Safety Information
80 Progressa® Bed Instructions for Use (171528 REV 9)
highly absorbent and air permeable. Failure to follow this guidance could interfere with surface
efficacy and cause injury.
• Warning—If the surface has an MCM® topper, make sure it is installed before a patient is put on
the bed.
FLAMMABILITY
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).
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. Injury could occur.
BED ARTICULATIONS
Do not operate bed controls until all persons and equipment are clear of mechanisms. To stop a
function: release the control, and/or activate the opposite function, and/or immediately unplug the
power cord.
To help prevent injury and/or equipment damage, obey these warnings:
• Warning—Observe lines closely during articulations. Always use good line management
techniques, particularly as the head section rises.
• Warning—When routing cables from other equipment in the MEDICAL BED, precautions shall
be taken to avoid squeezing those between parts of the MEDICAL BED.
VISITOR NOTIFICATION
Instruct visitors not to attempt operation of caregiver controls. They may assist the patient with patient
controls.
PATIENT TRANSFER
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.
Use Max-Inflate surface mode to maximize the firmness of surface to assist in patient surface-to- surface
transfers (available on Progressa® Therapy and Progressa® Pulmonary Surfaces only).
TRACTION EQUIPMENT
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.
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