Tilting bed
The client requires her daughter’s profiling bed to be kept flat when the head end is raised while she is continuously enterally fed over a 12 hour period. Keeping her head higher than her feet will enable her to be fed safely to avoid aspiration. This is a standard feature on many such beds, but not this one.
The solution
The bed’s motorised mechanism allows the head of the bed to be raised, but the rest of the bed remains horizontal. A wooden board was placed between the mattress and bed base in such a way that one end of the board is raised by the bed’s own mechanism while keeping the mattress flat.
Wooden board |
Bed head raised, showing the board |
The benefit
The mattress can be flat but sloping to enable safe feeding of the user.
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