Posted By Bill Elliott
Does anyone out there have a tried an tested system for uniquely identifying slings used for patient hoisting. I am particularly interested in a means of marking that will withstand laundering and will not affect the integrity of the slings and will link the slings to the hoists that they can be used on, bearing in mind that not all slings will work on all hoists.

Posted By Saracen11
Hi Bill. All slings have laundry proof labels attached - this will identify the sling itself, prompting the staff to marry it up with the correct type of hoist - a training issue? If the labels have degraded to the point of being illegible, I suspect you need to revise your cleaning regimes i.e. temperature and detergents as the slings would have been designed to withstand these actions.

To answer your question though, in my experience, the loops and stitching on slings is colour coded e.g. small/medium/large = green/red/blue... so any other means of identification shouldn't be necessary?

Regards

Posted By J Knight
Hi Folks,

Very interested in all this; we have a similar problem and the best we've come up with is marking with an indelible pen. Does Arjo's system compromise tissue viability at all? All the tags we've seen so far have been scratchy, which is an absolute non-starter for us in our field,

John