Once upon a time …
… there were a nursing bed and a hospital bed, which once offered only lying comfort. Today, they pamper their residents like luxury beds, which are known from wellness hotels.
Until the First World War, the idea existed that a hospital bed should remain unused for a while from a hygiene point of view. But even in the postwar period, the tide turned by the dramatic increase in bed utilization, as Alfons Labisch and Reinhard Spree in 1996 in her book „One patient in a hospital his own bed“ impressively described.
Today, German care and hospital beds meet the highest hygienic standards. They are designed not only to help them sleep, but also to help them get up, to minimize falls while taking into account the right to refrain from detention. Systematic fall prevention plays a key role in geriatric nursing, as almost one third of those over 64 fall at least once a year and this number continues to increase in the case of those still aged. For example, wissner-bosserhoff has developed various solutions to prevent falls in the long term:
• On the one hand, the height of the bed plays a role. This is where beds with a large adjustable height range of 27-80 cm score. With the low-maintenance beds from the sentida range, the company is consistently pursuing measures to protect residents. All sentida low-level beds as well as the hospital bed image 3 are equipped with the intelligent 3-stop strategy. It has a height adjustment of 27 cm for a safe sleeping position, 41 cm for the ergonomic bed exit in chair height and 80 cm for the comfortable and back-friendly care position for the nursing staff.
• Side protection also plays a key role in fall prevention. All nursing beds from wissner-bosserhoff are equipped as standard with fall prevention in the sleeping phase. In the uppermost extension of the bed rail, both sides of the side guard close so closely together that they are as secure as a continuous side rail and go beyond the standard IEC 60601-2-52. The patented SafeFree® side protection follows the recommendation of the expert standard for fall prevention, does not constitute a principle of freedom-free measures in the case of half-sided use according to the classification of the Werdenfelser path and has also proven itself as a stand-up aid and to promote the mobility of the resident.
• In addition, there are intelligent assistance systems today that illuminate the room and literally light the way for the resident. A night light automatic system safely shows the resident the way, even when using the toilet at night. For example, SafeSense® from wissner-bosserhoff is such a revolutionary solution. Especially at night, the bed-exit assistance system can help to reduce the risk of deprivation and is therefore recommended as a freedom-preserving measure.
All this, the sick – and the nurses – have hardly imagined from yesteryear in their wildest dreams.
