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Sage Health Solutions Grows from Start-Up to Huge Success

Nelson Mandela once said:

Perhaps the most important inheritance of our new democratic South Africa has been the rebirth of the dignity of the individual – for without dignity, freedom has a bland taste.

NHS UK - National Health Services

Frail patients are staying in hospital longer than would otherwise be necessary because the care they need in the community is not available. This can prevent new patients being admitted and operations have been cancelled due to beds being taken up by patients who could leave hospital with proper care elsewhere. Long hospital stays reduce the chances elderly patients can be rehabilitated.

Patient Lift and turn hospital bed and companion

TIME, TECHNOLOGY, PASSION AND IDEAS HAS EVOLVED
LOOKING AT THE PICTURE OF MY LATE MOM WHO WAS A COMPTOSED PATIENT FOR 3 YEARS.
WE HAD THE HONOUR OF TAKING CARE OF HER.
A PICTURE SAYS A THOUSAND WORDS.
MOM LIED IN HER DOUBLE CONVENTIONAL BED.
DRESSED AND MATCHING PATIENT GOWN EMBROIDED BEDDING.
THOSE WERE THE DAYS WHEN LIFTING AND TURNING HER WAS BOTH STRESSFULL ON HER FRAIL BODY
AND THE BACKS OF BOTH MY SISTER AND I, AS WERE BOTH EXPERIENCING PREGNANCY DURING OUR
MOM ILLNESS.
HENCE I LOST MY BABY.

Here are 7 tips for reducing back injuries and back pain for Health Care

In this article let’s look at global ways to reduce the risk of back injury and increase good body management. In future articles you’ll discover the correct techniques for moving clients in their beds and the art of the Transfer. These topics form part of the Certificate III in Individual Support studies.

Did you know a major cause of back pain, back injuries, and manual handling injuries is
failure to take a break from the task?

Here are 7 tips for reducing back injuries and back pain for Health Care Workers:

Hospital Beds and suggested patient home care products

It is suggested when renting or purchasing a Hospital bed for home care, that you purchase a waterproof split mattress, fitted sheets custom made to fit the mattress, draw mac and draw sheet to protect the sheets from soiling, and a patient lift and turn sheet to protect the frail body of the patient and the back of the carer.

Patient Products for hospitals

PRICES ON QUOTATION REQUEST

Patient Hospital Gowns SMALL to XXXXXL with tie backs COLOURS BLUE and WHITE

Doctors coats SMALL to XXXL COLOUR WHITE SHORT or LONG SLEEVES

Lab Coats white specify size

Doctors Bed Couch Covers with straps

Doctors beds with and without face hole

Massage Beds with and without face hole

Patient Cover Sheets

Cotton Cellular Blankets

Pillows

Laundry Bags

Bunny Blankets Theatre Gowns JAGE GREEN SMALL to XXXXXL

Towels Bath Sheet

Towels BathTowel

Towels Hand

HOSPITAL BED, HYDRAULIC BED, MEDICAL BED, ELECTRIC BED, ELECTRIC HOSPITAL BED

At Sage Health Solutions, we assist families and patients on a daily basis to make the patient as comfortable as possible.

Sage Health Solutions Home Care Products

Sage Health can make the care of your loved ones simpler and dignified.

We dare to care

Home care made easy

Home nusring is becoming increasingly popular as costs associated with institutional care spiral foreve upwards.

With the correct equpipment, home nursing can become a more manageable task.

Sage Health Solutions have been supplying specialised equipment and consumables to the health and beautty industries for many years, and this experience is now available to those practising home care.

Patient home care.

We at Sage Health Solutions has the privilege to assists families when setting up a patient at home for home care.

It all starts with choosing the right hospital bed.

We offer a range of beds.

Sage Health Solutions Taps into a Global Sourcing Network

Started by two sisters in South Africa, a small provider of medical supplies accepts an invitation from its biggest customer to join an electronic sourcing platform – then sees the technology as an opportunity to enable growth on a global scale

By Robert J. Bowman

May / June 2014

Catheter Care

Catheterisation of patients is carried out mostly for the following reasons in terminal care:

• To relieve retention of urine
• A comatose patient
• To manage incontinence when no other means is practical

An indwelling urethral catheter is a foreign object to the body and therefor is may be associated with problems. Catheter care is aimed at optimizing patient comfort as well as limiting the complications of catherization.

