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Article: A cancer center's patient door hardware. (Case Study)
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- Doors and Hardware
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- May 1, 1991
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A Cancer Center's Patient Door Hardware
Hospital personnel have many unique needs. In addition to the obvious need to enter a patient room while carrying, pushing or rolling a patient, food tray or test equipment, there are many sanitary and even hygienic requirements. In the operating suites of most hospitals, the surgeon and other attendants scrub in a clean room and then proceed to the operating room with gloved hands held aloft. They are not permitted to touch doors or door hardware. Doors must be opened with other parts of the body or by someone else.
Special arm pulls were developed many years ago for use on patient room doors to meet the anatomical ...