Medical advancements: The new Navigator has built-in medical diagnostics and other features that reduce readmission rates and staff injuries, according to the company.
Medical equipment manufacturer Sizewise, which is based in Orlando, Fla., has introduced the Navigator, an “intuitive” hospital bed that the company said is designed to change the form and function of patient care and patient healing.
The clinician-designed and multifunctional Navigator was launched during the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses’ annual National Teaching Institute in May.
“It was important to build a bed that would fit into the long-term equipment-buying strategy of acute care hospitals today while still providing them with technology and functions that will take them into the future of patient care,” said Trever Frickey, Sizewise chief operating officer.
The Navigator has a safe working load of 600 pounds and is the industry’s lowest acute care bed, with an 11-inch tall deck for safe patient ambulation and fall prevention, the company said. It elevates to 33 inches. The Navigator comes with an SW Adapt zoned foam mattress with an extendable foot section.
The bed has built-in medical diagnostics and other features that reduce readmission rates and staff injuries. The integrated motion bed movement alarm has multiple tones or can be custom recorded by a family member or in the language of the patient. Beacon Safety Lighting allows for a quick-glance status check as a nurse walks by the room. Four points of control make the bed functions easily accessible to the patient and care provider.
