Medical Castors For Hospitals And Institutions

By Author: Louise Horne
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The last thing you want as a patient in hospital is a bed that is too high off the ground, making it extremely uncomfortable every time you move in and out of bed! You also need your hospital bed to manoeuvre smoothly through the wards and operating theatres, and not be a bone shaker! From an institutions point of view they need bed castors that are durable, yet non marking. Durability is important as the castors and wheels are exposed to heavy wear and tear, chemicals and heat from the cleaning processes. The non marking property of medical castors is also an important consideration as they don't want streaks all over their hospital floors. So ensuring bed castors meet all of the needs of comfort, durability, hygiene and safety is often a tall order. Not for medical castors!

Medical castors come in a wide range of designs, but their main features benefit from a protected castor housing, which ensures the castors can withstand wear and tear and even regular cleaning at high temperatures. Medical castors also come in a range of heights, suitable for a variety of hospital bed designs. Whether twin wheel or singular wheel ...
... varieties, medical castors often have sealed bearings and dust guards to prolong the life of the castor and protect the internal bearings and workings. The foot brakes have also been specially designed to be easily locked, again to ensure the ease of use and practicality of the bed castors. Hospital staff, porters and nurses have been included in the thoughts behind the design of medical castors to ensure the castors are practical and easy to use. As a result medical castors have been a popular choice for hospital bed manufacturers and have won a number of awards for their form and functionality.

Its not only beds that require medical castors, but also a range of medical equipment, from MRI scanners and x ray machinery to every day trolleys that move medicines, equipment and even food around the institutions. All these require medical castors suited to an institutional environment. These medical castors can withstand temperature, cleaning, friction, chemicals and wear and tear. Other challenging environments for institutional castors are operating theatres. In such clean, hygienic surroundings, with sensitive equipment, antistatic medical castors are often used. These electrically conductive castors ensure the safety of the sensitive equipment by absorbing any electric charge. Anti static or electrically conductive castors are instantly recognisable by the yellow dot on the wheel or castor housing.

For less demanding environments within institutions such as care homes, schools and colleges, there are a range of castors that may suit the job. There is still furniture and equipment that needs to be moved to ensure the smooth running of these institutions. Popular choices tend to be either polypropylene or rubber wheels, and these institutional castors have the flexibility of having either a bolt hole fitting, to be attached into tubular legs, or a square top plate fitting. So for demanding environments such as hospitals, operating theatres and institutions, medical castors have been the wheels these large organisations are depending upon!

Castors have been our primary business for the last 40 years. Our Blue Elastic Rubber Castors & Wheels are utilised in a wide variety of industries, along with our Tube Fittings and Adjustable Feet. Whether you are a hospital requiring a Medical Castor such as Non Marking Rubber Castor, shop fitters wanting a Plastic Castor, food manufacturers requiring Heat Resistant Castors, a theatre requesting a Scene Shifter or a garden centre looking for Garden Equipment Castors we can meet all your need!We sell a range of castors for different applications, including industrial and retail areas. Please visit our website at http://www.rosshandling.co.uk for further information.