Surgery Room Nurses Equipped Whistles for Emergency

News Health Articles - Surgery Room Nurses Equipped Whistles for Emergency. Electronics Bel considered less reliable to summon help in an emergency. Instead of looking for a more sophisticated solution, operating room nurses in the UK instead switched to a simple tool that is often used soccer referee and the traffic police whistle.

In an emergency, operating room nurses at Oxford University in England Hospitals often require the help of porters for example to move the equipment-heavy medical equipment. During this time, the call to the porter delivered through a kind of electronic bell.

But unfortunately, the bell was often escape the attention of the porter because her voice is too small. Light signals are also not visible, because sometimes the porter on guard in a location that is not possible to always see the emergency lights or hear the call bell.



"Use the bell as it is now actually been good, but sometimes we still have to leave the patient to call the porter. Fear us, when we leave the patient will die," lamented the nurses as quoted by the Mirror, Tuesday (11/29/2011).

Even so, the porters reportedly felt insulted by the use of a whistle to summon help in an emergency. If the bell is not effective to make an emergency call, then it should be looked for more sophisticated solutions and not even wear a whistle.

Complaints management is well understood by Oxford University Hospitals. The manager, Amanda Middleton promised in the near future will install a more sophisticated electronic bell at a price above 14,000 pounds, or about USD 198 million.

"For now, nurses still have a few options to summon help in an emergency and one of them is with a whistle. Whistles is very easy to use, effective and can be operated without depending on a particular technology," said Middleton.