What is an ICU bed, what are the characteristics of an ICU nursing bed, and is it different from an ordinary nursing bed

27 Mar.,2025

 

ICU beds, commonly known as ICU nursing beds, (ICU is short for Intensive Care Unit) are nursing beds used in intensive care units. With the development of medical nursing specialty, the birth of new medical equipment and the improvement of hospital management system, intensive medical care is a medical organization and management form integrating modern medical nursing technology. ICU bed is a necessary medical equipment in ICU ward center.

Because the ICU ward is facing special critical patients, many newly admitted patients are even in a life-threatening state such as shock, so the ward nursing work is complex and difficult, the standard ICU bed requirements are also very strict, mainly have the following functional requirements:

1, multi-position adjustment using safe, reliable, stable performance of medical silent motor, full electric control of the overall rise and fall of the bed, backplane and thigh plate adjustment; It can be adjusted to the cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) position, heart chair position, "FOWLER" position, MAX examination position, Tert/anti-Tert position, and the central control system can display the backplane, leg plate, Tert/anti-Tert position, and rollover Angle to meet clinical needs.

Due to the ICU ward center there are many patients with deep consciousness disorders, can not turn over independently, the need for nursing staff often turn over, scrub, prevent bedsores; There is no roll over assistance to complete a patient's roll over scrub usually requires two to three personnel to assist the completion, and the nursing staff is easy to injure the waist, which brings great trouble and inconvenience to the work of clinical nursing staff, the modern standard sense of ICU beds can be very convenient for side roll, through foot or hand control, it is easy to help patients achieve roll over.

The ICU bed can control the movement of the bed body in multiple directions, the guardrail on both sides of the bed, the bed end plate, the handheld controller, the foot control on both sides are equipped with control functions, so that the nursing staff can simply operate and control the bed according to the most convenient nursing rescue, in addition, there are one-key reset and one-key position, alarm and other functions. It is used to supervise the movement of patients in transitional rehabilitation period.

The critically ill patients in ICU require a large amount of fluid exchange every day, which is crucial for intake and excretion. The traditional operation is to manually record the amount of fluid in and out, but it is also easy to ignore the secretion of sweat or the rapid burning and consumption of internal fat in the body. After accurate weighing function is available, continuous weight monitoring is carried out on the patients. Doctors can easily compare the difference between the two data to adjust the treatment plan in time, and improve the data management of quality changes in patient treatment. At present, the weighing accuracy of mainstream ICU beds has reached 10-20g.

5. Back X-ray radiography requires that the radiography of critically ill patients can be completed in the ICU ward, and the backplane is equipped with the X-ray box slide rail, so that the X-ray machine can be used for near-whole body photography without moving the patient.

The ICU ward center requires that the nursing bed can be flexible and stable brake fixed, so that it is easy to rescue and hospital transport, etc., the use of central control brakes, medical universal wheels.