Safety Information
Progressa+ Bed Instructions for Use (216321 REV 2) 3
Warning—(Warnings continued) Obey all warnings throughout the manual. Failure to do so could
cause injury and or equipment damage:
• Warning—Do not operate the bed in the presence of flammable gas or vapors.
• Warning—Use oxygen administering equipment of the nasal, mask, or ventilator type only. Do
not use the bed with oxygen tents or in oxygen rich environments.
• Warning—Make sure hands, arms, legs, and feet are not under the bed or between sleep deck
sections as they move.
• Warning—Make sure you position tubes, lines, and linens away from moving parts.
• Warning—Make sure to use a compatible support surface (mattress) with the chair egress
function. See “Surface (mattress) and Bed Frame Compatibility” on page 125.
• Warning—To help prevent the risk of hospital bed fires, make sure facility personnel follow the
safety tips in the FDA Public Health Notification: Practice Hospital Bed Safety. (US only)
• Warning—The Progressa+ air surfaces are most effective when air circulation to the patient's
skin is unimpeded. Avoid use of plastic linen savers or plastic-lined incontinence pads which
obstruct air flow and permit moisture to remain in contact with the skin for prolonged periods
of time, contributing to skin breakdown. Any incontinence pads or bed-protecting linens used
in conjunction with these surfaces should be highly absorbent and air permeable. Failure to
follow this guidance could interfere with surface efficacy and cause injury.
• Warning—Reduce the possibility of fires by observing fire prevention rules and regulations.
• Warning—Patients should not be allowed to smoke in bed. Sheets and pillows generally do not
have flame retardance properties.
• Warning—Use hospital safe handling protocols when transferring a patient from one surface
to another (such as the bed to a stretcher). Failure to do so could cause injury.
• Warning—Evaluate patients for entrapment and asphyxiation risk according to facility
protocol, and monitor patients appropriately. Failure to do so could cause serious injury or
death.
• Warning—Use a minimum of two people to lift or move the Advance Surface and
Accelerate Surface. Those surfaces weigh approximately 60 lb (27 kg) up to 70 lb (32
kg) depending on the surface model.
• Warning—The device is not compatible for use in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Transfer
the patient to a compatible surface to do an MRI, and remove the bed from the MRI room.
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