MURAGAKI Yoshihiro
   Department   School of Medicine(Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital), School of Medicine
   Position   Visiting Professor
Language English
Title Current situation survey and future work concerning fall prevention sensor system
Conference The 11th Quadrennial Congress of The World Federation of Neuroscience Nurses - WFNN Congress 2013
Conference Type International society and overseas society
Presentation Type Poster notice
Lecture Type General
Publisher and common publisher◎YOSHIMURA Katsumi, SUZUKI Takashi, OKAMOTO Jun, OHKUMA Atoyo, MURAGAKI Yoshihiro, ISEKI Hiroshi, KAWANO Yoshiko
Date 2013/09/15
Venue
(city and name of the country)
Gifu
Holding period 2013/09/13~2013/09/16
Society abstract The 11th Quadrennial Congress of The World Federation of Neuroscience Nurses - WFNN Congress 2013 abstracts 126
Summary Fall of in-hospital patient is a serious problem]) because it has risk of severe impairment or death. Especially in a neurosurgical ward, many of post-operative patients are with decreased level of consciousness, so that they have higher risk of fall. Although straitjacket sometimes is adopted, it abuses human rights, and alarm system is installed to notify the nurses of patient's risky motion. Alarm system consists of sensor and nurse call bell. When the patient gets to sitting-up position, the sensor detects it, and nurse call bell system notifies the nurse of the situation. Then, a nurse rushes to the patient's room to see the patient, and sometimes lays the patient on the bed. As the alarm system is, however, not perfect and often has false-positive detect