Assistive Devices for Use with Patient Handling Tasks

Details

• Personal Author:
  Garg, Arun ; Owen BD
• Description:
  Back pain among nursing personnel is common and usually attributed to involvement in patient handling tasks. Nursing assistants in a nursing home ranked the following tasks as most stressful to the back: transferring patients on and off the toilet, in and out of bed, and transfers needed for bathing. Criteria were established for selection of assistive devices to be used to help decrease back stress while carrying out these tasks. Strategies were developed for locating assistive devices. Assistive devices found were limited in number but included hoists, sliding boards, belts, slings, and a turn table. Preliminary trials were conducted to determine which devices should be studied in an attempt to decrease back stress while performing patient handling tasks. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Ergonomics Health Personnel Musculoskeletal Diseases Musculoskeletal System Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Back Injuries Health Care Personnel Health Care Workers Lifting Medical Personnel Nurses Nursing Occupational Hazards Patient Handling
• ISBN:
  9780850667486
• Publisher:
  Taylor and Francis
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Contract
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 5 ; Wisconsin
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20059278
• Citation:
  Advances in industrial ergonomics and safety II. Das B, Mital A, eds. Philadelphia, PA: Taylor and Francis, 1990 Jun; 2:585-592
• Editor(s):
  Das B; Mital A
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1990
• Performing Organization:
  University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Advances in industrial ergonomics and safety II. Proceedings of the Annual International Industrial Ergonomics and Safety Conference held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 10-13 June 1990. The Official Conference of the International Foundation for Industrial Ergonomics and Safety Research
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:375c41fe8f60e62c4da909a9baca3ff527a85ce48a0ef8d96908600cc688769d899c0cd3274fc0b6be89843ce020972e0ffc4e626020e8793161d6956bd9ec97
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/223556/cdc_223556_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.51 MB ]