Hospital Beds

The hospital beds are designed differently to that of the bedroom bed. But what you sometimes do with your bed when you get sick may be manifested in the operation of the hospital bed in its functionality. 

To differentiate, your regular bed basically flat and the hospital bed has added mechanisms to serve different purposes.

A hospital  bed can have its upper portion raised to a recline. It helps the patient up to a recline or sitting position. This is raising the upper torso (or head) of the patient and is called the FOWLER'S Position.  The patient may then be fed in this position in oral feeding. It also helps ease the breathing of the patient.

Many of the modern hospital beds also has the capacity to raise the lower extremities, at times higher than the level of the head. These configuration of the bed can place the patient into the Trendelenburg position.  Trendelenburg position or T-position is a way to manage Hypotensive episodes.