Safer lifting for patient care
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Safer lifting for patient care
Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1991
3rd ed
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Description
This is the third edition of this successful compendium of patient-handling techniques, both manual and mechanical, for use by individuals or teams of lifters in caring for the sick and disabled. Fully illustrated methods of
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Essential information: Biomechanics, ergonomics and epidermiology :
- Why we should learn to lift correctly
- Friction, posture, bracing and commands
- Mechanics of stability and stances
- The grasps
- Mechanics and performance of rocking manoeuvers, and the use of blocks
- Selection of the lift
- Standard procedure for a lift
- Moving body parts
- Turning the patient over
- Part 2 Aids to lifting:
- The patient handling slings
- Hoists
- Part 3 The lifts:
- Shoulder (Australian) lift
- Through arm lift
- Orthodox lift
- Half shoulder / half orthodox lift
- Through arm and orthodox lifts with slings
- Raising a patient's pelvis for nursing purposes
- Three-person (team) lift
- Through arm transfer with slings
- Axillary lift
- Elbow lift
- Transfer sling lift
- Falls
- Floor to (wheel) chair lift using two manoeuvers
- Through arm and sling lift
- Waistband lift
- Buttock lift
- Sitting to standing sling lift
- Forearm support lift
- Forearm hold seesaw lift
- Support in standing
- Turning in standing
- To sit a patient down
- Lifting a patient from lying to sitting up
- Lifting and moving loads other than patients
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