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Benefits of the Morphemat
- (Re)positions patients with less colleagues and without any ergonomic hurdle
- Facilitates to adhere to the recommendation to reposition patient every 2 - 4 hours
- Enables to reposition patients in less than a minute
- Saves time of the staff
- Enable stable positioning, also when changing the angle of bed head and bed end
- Relieves back strain by avoiding manual lifting through compressed air technology
Research Background
“There is broad consensus that all intensive care patients should be moved regularly from their back to their sides, and two hourly positioning has been suggested as a routine standard of care.”
Goldhil 2007
“Repositioning supine patients is most frequent patient handling and is associated with high rates of musculoskeletal disorders”
Wiggermann 2020;
Schoenfisch 2019
“Routine patient positioning in the ICU prophylactically promotes comfort, prevents pressure ulcer formation and may reduce the incidence of deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary emboli, atelectasis and pneumonia. Routine positioning usually involves moving the patient between right and left lateral positions.”
Hewitt 2018
“In intensive care units, compliance to turning protocols ranges from 38 to 51%. Potential explanations for this include sub-optimal caregiver staffing ratios.”
Pick ham 2016
References
1. Nam Ho Do et al, Effects of a continuous lateral turning device on pressure relief (2016)
2. Sousa I et al, Positioning immobile critically ill patients who are at risk of pressure injuries using a purpose-designed positioning device and usual care equipment: An observational feasibility study (2020)
3. Goldhill DR et al, A prospective observational study of ICU patient position and frequency of turning, Anaesthesia (2008)
What our clients say about us
Johan Jespers
Nurse Intensive Care Unit
Team Intensive Care
AZ St-Maarten Belgium
OR Team
UZ Leuven (Belgium)
Neurosurgeon
UZ Gent (Belgium)
Prof Robert Pflugmacher,
Universitätsklinikum Bonn (Germany)
Dr. F. van Eijs, M.D, Ph.D.
Anesthetist, ETZ The Netherlands
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