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How to Use the Sara Stedy
Transferring the Patient to a Bed
• Help or encourage the patient to achieve the sitting position.
• The patient’s knees should stay in contact with the kneepad, and the patient should sit back on the seat
halves during the transfer.
Fig. 15
1) Bring the patient over to the bed and
apply the
brakes.
3) Pivot the two seat halves up.
2) Ask the patient to stand up.
4) Ask the patient to sit down holding the
crossbar.