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2. Hospital bed - Wikipedia

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   In 1874 the mattress company Andrew Wuest and Son, Cincinnati, Ohio, registered a patent for a type of mattress frame with a hinged head that could be elevated, a predecessor of the modern day hospital bed. [4] The modern 3-segment adjustable hospital bed was invented by Willis Dew Gatch (1877-1962), chair of the Department of Surgery at the ...

3. Hill-Rom - Wikipedia

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   In 2018, Hillrom updated its hospital bed model to include EarlySense’s vital-sign bed sensors to monitor patients’ heart and respiratory rates. [8] The built-in sensors sit under the mattress and are not attached to the patient. [8] They check vital signs 100 times a minute and alert nurses to any possible issues. [8]

4. Classification of Chinese hospitals - Wikipedia

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   A tertiary hospital is a comprehensive, referral, general hospitals at the city, provincial or national level with a bed capacity exceeding 500. They are responsible for providing specialist health services, perform a bigger role with regard to medical education and scientific research and they serve as medical hubs providing care to multiple ...

5. Acute care - Wikipedia

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   Hospital-based acute inpatient care typically has the goal of discharging patients as soon as they are deemed healthy and stable. [3] Acute care settings include emergency department, intensive care, coronary care, cardiology, neonatal intensive care, and many general areas where the patient could become acutely unwell and require stabilization ...

6. Roemer's law - Wikipedia

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   An increased number of beds may be due to patient preference for in-patient (rather than outpatient) care in a region." [ 5 ] [ self-published source ] Enoch Powell , the British Minister of Health, propounded a similar proposition, which he called Parkinson's law of hospital beds: "the number of patients always tends to equality with the ...

7. High-dependency unit - Wikipedia

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   Patients may be admitted to an HDU bed because they are at risk of requiring intensive care admission, or as a step-down between intensive care and ward-based care. [ 1 ] In 2000 the UK Department of Health issued the Comprehensive Critical Care report, which set out the number of high dependency ("level 2") beds a hospital should have to ...