Safety Tips
Chapter 1: Introduction
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Hill-Rom® 405 Electric Bed Service Manual (MAN336 REV 2)
Safety Tips
To help prevent the risk of hospital bed fires, make sure facility personnel
follow the safety tips in the FDA Public Health Notification: Safety Tips for
Preventing Hospital Bed Fires.
Refer to facility protocol when you make an analysis of a patient for
entrapment risk. Monitor the patients as applicable. Failure to do so
could cause injury or death.
Refer to facility protocol when you make an analysis of a patient for
entrapment risk. Monitor the patients as applicable. Make sure that all
siderails are fully latched when in the raised position. Failure to do so
could cause injury or death.
Siderails are intended to be a reminder to the patient of the unit’s edges, not a
patient-restraining device. When applicable, Hill-Rom recommends that
medical persons determine the proper methods necessary to make sure a
patient remains safely in bed.
Make sure the bed is in the low position when the patient is unattended.
This may reduce the severity of any injuries caused from patient falls.
Always set the brakes when the unit is occupied, except when you
transport a patient. Reconfirm before any patient transfer. Failure to do
so may cause injury or equipment damage.
Use the lockout control to deactivate the bed functions. Movement of a
patient or inadvertent activation of the bed functions by untrained
persons could cause injury.
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