How To Use Slide Sheets With Handles
Tuck the closed end of the folded slide sheet under the patient.
How to use slide sheets with handles. Roll the patient back on top of the slide sheet they will now be on their back. Moving a person up the bed using a slide sheet with handles. Sturdy box stitched handles surrounding each side of the tube sheet provide caregivers ease of use function. If you can t roll the person unroll the slide sheet under them.
The tube design allows the nylon fabric to slide against itself creating a frictionless maneuver for either laterally transferring or reposition a patient in bed. To place the slide sheets under the patient the carer rolls the patient on their side and places slide sheets under hips or shoulders or both. Fitting a slide sheet by unrolling it underneath a person. In this video we will look at slide sheets and how they can be used to aid manual handling activities.
Roll the patient onto their other side onto the slide sheet. Roll the patient back onto the slide sheet s.