FDA Issues Tips for Safer Beds

If you are in the potentially lucrative market of patient bed design/manufacture, you better listen to the FDA, which issued new guidance to reduce patient entrapment:

Key body parts at risk of entrapment are:
– Head
– Neck
– Chest
Potential zones of entrapment in a hospital bed system are:
Zone 1 : Within the rail
Zone 2 : Under the rail, between the rail supports or next to a single rail support
Zone 3 : Between the rail and the mattress
Zone 4 : Between the rail, at the ends of the rail
Zone 5 : Between split bed rails
Zone 6 : Between the end of the rail and the side edge of the head or foot board
Zone 7 : Between the head or foot board and the mattress end

Medgadget.com would like to thank all of its US readers for contributing their tax dollars towards the brilliant FDA release titled “Hospital Bed System Dimensional and Assessment Guidance to Reduce Entrapment.”
(hat tip: KidneyNotes)