An NHS nurse has been celebrated for his idea to prevent falls. The Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust praised Ivan Maglanque ...

and will begin use at the Cincinnati VA Hospital. While hospitals have installed bed monitors for those patients who are deemed fall risks, Patrick Baker said the smart socks would be linked to ...

We know that existing fall prevention measures ... by nurses based on the hospital's assessment tool. All patients enrolled in the study were provided with the socks until discharge or removal ...

Hospital patients experience hundreds of thousands of falls annually, with increased length of stay and care costs, according to The Joint Commission. A smart sock system significantly reduced ...

They are socks that are woven with a conductive yarn that can stream patient information to the nurses on that floor. ExploreMercy Health’s $200M Kings Mills Hospital nearing completion in ...

A new study led by nurses at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center involving 569 hospitalized patients found the use of a wireless sock monitoring ... and no other fall prevention ...

In Columbus, a hospital reduced falls to zero in a select group of patients by giving them smart socks that detected when they were getting up unassisted. The average fall rate at the hospital ...

If you look at the statistics one in four patients are people 65 and older,” Tesha Smith, injury prevention coordinator ... with their “smart sock.” It helps prevent falls and has special ...