Place your stretcher beside the other trolley with a gap of approximately 90 to 120 cm. Have your stretcher slightly higher that the trolley you will be moving the patient onto, so that gravity will assist with the transfer.
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PAT-SLIDING THE SITTING PATIENT |
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The Sitting Pat-Slide Technique can be used to transfer patients from numerous positions such as bed to stretcher, stretcher to wheelchair and vice versa. The manoeuvre can also be used to transfer obese patients, who, due to medical conditions (eg Respiratory Distress) cannot be laid flat for using the hospital pat-slide or poles. |
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Training Requirements: 2 x Staff |
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Step
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Place your stretcher beside the other trolley with a gap of approximately 90 to 120 cm. Have your stretcher slightly higher that the trolley you will be moving the patient onto, so that gravity will assist with the transfer.
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Step 2 Slide the LSB will underneath the patient’s buttocks, and resting the other end of the LSB on the other trolley. |
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Step 3 With one Officer supporting from behind the patient and the second Officer holding the ankles, slide the patient down the LSB. With gravity assisting, there should be no actual lifting during the slide. |
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Step 4
Once on the other trolley, raise the head of the trolley to support the patient in the sitting position. |
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Step
5 Finally remove the LSB. |
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