In an emergency situation, a need for supplementary oxygen for a patient may arise. A provision for this is realized by incorporating an oxygen line with below specifications;

• Oxygen cylinder (custom capacity 8.5 m3) with more than 95% purity, free for dust and other contaminants. This provides the oxygen needed and with proper hose line configuration, it can serve up to 10 beds on oxygen for about 8 hours. To avoid frequent changing of cylinder, we recommend having a cylinder manifold with four cylinders per 10-bed unit.
• Oxygen cylinder double stage pressure regulator which controls the rate of continuous flow of oxygen and ensures an outlet pressures of 4 bar. Based on connected beds to an oxygen line during maximum utilization, the outlet pressures can be re-adjusted to slightly higher than 4 bar to cater for the pressure drops along the line.
• Generates air flow rate of 0.3m3/min.
• It has an isolation valve used when changing cylinder.
• High pressure hose pipes with internal diameter of 10mm and pressure limit of up to 13 bar. This has sufficient safety factor to deliver oxygen of 4 bar supplied by the tank. The hose runs on the trunking compartment. The piping is done using poly-urethane pipe that is cheaper than copper and easy to connect.
• British standard oxygen terminal, compatible with normal flow meters and machines that use oxygen on each bed. It provides for plug and play provision for a humidifier and other oxygen equipment when need for supplementing patients oxygen arises.
• The unit comes with a flowmeter with humidifier and breathing masks.

An alarm lightbulb enables a patient who is confined to bed and has no other way of communicating with staff to alert a nurse visually of the need for any type of assistance and requires the attending officer to visit the patient’s bed to determine his/her needs. This is achieved by incorporating a red alarm light on top of the IV pole for easy and visibility by the attending officers. The alarm light switch is located at the bedside via a flexible cord for easy access by the patient. It enables a patient who is able to get out of bed but for whom this may be hazardous, exhausting, or otherwise difficult to alert a nurse of the need for any assistance. Overall, it provides the patient with an increased sense of security and better response rate to his/her needs by the attending officers.

The need for holding medical items e.g. medicine bottles, boxes, tests kits when attending to a patient or even a platform to place patient’s eating plate necessitates the need for an over-bed side tray.

Our design has the advantages below;

• Twin compartment tray. Easy mounting & dismounting to the bed by use of bolts and nuts.
• Light weight and compact design.
• No buckling under loading.
• Ample space with a dimension of 30cmm × 30 cm.

DESIGN FOR ASSEMBLY

The overall bed is made of sub-assemblies including; headboard, footboard, hook-on rail platform, castor wheels, IV pole and side tray.

DIMENSION

The bed assembly is custom made to various available mattress sizes i.e.

• 3ft × 6ft
• 3.5ft × 6ft

The bed height is 700mm.

FINISH

All metal parts are given a spray-painted finish with two coats of epoxy paints customized to hospital colour code. This offers up to 10 years material protection with a great aesthetics. All beds have smooth finish with no sharp edges, bends, burrs or other deformities.