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Patient
Mover
Dr Graham Creasey showing
Patient Mover patient
transfer system sold by Therafin
Corporation.
(Photos by George Pierce)
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Graham Creasey demonstrates a transfer
board for VA patients that was designed and developed by Dave Jaffe while at
the VA in Palo Alto. After many engineering iterations from the complex to
simple, affordable, functional, transparent for X-rays and lightweight, this
device is ubiquitous around the halls. When I was on my back last March in
Stanford emergency and had to be transferred from bed to board for C-spine
examination, it took 4 strong people and a lot of effort to-back to the bed.
Man, I can still feel the pain!
George Pierce
03/02/2011 -
12:07am
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Actually I believe it was a colleague of
David Jaffe, Eric Sabelman, who led the development of the board. As with most
good inventions, I am sure there was teamwork involved.
Graham
Creasey
03/02/2011 - 8:58am
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Yes, it was my colleague Eric Sabelman
who lead development of backboards at the Palo Alto VA Rehab R&D Center.
Here are some webpages that describe that effort:
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Dave Jaffe
03/02/2011 -
9:08am
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