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Building on foundations that have been established over the past two decades, JD Healthcare Group will continue with its core focus in providing solutions for the Safe Manual Handling of people, becoming the most trusted provider of vertical and horizontal transfers, thereby ensuring the safety of caregivers
as well as that of patients.
Historically, JD Healthcare has been regarded as the pioneer in Australia with Air Assisted Transfer devices through representation of the Hovertech range of products and it remains the intention of the company to continue its strong national growth, whilst expanding on its mechanical and non-mechanical offering to further develop our patient-centric product portfolio framework that provides holistic solutions for the patient journey from illness to recovery and beyond, including ease of living, dignity and safety for patients, residents and staff alike.
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As we covered in our previous blog – ‘performing patient handling tasks safely’, the immobility of a patient or person, can lead to a number of consequences. Here we take a deeper look into the bodily systems immobility can affect. The complications and hazards associated with immobility and according to bodily system are described below:…
Immobility and complete bed rest of a patient can lead to life threatening physical and psychological complications and consequences. The nursing care team and other health care professionals like physical therapists must, therefore, promote patient mobility and prevent immobility whenever possible. Immobility can adversely affect all physiological bodily systems. The hazards or complications of patient…
MANUAL HANDLING: Musculoskeletal disorders (WMSD’s) Musculoskeletal disorders include a wide range of inflammatory and degenerative conditions affecting the muscles, tendons, ligaments, joints, peripheral nerves and supporting blood vessels (Punnett & Wegman, 2004). A ‘disorder’ implies a condition with a multifactorial aetiology. WMSDs (Work-related musculoskeletal disorders) often develop from exposure to more than one workplace hazard…