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A patient lift (patient hoist, jack hoist, Hoyer lift, or hydraulic lift) may be either a sling lift or a sit-to-stand lift.This is an assistive device that allows patients in hospitals and nursing homes and people receiving home health care to be transferred between a bed and a chair or other similar resting places, by the use of electrical or hydraulic power.
Medical restraints in psychiatric hospitals in Japan are sometimes kept on patients for weeks and months, [4] and they are thought to have caused several deaths due to deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism. [5] [6] More information about Japanese use of restraints is described in the page on physical restraints.
An emergency medical technician (often, more simply, EMT) is a medical professional that provides emergency medical services. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] EMTs are most commonly found serving on ambulances and in fire departments in the US and Canada, as full-time and some part-time departments require their firefighters to at least be EMT certified.
CareFlite began operations in 1979. It originated with one helicopter, a Bell 206L, which was shared between Methodist Dallas Medical Center and Harris Methodist Fort Worth Hospital. It is the oldest joint-use air medical program in the United States. [3] CareFlite augmented their air ambulance service with ground operations in 1981. [2]
Medical evacuation, often shortened to medevac [1] or medivac, [1] is the timely and efficient movement and en route care provided by medical personnel to patients requiring evacuation or transport using medically equipped air ambulances, helicopters and other means of emergency transport including ground ambulance and maritime transfers.
Every medical treatment facility should have policies and processes on equipment control and asset management. Equipment control and asset management involves the management of medical devices within a facility and may be supported by automated information systems (e.g., enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are often found in U.S. hospitals, and the U.S. military health system uses an ...
Surgery in progress with a surgeon, surgeon's assistant and a surgical technologist visible; the anesthesia provider is just visible behind the surgical drape
A run-away line, for example, might injure the operator or others in the way of the moving equipment, and a counterweight dropped from the grid could kill or injure a person standing below. Therefore, to ensure the safety of the workers and the performers on stage, certain safety guidelines have been implemented to the fly crew during the ...