Procuring Medical Equipment – a Perpetual Challenge

Infusion Options Inc. located in Brooklyn, New York is a medical equipment supply agency with hands on expertise in assistivetechnology that deals with the selection, location and utilization of assistive, adaptive, and rehabilitative devices for patients with disabilities and special medical needs.

Procuring the apposite medical equipment has been a perpetual challenge. This is simply due to the diversity of needs of every afflicted individual irrespective of the similarity of the medical condition.

The situation is most often complicated by comorbidity of other disease conditions that accompany a medical situation. Simple factors like height, weight, age, gender, economic and cognitive status of the individual play a vital role in deciding the right equipment.

Infusion Options Inc. medical equipment supply agencyaspiresto enable these patients to improve their quality of life by enhancing self-dependence or achieving faster recuperation and recovery.

The arsenal of the supply capability of the agency includes quality mobility devices such as manual and electrically driven wheel chairs supported by controls to manage motors and the ergonomics; patient transfer devicesthat facilitate the movement of patients by caregivers from beds, wheelchairs, commodes or toilets such as patient lifts for vertical transfer, transfer benches, stretcher or convertible chairs for lateral, supine transfer, sit-to-stand lifts for moving patients from one seated position to anotherand sliding boards for transfer from a bed to a wheelchair; walkers; prostheses and orthoses.

Infusion Options Inc. further offers a wide range of other support devices that includes medical oxygen services such as liquid oxygen, home oxygen concentrators, portable oxygen systems, oxygen saturation monitors, CPAP, Bi-PAP services, ventilators, nebulizers, feeding pumps, cough assists, compression pumps and bilirubin lights.

The agency stands apart with their 24×7 professional on call service.

 

Reference

  • C. Barrué. Personalization and Shared Autonomy in Assistive Technologies. Ph. Thesis. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. 2012
  • Scherer, Marcia; Stefano Federici (2012). Assistive Technology Assessment Handbook. CRC Press. p. 425. ISBN 9781439838655.