Select a community
ALS including PLS and PMA
Find out more about the PatientsLikeMe
ALS Community
Home > Community Treatment Reports > Hospital Bed Treatment Report

See More Treatments

See all treatments in the PatientsLikeMe system shared by patients just like you.


Hospital Bed Treatment Report

Brand Names: Electronic Hospital Bed, Tempur-Pedic sleep system, Hospital Bed w/trapeze, Invacare airflow turn-q plus, Invacare with a low air loss mattress, Transfer Master, Parlup, Craftmatic Adjustable Bed, Bio-Flow, SAT Mattress, Serta Electric

What is Hospital Bed? Hospital Bed is being taken by members of the PatientsLikeMe community. Share what you know about Hospital Bed in our forum.

Contribute

Reasons used

167 patients in the community are using or have used Hospital Bed.

Top 10 (Show all)

Duration

How long current patients have been using Hospital Bed or how long patients were using Hospital Bed before stopping.

How Long Current Patients Have Been Using Hospital Bed

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
1
8
2
20
24
25

How Long Patients Used Before Stopping

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
1
0
1
2
0
0
Why Patients Stopped Using (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Other 3 75% Other: 75%
Did not seem to work 1 25% Did not seem to work: 25%
Expense 1 25% Expense: 25%

Patient Reported Evaluations

Results from 15 patient evaluations. See the overall results and all individual evaluations.

Efficacy (Effect based on reason taken)

Major 33% 1
Moderate 33% 1
Can't tell 33% 1

Other

Side-effects (as an overall problem)

Severe 0% 0
Moderate 13% 2
Mild 0% 0
None 87% 13

Top reported side-effects include: Back pain, Neck Pain, Application uncomfortable

Summary results are based on 15 individual responses. For more information, see overall results for Adherence, Burden and Cost.

Individual Patient Reported Evaluations (2 of 15)

  • gailHD
    Sex: F
    Mouth/throat: moderate
    Arms: severe
    Chest: none
    Legs: severe
  • gailHD
  • by gailHD
    Aug 28, 2008
  • EfficacyModerate
  • Side-effectsNone
  • Other

  • jr42
    Sex: M
    Mouth/throat: none
    Arms: moderate
    Chest: none
    Legs: mild
    Type: Lower Motor Neuron
  • jr42
  • by jr42
    Oct 27, 2008
  • EfficacyModerate
  • Side-effectsNone
  • Weakness/slowness (asthenia)

See all evaluation results for Hospital Bed

Report created on November 07, 2009.