, repositioning up in bed, turning from one position to another is a daily task for nurses. Even though it is routine and...
How to Improve Staff Safety During Epidurals and Spinal Blocks
When most people think about the effectiveness of modern healthcare, they think about innovative robotic surgeries or new medications. While these advancements certainly are relevant, they are not the only advancements that improve patient outcomes and increase staff safety during epidurals or procedures. One of the most recent innovations is an epidural positioning device. Known more commonly as an EPD, this device is designed to provide better support for patients during...
Reduce Risk of Injury and Infections with Air Transfer Technology
Implementing Air Transfer Technology Reduces the Risk of Infections and Staff Injury in Hospitals Hospitals are typically viewed as place where state of the art healthcare services are provided. However hospitals today are still not the safest places to work. Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic nurses and healthcare workers have been exposed to workplace injuries from manually lifting, moving and transferring patients. Infection prevention was always a top concern as...
Staff Safety During Epidurals and Spinal Blocks
No Room for Error When It Comes To Staff Safety It’s hard to imagine health care without anesthesia or analgesia. Even after 175 years, they're a medical marvel that no one takes for granted. Technology and innovation may evolve at lightning speed, but there are still no shortcuts during epidurals and spinal blocks. Whenever anesthetists place a needle in a patient, they summon all their knowledge, training, skill, experience and powers...
Mobilize Patients Early and Often
The SPH Medical RoWalker Helping Mobilize Patients Studies show the efficacy of mobilize patients early, and its benefits contribute significantly to patient health. Everyone on a health care team shares an interprofessional responsibility to provide treatment. However, the task of delivering ambulatory care typically rests with nurses who spend more time with patients than other health care team members. The SPH Medical RoWalker assists in providing the service that patients require,...
Safe Patient Mobility Today
Today, Safe Patient Mobility means something different to every department in the hospital. But in general it means that we need to understand how patients move and how to safely handle them based upon their functional abilities. An important component is choosing the right assistive solution for each patient. There are a couple of tools now available that help assess a patient's functional ability and then translate the results of...
Injury Prevention During Epidurals
Nurse managers don't typically think of injury prevention during epidurals being a major issue. But epidurals are about pain relief so why are nurses at risk of injury? This article will review the Epidural placement procedure, proper patient positioning for optimal patient outcomes and Safe Patient Handling solutions to reduce the risk of injury for the nurses that support this procedure. What is an Epidural? This procedure involves injecting a patient with epidural...
Back Injury Prevention for Nurses
There is an injury crisis going on in the healthcare industry. Nurses are suffering injuries at an alarming rate while performing lateral transfer, repositioning patients in their beds, and other common tasks. Many of the approximately 3 million Registered Nurses working in the US face daily hazards that put them at risk. A Veterans Health Administration study in 2000 revealed nurses were injured on average six times more often than...
N95 Respirators for Healthcare
The world has been in transition since the spread of the Coronavirus, also known as Covid-19. The year 2020 marked a shift in societal standards, behavior, interactions, and almost a total disruption in how the average person views infection prevention. Less than two years later, we are still being reminded by the CDC and healthcare leaders that mask use contributes to individual personal safety and offers significant defense against the...