Patient Handling and Mobility

Protect your clinicians while they protect your patients. Our safe patient handling and mobility solutions can help.

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Explore All Patient Handling and Mobility Products in Our Catalog

Safe patient handling and mobility equipment can help you conveniently support patients early with a variety of in-bed, up-from-bed and out-of-bed applications.

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Help Reduce Hospital Length of Stay

When it comes to hospital length of stay, shorter is better. 

It’s better for patients who want to avoid complications like respiratory infections1 and pressure injuries2 that are common during immobility. And it’s better for hospitals, where the average ICU stay of six to nine days3 can cost up to $32,419.4 

Proven mobility tools and protocols can help you get your patients moving early and often, so they can recover quickly. They’ve helped hospitals like yours see: 

30%

lower overall hospital costs6

36%

shorter ICU length of stay5

46%

fewer ventilator days6

Maintain Patient Mobility and Prevent Falls

You can help your patients avoid falls in the ICU, Med-Surg and beyond while building the strength and stamina they need prior to discharge.  

Patient falls are the most frequently reported adverse7 incidents in adult inpatient units.8 Worse yet, patients who have fallen are: 

  • Prone to longer lengths of stay9 
  • 21% more likely to be readmitted within 30 days of discharge10 
  • 2.7x more likely to require post-acute care10
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Protect Clinicians with Safe Patient Handling

We believe safety and mobility should go hand in hand—and that applies to clinicians as well as patients. Our safe patient handling solutions can help you safely mobilize patients without risking injury or requiring more clinicians than necessary.  

 

Our safe patient handling solutions include:  

  • Overhead lifts always at hand to help you mobilize patients safely and easily 
  • Mobile lifts to bring safe patient-handling support wherever you need it 
  • Slings and accessories to best support each unique patient and environment 

Protect your clinicians while they protect your patients. Our safe patient handling solutions can help. 

Patient and Caregiver interaction with LikoGuard Sling
  1. Huynh TT, Liesching TN, Cereda M, Lei Y, Frazer MJ, Nahouraii MR, Diette GB, Efficacy of Oscillation and Lung Expansion in Reducing Postoperative Pulmonary Complication, Journal of the American College of Surgeons (2019).
  2. Nigam Y, et al. Nursing Times. 2009;105(23):18-22.
  3. Halpern NA, Pastores SM. (2010). Critical care medicine in the United States 2000-2005: an analysis of bed numbers, occupancy rates, payer mix, and costs. Critical Care Medicine, 38(1):65-71.
  4. Dasta JF, et al. Critical Care Medicine 2005;33(6):1266-71.
  5. Klein KE, Mulkey MR, Bena JF, Albert NM. (2015). Clinical and psychologic effects of early mobilization in patients treated in a neurologic ICU: A comparative study. Critical Care Medicine, 43(4):865-73.
  6. Klein KE, Bena JF, Albert NM. (2015). Impact of early mobilization on mechanical ventilation and cost in neurological ICU. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine Journal.
  7. Currie LM. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2008.
  8. Ganz DA, et al. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; January 2013.
  9. Wong CA, et al. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 2011;37(2):81-87. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. September 2012.
  10. Centers for Medical and Medicaid Services. September 2012.


 

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