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What is the history of hospital beds?
Beds with adjustable side rails first appeared in Britain some time between 1815 and 1825. In 1874 the mattress company Andrew Wuest and Son, Cincinnati, Ohio, registered a patent for a type of mattress frame with a hinged head that could be elevated, a predecessor of the modern day hos...Read more -
What is the features of modern hospital beds?
Wheels Wheels enable easy movement of the bed, either within parts of the facility in which they are located, or within the room. Sometimes movement of the bed a few inches to a few feet may be necessary in patient care. Wheels are lockable. For safety, wheels can be locked when transferring the ...Read more -
Hospital Stretcher
A stretcher, litter, or pram is an apparatus used for moving patients who require medical care. A basic type (cot or litter) must be carried by two or more people. A wheeled stretcher (known as a gurney, trolley, bed or cart) is often equipped with variable height fr...Read more -
What is the Mobile Hospital?
A mobile hospital is a medical center or a small hospital with full medical equipment that can be moved and settled in a new place and situation swiftly. So it can provide medical services to patients or wounded persons in critical conditions such as war or natural disast...Read more -
Mobile Hospitals or Field Hospitals
The primary platform of the mobile hospitals is on semi-trailers, trucks, buses or ambulances which all of them can move on the roads. However, the main structure of a field hospital is tent and container. Tents and all necessary medical equipment will be placed in containers and finally transpor...Read more -
Field Hospital
The surgical, evacuation or field hospitals would remain many miles in the rear, and the divisional clearing stations were never intended to provide emergency life-saving surgery. With the Army’s larger medical units unable to assume their traditional role in support of the front line combat unit...Read more -
Wheeled stretchers
For ambulances, a collapsible wheeled stretcher, or gurney, is a type of stretcher on a variable-height wheeled frame. Normally, an integral lug on the stretcher locks into a sprung latch within the ambulance in order to prevent movement during transport, often referred to as ...Read more -
Nursing Care Bed
A nursing care bed (also nursing bed or care bed) is a bed that has been adapted to the particular needs of people who are ill or disabled. Nursing care beds are used in private home care as well as in inpatient care (retirement and nursing homes). Typical chara...Read more -
What are the special nursing care beds?
Bed-In-Bed Bed-in-bed systems offer the option to retrofit the functionality of a nursing care bed into a conventional bed frame. A bed-in-bed system provides an electronically adjustable lying surface, which can be fitted into an existing bed frame replacing the conventional slatted f...Read more -
What are the special nursing care beds?
Hospital Bed Hospital beds provide all of the basic functions of a nursing care bed. However, hospitals have stricter requirements regarding hygiene as well as stability and longevity when it comes to beds. Hospital beds are also often equipped with special features (e.g. hol...Read more -
What are the special nursing care beds?
Lie-Low Bed This version of the nursing care bed allows the lying surface to be lowered close to the floor to prevent injury from falls. The lowest bed height in the sleeping position, usually about 25 cm above floor level, combined with a roll-down matt that can be placed at the side of th...Read more -
What are the special nursing care beds?
Ultra-Low Bed / Floor Bed This is a further adaptation of the lie-low bed, with a lying surface that can be lowered to less than 10 cm above floor level, which ensures that the risk of injury is minimised if the resident falls out of the bed, even without a roll-down matt. In order to maint...Read more