Critical Care.
FREEDOM IN CRITICAL CARE
We believe that patient seating needs to work just as hard for the carer as it does for the cared for. The Sertain™ chair is designed and built with both in mind.The cared for deserve freedom from:
- The isolation of critical illness
- Uncomfortable, undignified and risky hoist transfers
- Discomfort and pressure care damage
- An extended length of stay due to delayed rehab
- A rapid transfer back to bed when being sat out for the first time, if BP drops
- Manual handling and ergonomic risks
- Frustration around mobilisation because of inadequate equipment
- Worries about risky hoisting of (especially intubated) patients
- Safely transfer intubated patients without relying on hoisting (transfer laterally)
- Easily mobilise patients and lift them to their feet without risking a back injury
- “Sit out” patients that were previously considered bed bound
- Decrease length of stay and discharge patients with a higher functional strength
- Wheel patients outside of the unit, eg. to the cafe or a patio – to see “life outside critical care again”
- Advance the psychological healing process after the isolation of critical illness
Praise for the Sertain™
“You would hardly believe the difference it makes, psychologically and physiologically when we are able to easily transfer patients to the chair without hoisting and then to be able to take them down to the cafe, to take them outside, to see normal life again after the isolation of critical illness. None of this was possible before we introduced the Sertain™”
Rehabilitation After Critical Illness specialist nurse, who uses the Sertain™ chairs in ITU
“We look at patients in a different way now and realise that using conventional tilt in space seating, we would never be mobilising these patients the way we are now. It means a much earlier rehab which really is shortening the length of stay on ITU”.
Senior Respiratory Physio using the Sertain™ to mobilise patients within ITU
