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<\/p>\nThe hospital has invested in some super expensive and high tech electric beds. Unfortunately they are impossible to use. I have never yet met a doctor who can work these controls.<\/p>\n
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It looks self explanatory enough, and heaven knows, you wouldn\u2019t think it would be that hard to get a bed to do the stuff it tells you it can do, but you need to press a sequence of buttons before it will do anything for you. You press the lock button once, then every other button that\u2019s lit up twice, in a series, and then the lock button again, and then hold down the button for the movement you want. Or something. The nurses were all sent on courses on how to make the beds work, but even they struggle. If you just try and work it out using basic principles, you have no chance. Luckily, it\u2019s not as if we ever need to move beds around in order to get patients onto or off of operating tables, or need to suddenly lie them flat to do CPR! Oh no actually, we do.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m guessing there\u2019s some middle manager out there in purchasing who\u2019s pocketed a large bonus for a bulk buy of hundreds of these, and fair play to them, managers are scum and don\u2019t hang around for long, I have no respect for people who do that sort of thing – but it\u2019s the product designers and engineers who really disappoint me. Come on, guys, you\u2019re professionals – can you not see user friendliness is vital for hospital equipment like this, and is surely more important than the ability to lock a bed so it doesn\u2019t accidentally or maliciously allow a patient to sit up in bed?<\/p>\n
Rating 1 out of 10 – because they\u2019re clean at least – would not buy again. Unfortunately, I don\u2019t get a choice.<\/p>\n
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