Posey Bed 8060 User Manual

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Posey Bed 8060

All hospital beds pose safety and entrapment risks. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

received approximately 803 entrapment reports in the U.S. for standard hospital beds over a period

of 24 years from January 1, 1985 to January 1, 2009.

The FDA formed the Hospital Bed Safety Workgroup (HBSW) to develop solutions to reduce the

risk of patient entrapment in hospital beds. The HBSW issued guidelines in 2006 describing seven

potential zones of entrapment and recommendations to reduce life-threatening entrapments

associated with hospital bed systems.

The Posey Bed 8060 was designed to help eliminate each of the seven entrapment zones when the

canopy is used with a compatible hospital bed at the lowest acceptable height (16 or 17 inches from

the floor to the deck of the bed) when the head of the bed is down and the mattress is flat.

• Patients who, because of mental or physical disability, cannot reposition or remove him or

herself from a confined area in the bed.

• Any other patient identified by the doctor, the care plan, or Interdisciplinary Healthcare Team

(IDHT) to be at risk of entrapment in the gaps created when the head of the Posey Bed 8060 is

up.

To help reduce the risk of entrapment, do the following:

• Keep the mattress flat.

– If you need to elevate the head or body of an at-risk patient, while the patient is

alone, keep the mattress flat and use a Posey Torso Cushion (Cat. 8025) to position the

patient.

– If you must leave the head of the bed up for an at-risk patient (for example, while

watching TV or if called for by the doctor’s order, or the patient’s care plan, use the

Posey Filler Cushions (Cat. 8021) and provide extra monitoring.

• Provide extra monitoring.

– Monitor patient per facility’s restraint protocol to ensure that the Posey Filler Cushions

cannot be removed by an at-risk patient and that an at-risk patient cannot crawl under

or around the Posey Filler Cushions.

• Avoid stretching the canopy material.

– The canopy may stretch over time during normal use, or due to patients who try to

escape. This could result in pocket areas on the inside of the canopy. Regular

washing and drying should help reduce this condition.

DO NOT use any canopy that

has tears or damage and request a replacement.

If necessary, consult the doctor or the IDHT to find a different method of treatment for any at-risk

patient.

Background

At-Risk Patients

Reducing the Risk

of Entrapment

Alternative Method

of Treatment

A Special Note

This report can be found at http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm164366.htm

Guidance for Industry and FDA Staff – Hospital Bed System Dimensional and Assessment Guidance to Reduce Entrapment. March 10, 2006). This report can be found at

http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/DeviceRegulationandGuidance/GuidanceDocuments/ucm072662.htm