A bed-mounted mobile intensive-care unit.
The provision of intensive-care facilities for patients in transit can present problems. We describe our novel approach to these in which we have added facilities to a standard bed which is used for the transfer of patients. This may also be a cost-effective method of providing intensive-care equipment to beds at any location.
Railton
R
R
West of Scotland Health Boards, Department of Clinical Physics & Bio-Engineering, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK.
Docker
S R
SR
Munley
A J
AJ
Richardson
W
W
Harvey
G M
GM
D001513:Beds; D003422:Critical Care / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004867:Equipment Design; D014187:Transportation of Patients / Q000379:methods*