Editing Assistive technology (section)

=== Transfer devices ===
{{Main|Patient lift}}
Patient transfer devices generally allow patients with impaired mobility to be moved by caregivers between beds, wheelchairs, commodes, toilets, chairs, stretchers, shower benches, automobiles, swimming pools, and other patient support systems (i.e., radiology, surgical, or examining tables).

The most common devices are [[transfer bench]]es, stretcher or convertible chairs (for lateral, supine transfer), sit-to-stand lifts (for moving patients from one seated position to another i.e., from wheelchairs to commodes), air bearing inflatable mattresses (for supine transfer i.e., transfer from a gurney to an operating room table),  [[gait belt]]s (or transfer belt) and a slider board (or transfer board), usually used for transfer from a bed to a wheelchair or from a bed to an operating table.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Doyle|first1=Glynda Rees|last2=McCutcheon|first2=Jodie Anita|date=2015-11-23|chapter=3.2 Body Mechanics|url=https://opentextbc.ca/clinicalskills/chapter/3-2-body-mechanics/|title=Clinical Procedures for Safer Patient Care |language=en}}</ref> Highly dependent patients who cannot assist their caregiver in moving them often require a [[patient lift]] (a floor or ceiling-suspended sling lift) which though invented in 1955 and in common use since the early 1960s is still considered the state-of-the-art transfer device by OSHA and the American Nursing Association.