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ou know it's time to buy a new table when yours break dur-
ing a case. During a tubal ligation, there was a loud snap
and bam, the bed dropped a couple inches, severing the
electrical cord on a sequential compression device. The OR
team transferred the unharmed patient to another bed.
A few weeks earlier, staff at the Coffeyville (Kan.) Regional Medical
Center reported to the biomed department that the bed was groaning
and sticking when they elevated it. When someone checked it out, it
was working just fine. "Like when your car doesn't start and then you
go to the mechanic to get it checked out, it starts," says Teresa Barker,
RN, BSN, MBA, director of surgical services at Coffeyville.
Time to Buy a New Table?
Features that matter most when buying your next OR bed.
Dan O'Connor | Editor-in-Chief
• SLIDE TO THE LEFT Harriet Willoughby, BSN,
administrator and CEO of Gadsden (Ala.) Surgery
Center, likes the slide feature on her table.
