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Reduce the risk of urinary tract infections with hypotension and PUMP Wheelchair
At the door of his adult life – turning 22 in just 6 weeks, shortly before the end and then along the corridor with her boyfriend. You have completed all university programs and wait for the graduation ceremonies. They have a long life ahead of you! Then the unthinkable happens, you are invited to a graduation party and someone jumps, breaks the back of the head. The next thing I know, you’re in the hospital to say they are paralyzed by a spinal cord injury at C5 and C6.
What do you do? This is the story of Jim. Jim was “the guy”. He spent 16 months in a rehabilitation clinic, then went home to marry the woman he wanted was to get married before 16 months. Jim asked the question – what did you do? He said he complained a little ‘- then he came with his life. Boy ever! I could be an allegory of the whole of the successes of Jim – who are numerous, and are important. However, his greatest achievement (apart from a happy wife and a daughter in school, the monumental achievements in itself) the development of the pump empty the bag leg. As a quadriplegic, Jim knew how to fight urinary tract infections (UTI), was very important to drink plenty of water. But as a person with spinal cord injury, which could not be on the same toilet. He had a urine collection bag to collect the use, what his body could not contain. This is where the problem came on 22. I had to drink lots of water, but was unable to empty the urine collection bag alone. Can you imagine, or have personal knowledge of how humiliating it is, ask your doctor if a close relative, friend or spouse, the urine collection bag for you waste all the time? Jim knew firsthand what it is uncomfortable and humiliating for someone else empty the bag of urine collection was employed.
It ‘been very difficult and expensive, are a professional caregiver, if necessary could not find the bag of urine collection leg bag is empty. When he was home, and had his leg bag emptying urine collection, the call to his wife, and had come to give up their work tends to be the bag urine. When I was working, rely on employees to empty the leg bag. Of course, there was no one to empty – had to be trained. Jim remembers those days of shame. Jim and Robert, who are empty bag of the founders of the leg pump, and when they worked together for a big company communications pooled their heads to find a solution. They agreed that there is something to give to people with spinal cord injuries, the ability to handle this in your personal care with dignity. But was not there. The devices were then available only manual or electrical devices from the urine thrown the leg bag urine collection bag directly into the ground. Not hygienic or health to all! Therefore, the plan for the pump is born empty bag leg. In 2004, Jim and Robert have built a prototype of the leg bag is empty. As a quadriplegic, was no better than a qualified test PUMP Jim empty leg bag and tested. Well, no one more qualified to Jim and his wife. Jim told me that his wife had a role in the improvements that have been made – because while Jim sets out the improvements from the point of view of the pump user is required, the wife also discovered that changes were necessary for the good of adults (at night for easy cleaning, etc..)
Several versions of the pump after each more successful than the previous one – the end there is a simple, hygienic and civilized people with paraplegia or other injuries of the spinal cord of a bag of urine collection is empty completely without help. Jim has been with the empty leg bag PUMP 7 years – and it is here that freedom and independence – but most of all – has made possible all the water you need to drink to prevent urinary tract infections, and hypotension. When Jim started pumping 7 years, only had to empty the bag of urine 2-3 times a day. Now, empty the bag of urine 6-7 times a day – if it fits your time – and without the help of a caregiver.
What is the vacuum bag BOMB leg and what it does? The pump is a new innovative accessories electric wheelchair, a person who does the urine collection bag is empty directly into the toilet or urinal at the touch of a button. The first leg bag vacuum pump is connected to the leg bag and directs the flow of urine through the tip of a flexible stick. A simple change of each activated the pump on and off encounters and ultra-compact 12-volt lithium-polymer battery powers the pump free of charge with a maximum of 5 days with an overnight stay. PUMP quickly and easily installed in virtually any power wheelchair.
The first stage vacuum pump bag can not be easier. If the leg bag is full of urine, to maneuver the wheelchair in the length of the arm of a toilet or urinal, and extend the wand. Press the button twice to activate the unit and the urine flows from the bag of urine from the tip of the rod leg. If the urine leg bag is empty, press the button once to turn on the pump and the return of the magic wand position. That’s it. It ‘s simple, hygienic and civil. Jim is not only the leg with a bag of the vacuum pump. Others who have suffered quadriplegia and other spinal cord injuries, to discover its benefits. They glorify the praises of the pump, and how were their freedom and allows them to maintain adequate hydration, the number of urinary tract infections (UTI), and the risk of hypotension, reduced to obtain consent.