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How to Use the Sara Stedy
Transferring the Patient to a Toilet
• 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. 17
Transferring the Patient at the Toilet
• Once the patient is in place, apply the castor brakes and ask the patient to stand.
• Remove the patient’s clothing as necessary, then pivot the seat halves upwards to allow the patient to
lower herself/himself onto the toilet seat. The Sara Stedy can thus function as a support frame, improv-
ing the patient’s confidence.
1) Bring the patient over to the toilet 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.
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