Effectiveness of Installing Overhead Ceiling Lifts

Ronald, Lisa A.; Yassi, Analee; Spiegel, Jerry; Tate, Robert B.; Tait, Don; Mozel, Michelle R.

doi:10.1177/216507990205000306

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Section: Engineering Controlsmentioning

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“…The patient is suspended in a sling from an overhead track and this track allows patient care activities to be performed within the coverage area of the track. Ceiling lifts require less time for transfers than floor based mobile lifts; are stored overhead on a track and are a lucrative investment (Holliday, Fernie, & Plowman, 1994;Ronald et al, 2002; Villeneuve, 1998 Few evidence-based studies agree that this critical task places caregivers at an increased risk of back injury due to high spinal loads. Although the two-person draw sheet repositioning technique has the lowest low back disorder risk, spinal loads were still high, thus increasing the risk of a back injury (Marras, Davis, Kirking, & Bertsche, 1999).…”

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Evidence-Based Practices for Safe Patient Handling and Movement

Nelson

Baptiste

2006

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Efforts to reduce injuries associated with patient handling are often based on tradition and personal experience rather than scientific evidence. The purpose of this article is to summarize current evidence for interventions designed to reduce caregiver injuries, a significant problem for decades. Despite strong evidence, published over three decades, the most commonly used strategies have strong evidence that demonstrate they are ineffective. There is a growing body of evidence to support newer interventions that are effective or show promise in reducing musculoskeletal pain and injuries in care providers. The authors have organized potential solutions into three established ergonomic solution types: engineering based, administrative, and behavioral. For each intervention, the level of evidence to support its use is provided.Key words: work-related musculoskeletal injuries, patient handling, no lift policy, ergonomics, lifting techniques, nurse safety Strategies to prevent or minimize work-related musculoskeletal injuries associated with patient handling are often based on tradition and personal experience rather than scientific evidence. The most common patient handling approaches in the United States include manual patient lifting, classes in body mechanics, training in safe lifting techniques, and back belts. Surprisingly there is strong evidence that each of these commonly used approaches is not effective in reducing caregiver injuries. A major paradigm shift is needed away from these ineffective approaches towards the following evidence-based practices: (a) patient handling equipment/devices, (b) patient care ergonomic assessment protocols, (c) no lift policies, (d) training on proper use of patient handling equipment/devices, and (e) patient lift teams. Promising new interventions, which are still being tested, include use of unit-based peer leaders and clinical tools, such as algorithms and patient assessment protocols. Given the complexity of this high-risk, high volume, highcost problem, multifaceted programs are more likely to be effective than any single intervention. This new call for action includes systematic change in health care facilities across the continuum of care as well as a new curriculum for schools of nursing. Statement of the ProblemNursing personnel are consistently listed as one of the top ten occupations for work-related musculoskeletal disorders, with incidence rates of 8.8 per 100 in hospital settings and 13.5 per 100 in nursing home settings (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2002). These are considered to be low estimates, since underreporting of injuries in nursing is common (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 1999). Aggregated data on prevalence of back injury, compiled from over 80 studies, revealed an international worldwide point prevalence of approximately 17%, an annual prevalence of 40-50% and a lifetime prevalence of 35-80% (Hignett, 1996). While there has been a steady decline in the rates of most occupational injuries starting in 1992, work-related musculos...

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Evidence-Based Practices for Safe Patient Handling and Movement

Nelson

Baptiste

2006

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“…Studies comparing floor lifts with ceiling lifts report fewer caregiver musculoskeletal injuries with use of the ceiling lift (Engst, Chhokar, Miller, Tate, & Yassi, 2005; Ronald et al, 2002). Laboratory studies indicated that ceiling lifts require half the effort of floor lifts (Nelson, 2005).…”

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“…This was substantiated by a reduction in compensation costs. After installation of ceiling lifts, cost savings in terms of compensation costs alone are estimated to produce payback within 6 years (Engst et al; Spiegel et al, 2002). Additional benefits include fewer lost work days, less severe injuries, and greater productivity.…”

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Successful Implementation of Ceiling-Mounted Lift Systems

Weinel

2008

Rehabilitation Nursing

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“…Recently, Yassi et al (26) presented the logic behind integrating workplace resources across primary and secondary prevention approaches-a task which they described as "breaking down the solitudes". This proposal stemmed from the following observations: · An effective primary prevention initiative that was ergonomic in nature resulted not only in fewer injuries (primary prevention) in a hospital setting, but also in unexpectedly shorter durations of lost time after injury (secondary prevention) (27).…”

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Preventing injury, illness and disability at work

Frank¹,

Cullen²

2006

Scand J Work Environ Health

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This discussion paper is intended to start a dialogue about prevention among those who are interested in making workplaces safer and healthier. The following four key themes are presented to build a framework for further discussion and activity: theme 1 -with multiple causes for workplace injury, illness, and disability, preventing these problems requires multiple solutions, operating in synergy; theme 2 -efforts to reduce workplace injury, illness, and disability must build on both primary and secondary prevention approaches, merging these to create a more effective strategy; theme 3 -before which strategies work and which do not can be agreed upon, a shared understanding is needed of how the effectiveness of occupational health interventions should be evaluated; and theme 4 -building relationships between those who do research and those who use research knowledge is important if relevant research is to be produced that is readily taken up and applied to improve occupational health and safety.

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Effectiveness of Installing Overhead Ceiling Lifts

Cited by 57 publications

References 24 publications

Evidence-Based Practices for Safe Patient Handling and Movement

Evidence-Based Practices for Safe Patient Handling and Movement

Successful Implementation of Ceiling-Mounted Lift Systems

Preventing injury, illness and disability at work

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