Bed Positioning Aids

The use of Ergonomic Products and tools can greatly reduce the risk of injury to caregivers while performing their daily patient care routines. Through the use of proper methods for repositioning a patient in their bed, healthcare facility staff and employees provide safety to themselves and their patients by following ergonomic guidelines as set forth by their respective facility. In recent years, more and more emphasis has been placed on the administration and facilities to implement injury prevention processes and devices in an effort to ensure their staff is armed with necessary tools for providing harmless care giving.

	ErgoSlide® 2100 - Slide Tubes Easily reposition patients while reducing stress on the spinal cord.
	ErgoSheet 2200 - Bed Slide Sheets Less friction, better utility. The Bed Slide Sheet allows residents to be repositioned in bed while protecting caregivers from injury.

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"In expanding our Safe Resident Handling initiative to include bed repositioning, a problematic area which mechanical lifts don't address, we chose and incorporated the ErgoSafe ErgoSlides® repositioning tubes into our program. In addition to significantly reducing risk factors and injuries associated with bed repositioning, some of our centers have also begun to report reductions and/or improvement in bed sores with the use of the Ergoslides®. The Ergoslides® are durable, inexpensive and widely" — Mark T. Santoleri, Corporate Director, Safety and Loss Control, Genesis HealthCare Corporation