September 4, 2016

Hospital Noise: Textured Floors

INTRO / SUMMARY
Watch this article as a video

Textured floors may look nice, but in hospitals they are quite loud (and bumpy) when moving a stretcher over them.

This video compares the sound of a relatively new & expensive stretcher over a brick floor vs flat vinyl.

The transport would have been louder if IV poles and a ventilator accompanied it.

Some may argue that parts of the hospital are 'off limits' to stretchers; that stretchers should take routes not in public areas (where one may find textured floors). However, in practice codes are called everywhere within the hospital.

Subscribe for updates

Get an email update from time to time.
Subscribe