Monitored Alarm Systems

Pressure ulcers, better known as bedsores, are a frequent and potentially serious problems for bedridden hospital patients. Employees are often required, patients are regularly turn over in their beds, as the wounds, the result of too much prolonged pressure on the skin, caused by lying on one spot too long. Turning the patient (especially the larger ones) can only work physically hard, but some facilities plus 't always won enough staff on hand to do the rotation as often as necessary. Swiss businessman Michael Sauter thought the situation needed addressing, so he invented a bed that rotates the patient ... Continue Reading 'Intelligent bed "in order to prevent bedsores

Section: Health and wellbeing

Tags: Bed, Empa, Ergonomic

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