If you are a person who likes to be in charge, you’ll like our electric patient lift. It’s a convenient way to get around in your home. Our electric patient lift is powered by the same DC motor that powers our wheelchair lifts and our electric scooter chairs. It’s easy to use and takes up very little space. It’s a bit hard to imagine how much more convenient and efficient this is than using a manual wheelchair.
With the electric patient lift you simply push the handle to the desired height. As you go up, the power motor kicks in and the motorized lift will automatically lower itself. I can’t say that I’m a fan of this because we never noticed that the motorized lift was actually moving. It’s always either up or down, which doesn’t really feel like it’s doing anything.
I could easily imagine a patient lift being used by a nurse or doctor with the proper training and equipment to use one.
I have seen a few patient lifts where the patient was on the lift and then the patient would be taken to a lower room. This was not done in my experience, but when you look at the video, you can see that the patient is actually going down the lift rather than being taken to a lower room. Just my opinion.
You can’t do it.
You can and you will. There are a couple of ways that a patient lift can be used. If you have a fully equipped lift, you can actually move the patient down to a lower floor as soon as you lift him. However, there are several reasons why you’re not supposed to do that. First of all, if you are doing an IV or a blood transfusion, you will need the patient to be on the lift for that.
The other problem with using a lift for this purpose is that you will probably need to be able to hold his head up until he gets to the bottom of the lift. And in that case, you will need to have the lift come up and then lower him to the floor. That may be something I should have mentioned.
You don’t really need to do this for a blood transfusion. In fact, you will want to make sure that he is properly hydrated. In reality, you can use a simple IV pump to administer fluid, but you may want to consider doing something a little more advanced.
He won’t necessarily need to be fully hydrated. We found that most people do fine with about a liter of diluted and filtered blood. But if you want to give him that much, you will need to use an IV pump for an infusion.
We looked at a number of the options, including giving him saline or colloid fluids plus electrolytes, using a simple IV pump, giving him the entire blood volume in a bag of ice, giving him a bag of saline, and giving him a bag of colloid fluids. The only blood bags that seemed to work on electric patients were bags of citrate or dextrose.