Badger Skin is a patent pending patient slider that is held in place by a harness system. Badger Skin is designed to be more permanently in place and ready to be used for every patient. It is a proactive solution for ensuring a patient slider is used on every possible patient who requires it.

Badger Skin is different than any other EMS patient slider currently available. It is reusable and installs in place with a unique harness system. Badger Skin (M2) is longer than all currently available sliders and has a lower coefficient of friction than all currently available sliders.

By using a proactive slider solution, you promote the use of a patient slider for every patient who may need it. Reactive slider solutions are only used after the patient is already loaded on the stretcher, making it difficult if not impossible to properly place the slider.

In a 1 year period, 1 reusable Badger Skin Patient Slider replaces approximately $1040 (1) of disposable patient sliders (not including garbage disposal). Badger Skin is a patient slider, which is shown to reduce healthcare worker back injury (Fratta et. al. 2020) thus reducing worker compensation claims.

1. Based on an average usage of 4 sliders per week at $4.99 each.

2. Fratta, K. A., Levy, M. J., Brothers, J. M., Baer, G. D., & Scharf, B. (2020). Occupational Injury Claims Related to Patient Lifting and Moving in a Safety-Oriented Emergency Medical Services Agency.Cureus,12(9), e10404. https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10404

From over 25 years experience in frontline patient care, the owner of Badger Skin has observed that the transfer from EMS stretcher to hospital bed is accompanied by grunts, groans and painful experience without a patient slider. By intentionally increasing the use of patient sliders, patient transfers are smoother and more comfortable for patients.

The current solution for EMS patient sliders involves disposable thick plastic sliders. In a 1 year period, it is estimated that 1 Badger Skin will save 25 - 50 large garbage bags of medical waste (approximately 1 dumpster). You can multiply this number across your fleet. This large amount of plastic and expense is diverted from the landfill and removed from production which reduces your EMS service carbon footprint.