Despite their necessity, beds and surfaces do not always receive proportional attention and innovation — even as the risks associated with prolonged bed rest remain a key priority for caregivers.

The patient was out of bed the following morning, walked about the room and spent considerable time in a chair. He required 1 cc. of 1:2000 Prostigmin on the 2nd and 3rd days for relief of ...

In January, MLK hospital officials were so worried about how long one patient had lingered there that the chief executive, Dr. Elaine Batchlor, got on the phone herself to try to find him a bed at ...

An investigation by the California Department of Public Health stops short of saying patient Alberto Herrera should have been put on a mental health hold. He walked out of hospital, collapsed and ...

"Get the patient out of bed and walking," has become an increasingly familiar refrain of surgeons after virtually every kind of operation. But there seemed to be one obvious exception: if ...

He woke up in a hospital bed, heartbroken and confused. “Took my eyes off the road for a quick second,” Lewis remembered. But that’s all it took. He says his car flipped five times. Doctors told Lewis ...

In California, a study at 21 Kaiser Permanente hospitals used a reprioritization of oral care and getting patients out of bed to reduce rates of hospital-acquired pneumonia by around 70%.

Nunes T, et al. Deployment and validation of a smart bed architecture for untethered patients with wireless biomonitoring stickers. Med Biol Eng Comput . 2024;62(12):3815-3840. doi: 10.1007/s11517 ...