Blog posts tagged with 'fall management'

Falls can happen to anyone irrespective or age or medical condition. Over 65% of falls may cause no serious harm however the consequences of falling can be serious, ranging from distress and loss of confidence, through to injuries, pain and loss of independence.

Falls are the most common cause of emergency hospital admissions. Falls and fall –related injuries are a real danger to patients...

In last week’s blog we mentioned our fall management socks that have been colour coded for use in hospitals and care homes to help identify fall risk patients, but that is not where their medical use ends, there are still many benefits to using the socks than just the colour coding.

Repton Medical is your partner for falls prevention and protection as well as providing health care products for the elderly. We realise the importance to find new products to offer you alternative solutions for your fall prevention programmes. This year we have began working with a company from the Netherlands named Daza who specialise in electronic fall sensors and monitors. Daza began developing safety monitoring solutions in the year 2000 and they are now widely used in the European healthcare sector. Encouraged by strong results and the acknowledgement of health care professionals, Daza has now become a market leader in the Netherlands in the field of electronic fall prevention and patient safety. We are privileged to be the only UK based company to introduce their products into the UK healthcare market. The Optiseat and Optiscan fall alarms are two products we believe provides a solution for you, aimed at reducing falls and monitoring the Optiscan detects when a patient gets out of bed and the Optiseat detects the moment the patient rises from their chair.

In last weeks blog we wrote about our latest product, the Anti-Embolism Stockings, and this week we will be continuing the same theme but we will be focusing on the the colour coding of the stockings.

Falls can happen to anyone at any age and they are more common as we get older. Working out what causes falls and putting them right is the key to making your patients feel safer and more confident.

Falls among the elderly cost the government almost £990 million per year. Falls occur every day for the elderly in retirement care homes and in the NHS hospitals. In the UK alone, over 700,000 people a year are taken to casualty as a result of a fall, many admitted to hospital with hip fractures costing the NHS £1.7 bn.

Do you want to reduce the risk of patient/ resident harm resulting from falls? Falls and fall related injuries in older hospital patients and nursing home residents are a major problem! Falls can occur due to many reasons which include muscle weakness, cardiovascular problems, dementia, delirium, toileting and medication.

BRAND NEW TO THE MARKET- TREAD SAFE ANTI-EMBOLISM STOCKING Repton Medical is a UK supplier of Fall Prevention & Protection Products. Our range of high quality products offer great value and are extremely competitively priced, helping you to SAVE MONEY and provide the BEST in patient safety and care.

Falls are on the increase. More and more reports are now found online surrounding the issues of patient falls within the NHS. Falls and fractures are common and a serious problem effecting older people. Hospitals around the UK are receiving high fall risk patients as a result of this. It is reported that between the 1st October and 30th September 2012 there was 209,000 occurred falls in UK hospitals. The estimated cost on the NHS due to fall related injuries is estimated at £2.3 billion per year. (NICE, 2013). As well as the cost on the NHS, falls cause additional suffering for the patient, not only do they experience cuts and bruises, but it can lead to serious injuries such as hip fractures or head injuries which can cause death.