Treatment Table

Treatment Table

This blog will outline the fundamentals and the importance of maintenance, TRH Services has for a treatment table in a clinical setting. TRH services ensures that all aspects of operation and safety are upheld by manufacturing standards as well Health Canada standards. These aspects are split into three major categories being; Electrical Safety, Operational Importance and Biohazard Prevention.

Electrical Safety:

During preventative maintenance testing TRH services ensures that the treatment table has no damage to the power cord or motor. We will check to make sure the unit is using a medical grade power cord. As a company, we use verified equipment to ensure that the treatment table is under the maximum leakage currents allowed, for patient safety purposes. We test to ensure the ground resistance to earth is below Health Canada standards and the motor is not drawing or exceeding the current limits during operation.

Operation Importance:

It is important to the client as well as the clinical engineer that a treatment table can provide maximum safety and operation to ensure best possible outcome to a patient. This can range from brake operation to Trendelenburg operation depending on the units model and function. We first check to ensure the unit can move from one position to another with ease and at full range of motion to manufacturing standards. We lubricate all washers and bolts to ensure no stiffening of joints occurs during operation.

Trendelenburg is an operation found in more advanced treatment tables that allow clinicians to place the patient in a position that elevates their feet above their head up to 30 degrees. This is just one example that would be completed during an operational test.

Other aspects of operational importance can be;

• Frame structure, which ensures no cracks, breaks and missing bolts/nuts are present to the treatment table.
• Frame Balance, ensuring that the treatment table cannot tip during use or at heightened operation.
• Ability of the treatment table to lift and lower with applied weight specified to the models manufacturing standards.
• No damage is present to the upholstery.

Biohazard Prevention:

This very important aspect covers the ability for clinical staff to be able to sterilize treatment tables properly after use by ensuring upholstery is not damaged or showing signs of wear. After long periods of movement on a treatment table the upholstery can start to wear down and split. This allows bacteria’s such as influenza to build underneath the upholstery and makes it very difficult for staff to sterilize.   TRH services ensures that treatment tables are maintained and repaired to prevent bacterial build ups in all sections that contain upholstery.

The TRH Value:

TRH services works on a large range of treatment tables in various clinical environments such as hospitals, physio/massage clinics, dental clinics, veterinary hospitals, research facilities and more.
Choosing TRH services will allow your establishment to provide safe and proper operational equipment.
We also provide onsite and offsite maintenance/repair across Ontario.

Equipment Supported:

Here is a brief list of some of the treatment beds that we support here at TRH Services

Written By: Sheldon Armstrong
Edited By: Tyler Hasenpflug CET