Over of Medical Equipment Distribution, Sourcing, and Refurbishing DRE is a leading supply company for new, used, and refurbished anesthesia machines, surgical tables, electrosurgical equipment, patient monitors, surgery lights, hospital equipment, surgical equipment, emergency medical equipment and a variety of used medical equipment. Many items are in stock and ready to ship. Learn more about DRE Sell us your equipment DRE Wins Exclusive Export Achievement Award for Africa Reduce Medical Equipment Turnaround Time with Depot Repair from DRE Find Premium Medical Equipment Options at AAD 2017 Save on Oral Surgery Equipment with DRE at the ADSA 2017 Las Vegas Meeting Anesthesia Machine Refurbishing Process DRE Milano E20 Power Procedure ChairAir Hospital Beds are carefully designed for greater comfort and enhanced circulation. These medical air mattresses also play a pivotal role in preventing -- or treating -- serious ailments related to extended bed rest, such as pressure sores and skin shearing.
When selecting an Air Hospital Bed from Vitality Medical, consider:The comprehensively equipped Air Hospital Beds sold by Vitality Medical provide caregivers with consistency and support positive patient outcomes. Hospital Air Mattresses can be a vital tool used by nursing staff, enabling them to help identify patients at risk and gauge the risk's severity by recognizing the six risk factors involved in preventive care. In addition to these benefits, those sleeping on Alternating Pressure Mattresses will wake refreshed. This is because the continually changing air pressure eliminates tossing and turning while keeping blood and fluid flowing for enhanced circulation. Turning: Many models utilize air chambers and/or cylinders to laterally turn an occupant. This helps prevent or treat bedsores by taking pressue off of delicate/injured skin. Comfort is also increased through greater circulation and mucosal drainage. Select models, like Drive Medical's 10 Inch Lateral Rotation Mattress with on Demand Low Air Loss, can laterally transfer occupants from their backs to their sides by up to 40 degrees.
Size: Medical Air Mattresses are right-sized for hospital bed frames, ensuring comfort and safety. Sizes vary from standard models that are 75 inches long x 32 inches wide, to extended or bariatric models that are up to 80 inches long and 42 inches wide, such as Drive Medical's Med-Aire PLUS Bariatric Alternating Pressure Low Air Loss Mattress System bed. Skin health: In addition to turning, Hospital Air Mattresses also have elements that promote skin health. These include anti-shearing zones among the tops and bottom ends of the mattress that guard sensitive scapulas and heels from unnecessary friction. These zones are found in beds such as Span America's PressureGuard Turn Select Air Mattress System. Drive Medical's Mattress System with Pulsation True Low Air Loss features exclusive Pulsate Mode technology. This automatically reduces air flow every 30 seconds, getting blood flowing and reducing pressure to prevent bedsores formation. Safety: Several Air Mattresses have features, such as a static perimeter, that prevents entrapment between a mattress and bed rails.
These include Med-Aire's PLUS DP Defined Perimeter Alternating Pressure Air Mattress Overlay Low Air Loss System 36 x 80 x 8. Transfer Capability: If you are a caregiver, consider a medical air mattress with a transfer mode that automatically inflates or deflates as needed to assist with daily activities. These models include the PressureGuard APM2 Mattress. For additional peace of mind, select units remain inflated during power outages to keep occupants supported. These include Invacare's microAIR MA90 Alternating Pressure Lateral Rotation Mattress. Budget: Even the most budget-friendly hospital air beds sold by Vitality Medical can positively impact occupant wellness. Invacare's value-packed ProBasics SatinAir APM Low Air Loss Mattress, for example, includes the essentials like laser-cut vents that minimize air buildup and low air loss for proper pressure ulcer (bedsore) treatment and prevention. If outfitting multiple beds or watching a budget closely, consider an overlay for traditional innerspring mattreses.
These overlays, such as Invacare's CareGuard Alternating Pressure Pump and Pad, feature basic air pressure cells for patients at risk of developing pressure ulcers. Vitality Medical also carries pumps and bed inflators.Sorry, this part of the web site is not available in your country. DoneDeal is a web site for people in Ireland and Northern Ireland. safety reasons, and to avoid confusion, we do not allow access from other countries. If you want to contact a user about their ad, please call them instead. You find their phone number in the ad. If you are in Ireland or Northern Ireland, please send an email to support@donedeal.ie with the following information: We will use the information to update our security filter. Thank you for using DoneDeal.ieClean Sweep Live Auction 2-Day event on March 23rd & 24th Sort Listings by Country - Choice re-set at 24:00 hours New York City time: To begin: click on a continent. Choose a country's flag.
BE SURE TO CLICK 'Save'. Current listings from that country will be displayed first. If there are no current listings, the normal listings will appear. Listing will be in English. To change or remove your default country, click on the flag icon (top-left corner of page).This section is concerned with hospital beds, also known as care beds or nursing beds, designed for individuals with special needs. A proper assessment by a suitably qualified professional is important, in order to make sure that the correct piece of equipment is chosen. The current safety standard for hospital beds is BS EN 60601-2-52, which came into force on 1st April 2013. Click the links below to go straight to more information on: Beds that help you sit or stand Bed rails or Cot sides for hospital beds Profiling hospital beds which are electrically adjusted enable the user’s position to be changed without strain for anyone involved. The most common profiling beds are three and four part.
