Expert Healthcare Resources
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Bed Rails and Bed Accessories: How to Choose Them Safely
A bed rail looks like the simplest item in a patient room. It is also the one with the most rules attached, because a rail that does not match the...
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Clinical Care Recliners: Which Chair for Which Job
Search for a clinical care recliner and you get two quite different products sharing a category. One is a geri chair, a wheeled reclining chair that gets a patient out of...
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Hospital & Healthcare Furniture: Planning a Complete Setup
People rarely buy hospital furniture one item at a time by choice. They buy a bed because someone is being discharged, then discover the mattress that came with it is not...
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Hospital Beds: How to Choose the Right One
Almost nobody plans to buy a hospital bed. It becomes necessary suddenly, usually because someone is coming home from hospital and their own bed will no longer work, or because a...
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How to Assemble a Hospital Bed Safely
A hospital bed usually arrives in three or four heavy boxes on a day when nobody has time for it. Someone is being discharged tomorrow, the delivery driver has left...
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Bariatric Hospital Beds: Capacity, Width and Getting It Through the Door
A bariatric hospital bed is usually specified in a hurry, under pressure, by someone who has never bought one before. A hospital is discharging a patient who cannot go home to...
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Semi-Electric or Full Electric Hospital Bed? What Actually Changes
This is the first question almost every hospital bed buyer faces, and the terminology does a poor job of explaining itself. Semi-electric sounds like a compromise. Full electric sounds like the...
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Pressure Injury Prevention & Support Surfaces: Where to Start
Most people arrive at this subject suddenly. A parent is discharged from hospital with reduced mobility. A spouse's condition progresses. A facility resident develops a wound that was not there...
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Bariatric Mattresses: How to Match Capacity, Width and Bed Frame
Sizing a bariatric mattress is not the same exercise as buying a standard one, and the difference trips up more buyers than it should. On a standard 36-inch surface you pick...
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Which Mattress for Which Pressure Injury Stage?
The most common question in support surface selection is also the hardest to answer from a product page: which mattress is right for the stage of injury in front of you....
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Protekt Aire Mattress Systems: Which Model Does What
Search for a Protekt Aire mattress system and you will find a range that runs from a 5-inch overlay to a 750 lb bariatric system to a full lateral rotation surface...
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Alternating Pressure, Low Air Loss, or Lateral Rotation? Choosing a Therapeutic Mattress
Three technologies, three different problems, and product listings that rarely explain the difference. A caregiver searching for a therapeutic mattress after a hospital discharge finds units labeled alternating pressure, low air...
