When your company has decided that it needs to look into a different kind of transport wheelchair for patients, travelers, or clients, it is also vital to look at the wheelchair products, support, and accessories that will accompany this new item. A good medical wheelchair is just that, but having the right stuff alongside it will make good even better.
If you work in the medical, travel, or any other field where your company spends any significant amount of time transferring people from one place to another, you have learned many of the limitations of the standard wheelchair. While certainly there are ongoing efforts to make wheelchairs to better fit the needs of their occupants, there has been less interest or even thought of reforming them for the attendants.
At first blush, this is obvious. The attendants have no mobility issues and therefore little need to have a chair “suit” them. In fact, it seems quite inconsiderate to look at things that way.
Except, that there are many situations where the person who spends the most time with the transport wheelchair is an attendant. With these particular chairs, the occupant is ephemeral and often only there due to regulations requiring its use – such as to a procedure or exiting a hospital. Even the mobility impaired in this area will have their own personal chairs but may use institutional ones in certain situations.
Fortunately, there is a transport chair geared to institutions and those who “drive” the chairs. When their needs are met on these occasions, it makes for greater comfort and efficiency, leading to an improved experience for the patient.
There is also a range of wheelchair products supporting these new chairs. Again, the goal here is to provide for the best institutional use possible to make things easier for everyone.
For example, these chairs are nestable. This means they can be stacked up against one another like shopping carts or rentable luggage carriers. This is an advantage in a number of ways. When the transport chairs are stacked into the support product in the form of a rack, they take up significantly less space than a traditional chair.
Beyond this, the rack can be locked and secured with a coin-return feature, which can of course be geared to the institution’s needs. This means the chairs can be placed in easily accessible areas without impeding movement and with a reduced risk of theft than even exists when a standard chair is supposed to be locked up.
Beyond this, the chairs can also be equipped with elevating leg rests for additional client comfort. This is especially valuable in travel situations where it has been demonstrated that having the legs in the standard sitting position for too long can cause potentially fatal problems. Being able to raise the traveler’s legs while moving her from one gate to another reduces this risk drastically.
Another wheelchair product that is both attractive and part of an anti-theft system is that of a nameplate that can be ordered with the chair and carry identifying information for easy recovery in the rare case someone actually manages to steal one.
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