Manual handling risk management: critical care beds and support systems
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Manual handling risk management: critical care beds and support systems

Howard Griffiths Clinical practice tutor, School of Health Science, University of Wales, Swansea
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This article examines the reduction of manual handling risk to nurses through discussion of the technical and ergonomic features of critical care beds and support systems. It describes the features of different types of manual handling equipment, in particular trolleys, beds and patient platform support surfaces.

Nursing Standard. 20, 32, 45-53. doi: 10.7748/ns2006.04.20.32.45.c4126

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t.h.griffiths@swan.ac.uk

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This article has been subject to double blind peer review

Keywords :

Accident prevention - Lifting - Occupational health and safety - Patients: positioning - Risk management

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19 April 2006 / Vol 20 issue 32

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