How Does A Physical Therapist In The Water With A Patient Call For Help If There Is An Emergency?

How Does A Physical Therapist In The Water With A Patient Call For Help If There Is An Emergency?

If you are working with someone like a senior and you have an emergency you don't want to leave them and go and get help, especially if you are in the water wtih them. So what do you do?

We were recently contacted by a hospital that had a physical therapy services for seniors that consisted of working with them in the water. In the past if there were an emergency with the patient the physical therapist had a decision to make; leave the patient in the water and go for help or get the patient out of the water and take them with them to get to phone and call for help.





Assistive Technology Services is proud to be able to solve this problem. With our new Freedom Alert Medical Alert system the physical therapist is able to stay in the water with the patient and call for help from their waterproof pendant. Not only could they press a button and get help, they can also talk right through the pendant to the person answering the call. Now if there is an emergency all they have to do is press one button on the pendant and then speak to a security officer that will then send the help they need. All with the touch of a button and without having to leave the pool.





The Freedom Alert system is a NO MONTLY FEE system that will call the phone numbers that you progam into it. So it can call the front desk, a neighbor, the police or even 911 if you want it to.

SEE A FULL VIDEO REGARDING THIS SYSTEM HERE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3xPDyPJWO8

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Persons Found in Their Homes Helpless or Dead. How Can This Be Avoided?

Results The median age of the persons found helpless or dead was 73 years; 51 percent were women. Find out what can be done by reading this article.

The Social Safety Monitor is a concept that was developed from a need identified in an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine that reported the findings of a study examining occurrences of Persons Found in Their Homes Helpless or Dead. http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/334/26/1710

Results The median age of the persons found helpless or dead was 73 years; 51 percent were women. The frequency of such incidents increased sharply with age, from a rate of 3 per 1000 per year among those 60 to 64 years of age to 27 per 1000 per year among those 85 years of age or older. The total mortality was 67 percent for patients who were estimated to have been helpless for more than 72 hours, as compared with 12 percent for those who had been helpless for less than 1 hour.

The need identified was to develop systems that could provide “more frequent checks", for those people who live alone.

----- WHAT IS A SOCIAL SAFETY MONITOR?

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http://assistivetechnologyservices.com/medicalalertwithsocialsafety.aspx

Simply set an alarm in the unit to go off at a certain time each day. If the alarm is not turned off within 30 minutes this unit will begin to call the phone numbers that are programmed in it.

This will call and alert the people on the call list that the person being monitored has not turned off their alarm. This could indicate that there is a situation with the monitored person and assistance is needed.

This is the perfect feature to ensure that someone is ACTIVE EACH and EVERY DAY.

OTHER FEATURES: Store up to 6 telephone numbers for each type of emergency.

The wireless pendant can be used to activate the speakerphone for any incoming call.

Talkback - The unit will repeat (speak) each number as you program it during programming mode.

Caller ID - If you have caller ID service activated on your phone line, the dialer will announce all incoming caller's telephone numbers.

Social Safety Alarm - The unit can be set to alarm at the time you choose once a day. If the alarm is not turned off within 30 minutes, the unit will automatically begin calling the phone numbers you have listed. A pre-recorded personalized message alerts the person who answers that an emergency exists.

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Childcare Centers Have Options When It Comes To Security. Do You Know What One Option Is?

Assistive Technology Services continues to work with the elderly and children. There seems to be similar needs for both groups. One of the needs that we have worked on in the recent years is Childcare security.

There are many options to consider; cameras, door locks, alarms, etc.

The most immediate need is the ability for the employees to be able to notify EACH OTHER and EMERGENCY help at the same time in the event of an emergency.

What are some types of emergencies?

-A child was injured

-A child needs immediate medical attention

-A child was taken away

-A child is missing

-There is an intruder and a lockdown needs to take place

-There is a facility emergency such as a fire or tornado http://assistivetechnologyservices.com/BusinessEmergencyAlert.aspx

There are many situations that arise when an alert should be sounded and assistance called for. One solution that we offer is a wireless pendant that is carried by each employee.

The pendant when activated sounds an alarm (optionally flashing lights) and dials pre-programmed telephone numbers and delivers a personally recorded voice message.

This system is a very inexpensive solution for a serious need.

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