Side-proof and anti-slip of nursing beds: the “invisible safety lock” that caregivers must know

At three o’clock in the morning, Aunt Li woke up again, her heart pounding. When I turned my head, half of my wife’s body on the bed was almost in the air! She rushed over to support the old man’s soreness and numb back, and there was a “click” on her waist – she had stayed up for seven years on this frightening night. To be honest, this kind of worrying is really difficult for people who have not experienced it

Don’t underestimate this “slip”

Nursing bed slippage? This is no small matter.The old man’s body was crooked, and he was not far from fallingThat’s what it says in the book. The data from Shanghai University Hospital is even more frightening: when taking care of the elderly at home, more than half of the displacement accidents occur when moving and adjusting posture. You think, the old man’s body is slightly crooked by 15 degrees, and the force of sliding down can be 1.5 times his weight! At this time, if the bed is not strong:•The shoulders and pelvis are twisted•The flesh of the butt was so crushed that it was almost bloodless•The person who took care of it made a slam effort, and his waist could suffer from old sins

“In our department, many family members who take care of the elderly, their own waist is broken, and the intervertebral disc is herniated” Head Nurse Yang sighed in the record book, “There is a girl who has moved her mother back to bed in the middle of the night every day for three years, and now it is her turn to have surgery.”

Antiskid? It depends on two tricks to be stable

If you really want to prevent slipping, you can’t just block it, you have to be smart and cooperate

Mechanical structure is the foundation
In a laboratory in Shenzhen, where assistive devices are researched, the engineer used a skeleton model to tell me a doorway:The kind of bed board that can be folded three times and sink down in the middle。 When the leg is bent at about 30 degrees, the thigh and knee socket form a support point, which can remove most of the force from sliding down. In addition, the two sides of the bed are slightly raised about 5 degrees of non-slip flanging, the old man turns over and rubs to the side, and the skin is not as abrasive as the old-fashioned guardrail, which is said to be less than 70%.

Intelligent response is more intimate
A nursing home in Beijing was equipped with intelligent monitoring and found a pattern: the elderly turned over for about 30 minutes, and their posture was easy to crook. Hey, coincidentally, many good nursing beds are automatically adjusted at this point in time. The director of the nursing department pointed to the screen and showed me: “There is a ‘sensory nerve’ hidden under this mattress, the body is just a little crooked, 3 degrees, and the bed itself knows that it is time to move.”

The anti-slip effect is compared to one another

When it’s easy to slip	Old-fashioned nursing bed	Non-slip upgraded
Sit up at 45° to eat	I slip 6-8cm down	I move up to 1.5cm
Turn 50° to the left	A shoulder can be turned out 10cm	It is crooked 3cm to the sky
Move yourself at night	35% risk of falling out of bed	＜8%

Changing beds, it’s really different

I was particularly impressed by Ms. Zhang’s family. Her father couldn’t move on the right side after the cerebral infarction, and he used to use an ordinary electric bed, and he could obliquely form a “diagonal” when he fell asleep, which scared people to death. On the night of the change to the non-slip model, she was so nervous that she turned on her mobile phone and stared. It turned out that the old man’s body had just tilted to the side of the bed about 15 degrees, and the bed board itself was slightly tilted a little, about 5 degrees, like a pair of invisible hands, gently lifting the person back to the middle of the bed

“Now turn over for my dad,” Ms. Zhang said to me, patting the armrest of the bed, “I feel significantly less energetic, and I have much less strength to resist the decline.” Last winter, I had a two-thirds fewer back injury! She smiled easily at this change

Pick a bed? I’ll teach you three tricks

I have run no less than 200 nursing homes, and I think the key to looking at the anti-slip performance is to try:1Swing your life upwards: Shake the bed to 70 degrees and stare at the old man’s shoulders and buttocks2See if your legs are bent enough: Lower the foot of the bed, bend the leg (-55 degrees), and look at the angle between the calf and the bed, which must be greater than 120 degrees to be comfortable3Try it doesn’t work: Gently push the old man to the side of the bed about 5cm, and see if the bed can react by itself within 20 seconds and “save” the person back

“You have to let the old man lie down and try to feel it” When I trained the family members last week, I always emphasized, “The old man sleeps soundly, and the face is relaxed, which is really safe”

Q&A

Q: How do you know that the nursing bed at home is not slippery?
A: Teach you a stupid way: put a strip of tape on the ground directly opposite the end of the bed, and see how far the old man’s heels are from the tape for three consecutive mornings, and write them down and compare

Q: Does the anti-slip function cost electricity?
A: Don’t worry! That monitoring electricity is similar to your mobile phone standby, and it lasts for one kilowatt-hour a month

Q: Can I use a large one?
A: If you weigh more than 180 pounds, it is best to choose a reinforced hydraulic rod, and make it clear to the manufacturer that you need a 1.5mm thick pipe to carry it

When you tuck the quilt for your family tonight, touch the edge of the bed
The anti-slip system hidden underneath is like the ballast stone of the ship, invisible but stable
Turning it to the old classmate who is picking a bed may save a midnight fright

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