What are the different types of Hospital Beds?


Hospital beds are the most important part of the hospital furniture and there are different types of beds that are used in a medical facility. The type of bed basically depends upon the ailment a patient is suffering as well purpose of the treatment. The ones you witness while visiting at the hospital is not the only one that is used throughout the facility. Here are some commonly used beds in the medical world:
1.      Gatch Bed
These beds are mostly found in nursing homes and older and/or remote areas that are economically-challenged that utilize these beds because of their lack of need for electricity
2.      Electric Bed
Electric bed is the basic modern types which are mostly seen in the city hospitals or major town hospitals. It usually has the options of lowering and raising the bed which is done through buttons set on the side rails.
3.      Stretchers
The beds you must have noticed in the emergency room unit are called stretchers. They are designed for mobility so that the patients can be easily transferred from house to ambulance to the operating room to the ER unit because of special features, such as folding legs.
4.      Low beds
The Low beds are specifically designed by the hospital bed manufacturers for those patients who are liable to fall off beds and cause injury, despite the restraint of the side rails. The height of such beds a set from about eight inches to less than two feet off the ground at the highest setting.
5.      Low air loss bed
These beds have special cushions and a system designed to blow air into sacs within the mattress. They are specially designed for burn patients and patients with skin grafts by keeping them cool and dry.
6.      Circo-electric bed
This kind of beds enables can be rotated inside circular bars that look like a giant hamster treadmill. These beds used for patients in traction and severe skin conditions.
7.      Clinitron bed

This one is  bit similar to both the low air loss bed as well as the circo-electric bed and it is designed for patients with pressure ulcers, flaps, grafts, burns or skin disorders.

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