patients, says Ms. Getlan. For facilities that have a consistently heav-
ier patient demographic — or a spread-out floor plan — you may turn
to models that have auto-drive, a feature that manufacturers tout as
making it possible for a single nurse to move a 500-pound patient
from one room to the next with a push of a button.
You also want to look at the width of the stretcher-chair's mattress to
ensure that it's wide enough to easily place patients and position their
arms, while being small enough to navigate in and out of your ORs,
says Cindy Beauvais, RN, BSN, MBA, CAPA, clinical director of the
Georgia Eye Institute Surgery Center in Savannah. "With the way the
population is getting larger, the chairs are sometimes too narrow or
short," she says. "It's harder for bigger patients to get comfortable."
While most standard chairs come with 24-inch widths, some manufac-
Nice Moves.
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featuring powered positioning enable
patients to move from admission to
procedure to discharge on one device.
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For more information, please visit
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