Nursing Home and Hospital Beds:

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Background: The use of hospital bed side rails for increased mobility and safety for elderly and high fall risk patients has become a controversial topic. The suggested removal of side rails to prevent entrapment, as recommended by Consumer Federation of America, increases the risk that a patient

Hospitals providing care for the acutely ill en-counter the recurrent problem of having to find in-patient accommodation for patients who require immediate admission. The existence of large wait-ing lists, particularly in surgical specialties, places a further demand on hospital beds. The admission

allows the hospital staff to prognosticate the hospital bed occupancy by simulating different virtual scenarios. Thus, the model may be used to predict short-term future patient movement and therefore aid an optimum decision making concerning the beds re-quirements. An illustrative application

n recent years, there has been emerging concern about declining access to hospital beds

This paper shows how the hospital bed is constructed in different ways through human practice and meaning making as cultural, economic, political and symbolic space. We draw on ethnographic research done in training hospitals in South Africa and in the Netherlands to highlight the dissimilar

Abstract-The paper proposes a novel target following solution for an electric powered hospital bed. First, an improved real-time decoupling multivariable control strategy is introduced to stabilize the overall system during its operation. Environment laser-based data are then collected and pre

An efficient bed allocation management GIS based system tool, eBeds, is being developed within the hospital environment to meet the health industry’s patient management protocols and to address community concerns. Inefficiencies and continuing difficulties in management of available and appropriate

, but falls out of bed or from a patient hoist lift can also trigger a death. As expected, the manner of death was mainly accidental. In about 70 % of cases, mechanical asphyxia (such as smothering and thoraco-abdominal compression) was substantiated as the mechanism of death. A substantial number