§ 1224.2 Requirements for portable bed rails.
During the night, the admitting nurse raised his bed rails.
As the article acknowledges, the use of bed rails by nursing homes has declined.
She left at midnight, after she had made sure the bed rails were not being used.
Anna stood holding on to the bed rails and cried silently.
Before leaving, she told staff that bed rails should not be used as they made Mr Eaton distressed and confused.
In 2006, the F.D.A. issued voluntary guidelines, instructing hospitals and nursing homes on the use of bed rails.
Gloria Black, who has campaigned for safer bed rails after her mother was killed in a 2006 accident, said the agencies' action was a positive first step.
Gloria Black, whose mother was found dead, apparently strangled when her neck got caught in bed rails in a health facility, should be commended for championing the cause of resident safety in nursing homes ("After Dozens of Deaths, Inquiry Into Bed Rails," front page, Nov. 26).
Mr. Michels said clinical trials were under way to test how copper bed rails, arm rests and other hospital fixtures can reduce the numbers of bacteria in hospitals.
Nano-engineers have developed a way to coat both hard surfaces (like hospital bed rails, doorknobs and furniture) and also soft surfaces (sheets, gowns and curtains) with microscopic nanoparticles of silver, an element known to kill microbes.