General Care

Giving Medicines

There are 3 ‘rights’ always to be kept in mind when giving medicines:

RIGHT MEDICATION: RIGHT AMOUNT and RIGHT TIME
• Look at the label on the bottle or container
• Measure the amount correctly and put it into a small glass to prevent spills
• Medicines are given at regular times, before the effect of the previous dose wears off and before the symptom recurs

Patients experience a wide range of symptoms, some due to their disease, others caused by it treatment. Pain is one of the most distressing symptoms in palliative care, other distressing symptoms are:

Feeding, Mouth Care, Giving Medicines, Syringe Driver Care

Feeding

Food plays and important role in the care of your patient.

The diet may be full, light, soft or liquid depending on the condition of the patient.

A full diet is a normal diet.

A light diet is an easily digested diet avoiding indigestible foods.

Viz. cucumber, tough meats, fried and roasted foods and gas forming vegetables, e.g.

Cabbage, and very spicy foods.

A soft diet is a full or light diet, which has been mashed or minced to make chewing unnecessary.

Getting Patient in and Out of Bed, Chair and Car

Patient Antimicrobial Sitting Pillow

Helpless and weak patients may like to;

Sit out of bed in a chair or wheelchair

Get out of bed to use the commode

And need to get in and out of a car.

If your patient is not too tired, this may be an ideal time to walk him to the toilet.

Supported in a sitting position, the patient swings his legs over the side of the bed.

Positioning the Patient in bed

Adjustable Hospital bed

Dorsal recumbent:

Patient lies on his or her back with the head elevated by the back end of the hospital bed with one or two pillows.

Legs straight or knees lightly flexed with a supported pillow (Sage Health Solution Antimicrobial Wedge)

For complete relaxation and when carrying out some treatments.

Lateral:

Patient nursed on right or left side with one pillow or two pillows comfortably under the head.

Equipment and Accessories

Make the sick patient’s room as cheerful as possible. (With the assistance of SAGE HEALTH SOLUTIONS)

He may have to lie there all day, and boredom and despondency can soon settle in.

Avoid leaving him or her on his own for too long. Loneliness can be can be the most dressing aspect for the bedridden.

Place a table or similar near the bed for medicines, drinking water and perhaps a small bell he can ring if he needs attention, or a telephone. Give him a radio, or TV set, and a supply of newspapers, books or magazines.

The Bed

Prevention of Pressure Sore and Provision of Comfort

Hospital Bed with PVC covered Eggbox mattress

Pressure sores can be prevented with the exception of severe illness where the immune systems have broken down, for example, advanced cancer and AIDS.

Principles include:

Promotion of circulation especially by relieving pressure on, and massaging of pressure parts.

Pressure Care

Aim: To provide comfort and prevent pressure sores.

A pressure or bed sore is localised tissue damage caused by pressure to tissues devitalised by malnutrition and insensitivity.

Pressure reduces the blood supply to the soft tissue and skin in the areas.

Pressure parts: Pressure sores are inclined to form on pressure parts e.g. sacrum shoulder blades, spine, hips, heels, ankles, toes, elbows, ears.

Bed Bath of Patient

Patient Pack

During a bed bath the mouth and pressure parts are attended to; and soiled linen is changed.
(Sage Health Solution Patient Pack)

PURPOSE:

1) To cleanse the skin.

2) To freshen the patient, especially if he or she is hot and clammy. Also helps to reduce a raised temperature.

3) To soothe a restless patient and promote sleep.

4) To provide some diversion from a monotonous routine.

The Homecare Patient Pack

Guidelines for working with the Terminally ill

Be honest

Be real. Stay with the present and be down to earth.

Allow the patient to set the pace.

Keep the patient’s needs central to the decision that are taken.

Enable the family to get involved.

Allow the patient to review his or her life.

Encourage expressions of fears.

Understand and be sensitive to the emotional stages in the process of dying (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance).

Be kind, warm, patient, and gentle in approach.

Be ready to get support for yourself.

Giving Suppositories

Rectal suppositories are solid cone shaped pills usually made of cocoa butter or gelatin in which a drug is incorporated. They are inserted into the rectum (back passage) where they dissolve to perform the following functions:

1) Morphine – to relive pain

2) Diazepam – sedative and anti – convulsant action

3) Cyclizine (Valoid) 0 to relive nausea and vomiting