1. The concept of medical furniture
Medical furniture refers to the furniture used for medical reception halls, consultation rooms, nursing centers, disposal rooms, pharmacy rooms, laboratories, wards, operating rooms and patient care, including hospital beds, row chairs, desks, consultation tables, physician chairs, Patient chair, screen, diagnosis bed, nurse desk, nurse desk, return consultation car, rescue car, treatment car, medicine delivery car, medical record car, liquid dispensing car, cart, movable side cabinet, return consultation car, glass medicine cabinet, Classification of medicine cabinets, open medicine cabinets, workbenches, laboratory benches, push cabinets, hospital beds, bedside cabinets, basin racks, infusion racks, companion sofa beds, guardrails, folding tables, conference chairs, chair brackets, etc. There are some special requirements in terms of cleanliness, ease of operation, hygiene and design to meet the special needs of specific groups of people. However, with the development of the times and the economy, we increasingly find that medical furniture is not only used for medical purposes, but also in various places such as disease prevention, health promotion, rehabilitation training, and nursing assistance for maintaining a healthy and happy life, such as disease control We can see these furnitures in centers, health centers, laboratories, scientific institutes, and even ordinary people’s homes. Therefore, we name this type of furniture as medical furniture, which is mainly used in the field of medical and health care and meets specific hygiene and operational requirements.
2. Characteristics of medical furniture
2.1 There are various types and materials of medical furniture
In terms of functions, hospitals can be divided into outpatient areas, administrative areas, logistics areas and inpatient areas. There are mainly reception hall, consultation room, waiting area, disposal room, pharmacy room, ward, operating room, laboratory, nursing center, supply center, waste room, baby-friendly area, dental department, laboratory and so on. The specific categories are office chairs, base cabinets, hanging cabinets, lockers, functional cabinets (tables), beds, nurse stations (tables), consultation beds (tables), waiting chairs, patient chairs, physician chairs, infusion chairs, activities Side cabinets, all kinds of medicine cabinets, return clinic cars, medical record cars and other furniture for medical functional purposes.
It can be seen that the furniture required by the hospital is actually a combination of office furniture, civil furniture, laboratory furniture, hotel furniture, public furniture and other categories, and the requirements for purchasing different types of furniture are also different.
Hospital furniture is not only rich in variety, but also presents the characteristics of multi-material combination. Hospital bed cabinets, medical office desks and chairs made of wood materials such as solid wood and planks; steel materials such as western medicine cabinets and drug racks; stone materials such as medical artificial stone basins used in outpatient areas; engineering plastics such as atomizing chairs, row seats, etc. According to the materials used in different furniture categories, the waiting room furniture is mainly made of various types of chairs, mainly steel materials and engineering plastics; pharmacies are divided into two types: Chinese and Western pharmacies, and the traditional Chinese medicine pharmacy is mainly made of wood. . Western medicine pharmacy furniture mainly includes medicine racks and medicine cabinets, mainly made of steel. The furniture in the ward is mainly hospital beds, bedside tables, etc., most of which are combined with steel and wood.
2.2 Medical furniture pays attention to quality and safety
Poorly designed furniture and unstable construction can lead to accidents. According to statistics from the United States alone, the overturned furniture caused serious casualties. The overturned drawer cabinets overturned 6 dead and 2000 injured; TV cabinets overturned 4 dead and 2300 injured; In Beijing, my country, there was also an accident in which a large cabinet overturned and crushed a child. This shows the importance of the safety of medical furniture. From the hospital’s point of view, when choosing safe medical furniture, attention should be paid to: (1) Stability – products with wider bottoms, a smooth touch to the ground, and no swaying; (2) Sturdy – thin furniture will be affected by gravity deformed. The joint part is easy to displace, causing it to sway during use. When the laminate is thin, it is easy to bend down, resulting in poor opening and closing of the cabinet door. Thin furniture is more likely to cause the breakage of wooden fences and cause serious accidents; (3) Dangerous traps – avoid sharp corners and sharp edges or some gaps and vacancies that are enough to cause injury, such as beds, bed ladders, and children’s physical energy. (4) Structure – there should be no cracks in all parts of the furniture, the joints should be tight, there should be no protruding screws, and nails should not be used in the joints, but a tongue-and-groove structure ; (5) Assembly – each part, including accessories, should be properly installed, the screws should be tightened, and switches and locks should be easy to use.
2.3 Medical furniture pays attention to green environmental protection
Green environmental protection is the primary criterion for hospital furniture procurement. Relevant experts said that all panels used in hospital furniture must be required to meet the requirements of green environmental protection, and no other harmful substances that are harmful to the human body can be released during use. Strictly speaking, environmentally friendly furniture is not only harmless to the human body and the environment during use, but also meets the requirements of environmental protection in the production process and recycling. The materials used in environmentally friendly furniture tend to be natural, and they do not contain harmful substances and do not release harmful gases. Even if it is no longer used, it will not become a burden on the environment, and it is easy to recycle and reuse.
The materials selected for environmentally friendly furniture should be energy-saving, low-polluting, and easy to recycle. It is reported that some rare metals such as nickel, pickaxe, aluminum and tin consume a lot of energy in the refining process. Extending the service life of the product and making the furniture more durable also reduces the energy consumption in reprocessing, which is relatively a condition for environmentally friendly furniture.
2.4 Medical furniture focuses on function and comfort
According to the different requirements of the hospital area, hospital furniture mainly includes outpatient furniture, laboratory furniture, restaurant furniture, office furniture, and waiting seats. Due to the particularity of the population served by the hospital, hospital furniture has the characteristics of strong functionality and high safety level. For example, in an infusion chair, an infusion rod needs to be installed on one side of the chair. At the same time, the patient needs to sit on the chair for a long time. The design of the seat cushion and back requires soft cushions, but moderate lying. It can be seen that hospital furniture is more comfortable. .
3. Professionally integrated medical furniture
Combining the characteristics of medical furniture, it can be seen that medical furniture is a cross-disciplinary industry, and it spans not only the two fields of furniture and hospitals.
Understanding hospital architecture is the foundation, so as to solve the functional and practical problems of furniture design and material selection. Civil furniture, hotel furniture, and office furniture are all furniture categories that are divided for specific groups of people and special usage patterns. Similarly, special groups of doctors and patients also have their special needs and ways of using furniture. For different medical processes, medical furniture has higher professional requirements. For example, in a space with a large flow of people, the selection of furniture materials requires a high degree of durability; special inspection departments require special corrosion-resistant materials; for the work content of doctors and nurses, cabinet storage requires special design and so on.
The space of the hospital actually contains various functional needs such as cleanliness, waiting, communication, and treatment. The furniture needs to cover different materials such as stainless steel, plate, software, steel and wood, and even the closest office furniture field is difficult to completely cover. Like interior decoration materials, furniture belongs to the end product, and the end product produced by Grace Medical is the most direct nerve contact for people to feel the environment. Not only can the layout of furniture help improve the medical workflow and the flow of people, and make the process of medical treatment humanized, but also through the matching with other elements such as interior shape, color, texture, etc., the “harmonious beauty” of the medical space can be presented. out for better comfort.
Post time: Oct-31-2022