• Blog
  • Press and media
  • Careers
  • Investors
  • Login
  • English (United States)
  • Search
  • Insights
    • Acute care
      • Positive eight
    • Long-term care
      • Dementia care
      • Positive eight
    • Specialist areas
      • Patient handling
      • Pressure injury prevention
      • Early mobilization
      • Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) Prevention
      • Hygiene
    • Mobility gallery
      • Albert
      • Barbara
      • Carl
      • Doris
      • Emma
    • Customer stories
      • The will to win
  • Solutions
    • Work related injuries
      • Patient transfer solutions
    • Bariatric solutions
      • Bariatric patient handling
      • Bariatric pressure injury prevention
      • Bariatric bed
      • Bariatric Hygiene Care
      • Bariatric VTE prevention
    • Pressure injury prevention
    • Medical beds
    • VTE prevention
    • Disinfection
      • Sluice Room Planning
    • Programs
      • Diligent
      • ProAct
    • Services
      • Architects and planners
      • Product support
      • Rentals
  • Products
    • VTE prevention
      • VTE/DVT prevention pumps
      • VTE/DVT prevention garments
    • Hygiene
      • Bath systems
      • Hygiene Lifts
      • Shower systems
      • Burns treatment
    • Pressure ulcer prevention - PUP
      • Hybrid
      • Foam
      • Alternating Pressure
      • Incontinence
      • Skin IQ
      • Low Air Loss
    • Safe patient handling
      • Floor lifters
      • Slings
      • Standing and Raising Aid
      • Ceiling Lift
      • Supine to seated edge of bed
      • Lateral transfer and repositioning
      • Pool lifts
    • Diagnostics
    • Disinfection
      • Soiled utility room
      • Flusher disinfectors
      • Clean flusher range
    • Medical beds
      • Wellness & Relaxation
      • Treatment couches
      • Bedside furniture
      • ICU beds
      • Med surg beds
      • Stretchers and trolleys
      • Long term care beds
      • Bariatric beds
      • Critical care beds
  • Academy
  • About us
    • Our responsibility
      • Ethical business behavior
      • People and society
      • Environment
    • Investors
      • Reports & Presentations
      • Calendar
      • The share
      • Newsroom
      • Distribution & listing of Arjo
    • Corporate governance
      • Article of association
      • General meetings
      • Arjo management team
      • Nomination committee
      • Auditors
      • Board of Directors
      • Remuneration
      • Corporate governance reports
      • Policies
    • Our strategy
      • Our five focus areas
      • Our values
      • Financial targets
    • Legal
      • Web policy
      • Privacy policy
      • Terms of use
      • Cookies information
    • Our customers
    • Careers
      • Our culture
      • Working at Arjo
      • Meet our employees
    • Our history
      • Strong long-term leadership
      • Streamlining the Arjo Value Chain
      • Further expansion through integration
      • Stock market debut and acquisition by Getinge
      • Market leading innovations
      • Global expansion
      • Entrepreneurial spirit
    • Press and media
      • Newsroom
      • Subscribe
      • Media library
    • Blog
  • Contact us
    • Contact us
    • Arjo locations
  • Insights
  • Solutions
  • Products
  • Academy
  • About us
  • Contact us
Contact
  • English (United States)
  • Login
  • Blog
  • Press and media
  • Careers
  • Investors
  1. Home
  2. Arjo Blog

Blog

Subscription

Topic: COVID-19

×
World Thrombosis Day: Care for tomorrow, act today

October 13 2020

World Thrombosis Day: Care for tomorrow, act today

Arjo is committed to improving the lives of those affected by reduced mobility and age-related health challenges. In honor of World Thrombosis Day, we support and embrace efforts to raise global awareness of the potentially life threatening impact of thrombosis on many lives with our “eyes open to thrombosis” today and every day.
Read blog post
Has COVID-19 changed the way we do wound care? It should!

August 20 2020

Has COVID-19 changed the way we do wound care? It should!

