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Harrisburg, PA 17120

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Hospital Bed Safety

	While bed rails have their benefits, their use or misuse may also place patients at significant risk, resulting in death or serious injury. Awareness of this risk must be heightened across the healthcare continuum.

Educational Resources

Straight A's to Prevent Bed Rail Entrapment

This poster illustrates the seven zones of bed entrapment and discusses the requisite approach, assessment, actions, and awareness to prevent entrapment.

Bed Rail Entrapment Video

This educational video addressess bed rail entrapment, including the benefits and risks of bed rails, entrapment risk factors, and risk reduction strategies.

Articles

I'm Stuck and I Can't Get Out! Hospital Bed Entrapment

Entrapment involves a patient who is caught, trapped, or entangled in the bed system (e.g., bed rails). Bed rails are beneficial, but misuse can place patients at significant risk.

Companion Online Information

The Clinical Guidance for the Assessment and Implementation of Bed Rails in Hospitals, Long Term Care Facilities and Home Care Settings

The objective of this online guidance is to provide a uniform set of recommendations for caregivers in hospitals, long-term care facilities, and home care settings to use when assessing their patients’ need for and possible use of bed rails.

Hospital Bed System Dimensional and Assessment Guidance to Reduce Entrapment

This online guidance provides recommendations relating to hospital beds and hospital bed accessories that are intended to reduce life-threatening entrapments associated with hospital bed systems.

A Guide for Modifying Bed Systems and Using Accessories to Reduce the Risk of Entrapment

This online guide focuses on modifying bed systems and using add-on or replacement equipment and accessories to reduce the openings in existing bed systems that can cause entrapment.

A Guide to Bed Safety: Bed Rails in Hospitals, Nursing Homes and Home Health Care—The Facts

This online brochure discusses the benefits and risks of bed rails, as well concerns of patients and family members about the use of bed rails.

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