MYTH: It takes less time to manually move patients than to use lift equipment.
FACT: It can actually take much longer to round up a team of colleagues to manually lift a patient than to find and use lifting equipment. It has been found that using mechanical devices to transfer patients takes fewer personnel and about five minutes less, overall, than manual transfers.
Source: Brought to you by the UM SRH SLAM Committee and Hydraulica, shown at left. Source:
www.osha.gov.gov/dsg/hosptial; Safe Patient Handling: Busting the Myths.
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