The HC superintendence delivers 23 strike model electric beds this Monday (04-71) and celebrates the management's goal of equipping the hospital's 419 beds with automated electric beds. The resources total R$ 715.680,00 and are from parliamentary amendments to the Union budget, indicated to the HC by federal deputies Arlindo Chinaglia, Paulo Freire, Sinval Malheiros and senator José Serra. On the occasion, ophthalmology equipment purchased with an amendment from federal deputy Roberto Alves will also be delivered. Parliamentarians will be present.
As announced in the last delivery of 45 beds, carried out in 2015, the Administration coordinator, professor José Roberto Matos Souza celebrates the achievement of the goal and the leap in the quality of the institution's hospitality. "The standard of comfort and safety that the new beds provide, both to the nursing team and to the patient, is indisputable", comments Matos Souza.
For the HC Assistance Coordinator, Professor Antonio Gonçalves de Oliveira Filho, the investments represent another step within the hospital's humanization and patient safety programs. "As it is a highly complex hospital, patients and families often develop relationships throughout their stay that can last for days or weeks and this care provided by the hotel will have an impact on everyone."
The new beds - fully automated - are imported and provide greater comfort and safety for the user, as well as better quality of work for the nursing team, as they are lighter (high-resistance thermoplastic) and activated by manual command controls.
Among other advantages, the new beds offer several movements made by electrical controls that allow patients weighing up to two hundred kilos to be positioned, and all have a fifth wheel that provides greater agility in movement with 360-degree rotation.
The electric beds have a diagonal double-action brake, rails injected in high-resistance thermoplastic material, articulated and retractable systems that allow retraction under the bed, facilitating patient transfer, with a locking and unlocking system activated by a mechanism next to the grille providing greater safety to the patient.
The equipment allows all fawler, sitting, back, knee, vascular, cardiac, bed elevation, trendlemburg and reverse trendlemburg movements.
The replacement of steel beds began in 2009. Many of them had been in the hospital since its inauguration in 1985, and even though they were operational, they presented several deficiencies in terms of comfort for patients and difficulties in handling them for health professionals, especially nurses.
Ophthalmology
Another technological advance that will be presented is a portable ultrasound biomicroscope (UBM) with a high-resolution screen and touch screen. The equipment allows you to evaluate the internal structures of the eyeball (lens, vitreous cavity, retina) and the orbital cavity (muscles, optic nerve, orbit and orbital fat), in the search for diseases such as dense cataracts, vitreous opacities, diabetic vitreous hemorrhages, post ocular trauma and uveitis.
Another advantage of the equipment is the diagnosis and monitoring of the growth of intraocular tumors (hemangiomas, melanomas and metastases). The equipment purchased will replace another device that is more than 12 years old. Within the same parliamentary amendment to the Union's budget, there is also a provision for purchasing another seven pieces of equipment for ophthalmology from the HC, totaling R$ 350.000,00.
Caius Lucilius with Beatriz Bittencourt
HC Unicamp Press Office