Every day, we learn more as to how the novel coronavirus is impacting society with cases on the rise in numerous locations across the country. Our responsibilities, for our own safety and that of others, include: wear a mask, wash hands frequently, social distance, and stay home as much as possible, among others.
Read blog post
The bedside chair: can it offer therapeutic benefits?

July 22 2020

The bedside chair: can it offer therapeutic benefits?

Bedrest has many detrimental effects for our critically ill or immobile patients, including muscle weakness, cardiac atrophy, atelectasis, and increased risk of a pressure injury. The literature supports the benefits of an early mobility program.
Read blog post
Pressure injury: the silent killer of COVID-19 patients

July 15 2020

Pressure injury: the silent killer of COVID-19 patients

As a Registered Nurse, I think about all that is happening in our world today from what it was only months ago. Friends and colleagues have worked tirelessly on the frontlines to fight the pandemic that has changed our society and world in just a short time.
Read blog post
Pressure injuries: what you don't see can hurt you

July 9 2020

Pressure injuries: what you don't see can hurt you

Similar to other medical conditions such as high blood pressure or diabetes, what you don’t see can hurt you. Unfortunately, just because you can’t see symptoms or indicators, it doesn’t mean damage or harm isn’t being done.
Read blog post
COVID-19 and skin manifestations

June 26 2020

COVID-19 and skin manifestations

The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is affecting the whole world.1 As a result, there are many hospitalized patients and increased demands on the healthcare system.
Read blog post
COVID-19 and patient microclimate

June 17 2020

COVID-19 and patient microclimate

We are all living in an unprecedented time due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.
Read blog post
Staying focused: mobility is crucial even during a pandemic

June 9 2020

Staying focused: mobility is crucial even during a pandemic

Patient mobility, a critical factor in improving patient health, needs to be a high focus even during this unprecedented pandemic. Increasing mobility is important for hospitalized patients to help improve oxygenation, prevent hospital acquired conditions and speed rehabilitation.
Read blog post
Solutions to help prevent complications of COVID-19

June 4 2020

Solutions to help prevent complications of COVID-19

In this unprecedented time of the COVID-19 outbreak, many of us are finding it difficult to describe our thoughts about the coronavirus pandemic as we try to maintain some degree of normalcy in the safest way possible.
Read blog post
COVID-19 and VTE: Share an hour with a leading expert to learn more!

May 29 2020

COVID-19 and VTE: Share an hour with a leading expert to learn more!

Join us for our complimentary educational webinar with renowned expert and guest speaker, Dr. Joseph Caprini, MD, MS, FACS, RVT, DFSVS, to discuss “COVID-19: The Tangled Hemostatic Web Revisited” on Monday, June 1st at 10:00am CDT.
Read blog post
  • Previous
  • 1
  • 2
  • Next

Disclaimer

All information is provided in good faith – without warranty of any kind, express or implied – and any use of information or material contained herein is at the users’ sole risk. This blog is for information purposes only and shall not be construed as the giving of advice or making of any recommendation and the information should not be relied upon as the basis for any decision or action. The views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of Arjo.

Insights

 

Solutions

 

Products

Our services

  • Contact us
  • Our offices
  • Product support
  • Rentals
  • Architects & planners

About us

  • Press & Media
  • Blog
  • Careers
  • Investors
  • Academy

Arjo Inc.
2349 W. Lake Street, Suite 250
Addison, Illinois 60101
USA
Phone: +1 (800) 323 1245

At Arjo, we are committed to improving the everyday lives of people affected by reduced mobility and age-related health challenges. With products and solutions that ensure ergonomic patient handling, personal hygiene, disinfection, diagnostics, and the effective prevention of pressure injuries and venous thromboembolism, we help professionals across care environments to continually raise the standard of safe and dignified care. Everything we do, we do with people in mind.

© 2021 Arjo. All rights reserved Terms of use Privacy policy Web policy Cookies information

Getinge_Logo_hz_RGBGetinge_Logo_hz_RGB_neg