Shopping for hospital beds is never fun ... The low bed height eliminates the need for bed rail restraints, and the multiposition elevated headrest comes in three different deck heights.

Examples include wrist and ankle belts, vests, mitts, and full-length side rails attached to the bed ... Another hospital is redesigning an entire ward to be “restraint-free” through steps ...

Serious harm also can occur when patients climb over rails and fall or when rails are used as a restraint ... entangled or strangled in hospital bed rails, including 531 deaths, since 1985.

In a statement, the hospital writes the data may be skewed because its facility only treats patients over age 65. Frisbie says for this older population, restraints such as wrap-around bed rails ...

Between 1985 and 2013, the Food and Drug Administration received reports of 901 incidents of patients caught, trapped, entangled or strangled by hospital bed rails. They included 531 deaths ...

In 2011, a nurse at a hospital in Allentown, Pa., found 88-year-old Donald Campbell strangled in bed, with his right shoulder and upper body between the mattress and the side rail. Records show he ...

This report highlights the current and future market potential for hospital beds and provides a detailed analysis of the competitive environment, regulatory scenario, drivers, restraints ...