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Makes life easy for patient
and personnel.
Especially in dialysis treatment or the ICU,
many patients cannot be weighed while
standing or sitting. A mobile bed scale which
allows the patient to remain in bed while being
weighed is of enormous help. The patient
is spared the trouble of moving from bed to
scale and back again and medical personnel
are relieved of unnecessary physical exertion.
With patented lift mechanism,
limit and pre-TARE function.
The seca 984 makes it all very easy with a
patented lift mechanism that allows the user
to roll the load cells under the bed and secure
them there. All that’s required is the push of
a button and a lever. Thanks to the patented
mechanism, no effort is required. Just as help-
ful is the limit function which signals a change
in weight with an acoustic warning, making
it unnecessary for the user to monitor the
display continuously. The pre-TARE function
also simplies things: the weight stored in
memory (of the patient’s bed, for example)
can be deducted from the currently measured
weight, leaving only the patient’s body weight
in the display.
That is especially important in
the following clinical pictures:
If the patient’s condition involves high volumes
of uid such as in dialysis or uid losses as
seen in intensive care, the continuous meas-
uring by seca 984 is a great help. The body
should contain neither too little nor too much
water because either condition may have
dangerous consequences, e.g., dehydration
or hyperhydration.
The consequences
could be fatal:
When a patient is dehydrated, the amount of
water in the body decreases and the patient’s
weight along with it. The patient could suffer
a circulatory collapse or shock. In cases of
hyperhydration, the patient’s weight increases
due to unchecked uid retention. The con-
sequences range from headache to cramps,
edema and even death.
Clinical pictures with
dehydration:
• Severe loss of blood, e.g., as a
result of an accident
• Plasma lost and loss of interstitial
uid caused by severe burns
• Diarrhea
• Incessant vomiting
• Excessive transpiration through
the skin
Clinical pictures with
hyperhydration:
• Heart failure
• Cirrhosis
• Lung diseases
• Underactive thyroid
seca 984:
For dialysis facilities and intensive
care units.
T
he seca 984 is the mobile bed and dialysis scale by seca that is ideally
suited to monitoring patients’ weight changes. In intensive care units, for
example, early recognition of weight uctuations is vital since any change could
affect the health and life of the patient. Likewise in dialysis treatment facilities,
the seca 984 is essential for weight monitoring.
The patented lift mechanism permits placement of
the load cells without any effort.