Either of these will allow the backrest / pillow area of the bed to be raised, enabling the user to be more upright, while also lifting an area under the knees, to stop the user slipping down in the bed. A four part bed can be more comfortable, as it keeps the bottom horizontal while raising the knees. Two part beds just have a rising headrest area, while five part profiling beds offer more variability in the head / back support area. There are considerable advantages to a profiling system: • by changing position without manual involvement, the risk of injury to the carer is eliminated, and the independence and dignity of the user are maintained. • it may make it possible for someone to get out of bed unaided, if they can raise themselves into a sitting position first. • respiratory and circulatory difficulties can be eased. • it makes using a hoist easier. • most profiling beds also have a height adjustment, so the carer can work at a safe height when giving treatments, etc.
Mattresses for use on profiling beds should have the same number of sections as the bed. There are foam and sprung versions available. For anyone who has limited mobility and spends a great deal of time in bed, a compatible pressure relief mattress should be chosen. For patients who are liable to fall or climb out of bed and hurt themselves, an ultra-low hospital bed is ideal. Until recently, many vulnerable patients were nursed on floor mattresses, a practice that is clearly not suitable for reasons of hygiene, dignity and carer health. The options now available include straightforward low level beds, designed to accommodate a mobile hoist (an important consideration in the selection of any care bed), as well as ultra-low electrically powered profiling beds, which offer all the advantages described above, including the ability for the carer to work at a height which is safe and convenient for them, before returning their patient to a much lower level. For extra security, safety rails may be used (see below) and / or a thick supportive mat be placed next to the bed, to cushion any fall.
Care must be taken in this case, to ensure that the patient cannot become entrapped between the bed and the mat. Designed by a team led by Bruce Archer from the Royal College of Art in the 1960s, The King’s Fund Bed set the standard for hospital beds, with its tilting and height adjustment mechanisms. It is still apparently used in 85% of hospitals. It is, however, rather large and difficult to manoeuvre, and crucially, the adjustments are manual, making them hard work for care staff. Increasingly, the King’s Fund Bed is being phased out in favour of more user-friendly and responsive powered adjustable beds. For anyone who cannot alter their position independently, a postural management programme can help to counteract the tendancy to develop an asymmetric posture. At night, positioning systems can carry on the work undertaken with specialist seating systems during the day. Systems are available to support users lying on their side, or in a prone or supine position.
Depending on the type chosen, the supports can be used with a profiling bed, and laid flat when required, to make transferring in and out of the bed easier. Rotating chair beds are designed to help people who are weight-bearing, but unable to get into and out of bed unassisted. They can have a dramatic effect on independence, removing the need to depend on others for getting up and going to bed. Compared to alternative solutions such as leg-lifters, hoists, or extensive care assistance, rotating chair beds offer a comfortable, simple means of transferring to and from bed, preserving dignity at the same time as improving mobility. While bed rest is good for recuperation, it has also been realized that patients need to be assisted to become active as early as possible. During the recovery period the patient is dependent on their own strength in combination with the help of staff to be mobilized. However, during the early stages of healing and mobilization, when the patient is still very weak, the strain on care staff can be an occupational hazard.
The Vertica bed, as shown here, is an effective way to mobilize patients safely, and support staff who have this responsibility: it has been precisely engineered to meet the needs of both staff and patients. For largely immobile clients, who are at high risk of developing pressure sores, or who already have them, a pressure relief system must be integrated with any other features required of the bed. Dynamic alternating systems consist of a mattress or overlay which is made up of individuals cells which are continuously inflated and deflated by an electrically-powered pump, so that pressure areas are regularly varied, whilst maintaining comfortable support. The mattress cover is very smooth and vapour permeable, to prevent friction, shearing (pulling) of the skin and maceration (where the skin remains damp), all of which encourage the formation of sores, and slow their healing. This type of mattress is sometimes also combined with a lateral turning motion: the bed’s occupant is automatically turned from one side to the other at pre-programmed intervals.
This feature can help minimise the work of care staff in manually turning immobile patients, and it does relieve pressure, but it is not a complete solution for everybody: for example, limbs may need repositioning manually, for comfort. There are also mattresses made from adjustable air-filled cells which are not powered. These are adjusted manually, using a pump, and cushion the user comfortably with pressure evenly distributed, though they will not alternate pressure areas as the automatic system does. They are cost-effective and do not require a power source. A low maintenance approach to pressure care comes in the form of mattresses and overlays made from high tech foam. The foam maintains a low temperature (which is important as raised skin temperature is another indicator for development of pressure sores), and distributes weight evenly across the supported surface. There is often a cut surface, to improve conformity to the user’s contours, and airflow, which again helps with preventing heat build-up.
Visco memory foam, which gently moulds to the shape of the user, may also be used, and many of these mattresses are made up of two or more layers of different materials, each of which contributes its own qualities. There may also be gel- or air-filled cells within the mattress. Sectional mattresses and overlays are available to go with profiling beds. There is more on pressure relief here. Safety rails, or cot-sides, as they are also called, may be helpful to protect people from accidentally falling out of bed, but it is important that they fit properly with the bed and mattress they are used with, and that they don’t provide extra hazards, such as gaps where the user could become trapped, or impermeable surface that could cause suffocation. If an overlay is used on top of the mattress, standard bed rails may then be too low to do their job. Soft, bumper-style bed surrounds can provide all-round protection for anyone at risk of falling, and eliminate the risks of entrapment and suffocation at the same time.