The objective of a comprehensive patient transfer safety program is to get all personnel responsible for patient handling on the same page, executing the best practices for safe patient transfers. All staff are trained in the manual Balance Pivot transfer
After training many tens of thousands of caregivers its hard not to conclude that patient transfer training is a lost art. There are 14 transfer techniques. Most use the Balance Pivot because it reduces the force required to transfer the
Balance Pivot reduces the patient transfer load by 90%. In a recent transfer demonstration a spring scale was used to record the force required to transfer the patient. The transfer load works out to around 10% of the patients