Protect Your Patients From Injury
Floor Mats Do Reduce Impact Severity: They Work! Colleagues, Protecting patients from injury when they falls requires different interventions than preventing them from a fall. The main intervention to reduce impact when patients fall from be is the Floor Mat...
A First Glimpse of Independence
For patients who have suffered a complete spinal cord injury, like Wesley Tweet, their first glimpse of independence often occurs once they arrive to a specialized rehabilitation facility like Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals in Nebraska. A quadriplegic, Wesley was...
Navigating Life With Limited Mobility
After suffering a complete spinal cord injury, Donna Cadwallader of St. Joseph, Missouri, is learning to navigate life with limited mobility. While rehabilitating at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals in Lincoln, Nebraska, Donna was exposed to the AC 20 Assistive...
Bed Height Must Be Individualized
Low Bed Height is NOT a Universal Fall Precaution Colleagues, I hope that my inaugural resource message last month to re-evaluate your bathroom grab bar placement was helpful to you. I also hope that you shared the research and evidence to your Falls Committee...
Creating a Safe Environment for Toileting
Proper Grab Bar Placement in Bathrooms Reduces Falls Colleagues, I am delighted to launch this first informational message to you on behalf of Curbell Medical, Inc., designed to provide you with fall and fall injury prevention resources. The resources that I am...
Mattress Issues: Cleaning Mattresses Without Premature Chemical Damage
Mattress disinfection is an important part of any hospital’s infection control program. But the harsh chemicals that are used can damage the mattress over time. Follow these tips to get the most out of your stretcher mattresses. 1. FOLLOW THE...
The Importance of Replacing Your Mattresses
Your mattresses get a lot of use and abuse — especially stretcher mattresses that are moved from department to department many times each day. As mattresses get worn out, there may be holes and tears in the fabric that allow blood or other bodily fluids to enter the...
Mattress Issues: Choosing the Right Mattress
Stretcher mattresses can be made out of many different materials, each with different capabilities and price points. Here are four types of mattress cover materials and the positives and negatives for each to help you in deciding which one is right for...
A Bright Idea to Increase Patient Satisfaction: Dimmable Lights
“Patients reported that brighter lighting during daylight hours felt pleasant and healthy, and lower light levels at night (dimmer, but not dark) replaced anxiety with calm and engendered a feeling of security.” * Numerous studies like the one quoted here have shown...
7 Fall Management Precautions Every Nurse Should Take
As designers and manufacturers of innovative medical communication technologies, Curbell understands both the challenges and critical importance of communication between caregivers and patients. Lack of communication can lead to a range of potentially fatal hazards....