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Bariatric care can offer safe solutions for showering and toileting with gentle and discreet handling that maintains patient dignity.
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The carer needs to feel confident that hygiene routines ensure dignified handling of the bariatric person in a safe working environment. This is particularly the case in wet, potentially slippery shower facilities. Solutions must also take into account the patient’s adipose tissue, which may be a complicating factor in handling and hygiene routines.
Having access to the right resources, such as Carmina combined bariatric commode and mobile shower chair – can open up possibilities to promote mobility for some patients rather than resorting to passive methods such as bedpans and bedbaths.
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Toileting
Albert, Barbara, Carl, Doris: these patients can use Carmina bedside commode chair, rather than a bedpan. The transfer method from bed to commode chair is chosen according to functional mobility level.
Emma: a bedpan is generally used.
Showering
Albert, Barbara, Carl: a mobile bariatric shower/commode chair such as Carmina provides a safe comfortable solution for these patients. The A-B groups can transfer to the shower chair independently or with the help of a walking aid. Patients in the C group are generally transferred using a mobile sling lifter.
Doris, Emma: mobility restrictions mean these patients are generally washed in bed.
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