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  • Workplace Injuries

    The data is out and the EMS industry TRIR sits at 7.4, far above industry norm. (click source below). Another peer reviewed Study shows that lifting and transfers make up the majority of injuries in the EMS field.

    TRIR source 
  • Medical Waste

    For services who have disposable slider solutions, the Badger Skin pays for itself in the first month of the year. It also reduces supply chain complexity and reduces medical waste and environmental impact.

  • Slider Misuse

    Current slider options are employed after the patient is on the stretcher. In the frontline, this creates a barrier to slider use and sliders are rarely used. Badger Skin is a proactive solution which promotes slider use.

Why Badger Skin?

FAQ

What is a Badger Skin Patient Slider

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.

What Makes Badger Skin Unique?

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.

When do I use the Badger Skin?

The Badger Skin stays on the stretcher at all times. It is deployed proactively in order to ensure that every patient that needs a slider gets one. If your patient doesn't need it, no harm. It's sits silently out of the way and does not disturb regular patient transfers.

There are many patients where a slider could be beneficial but it is not used. Now that the Badger Skin is in place ahead of time, you look for every opportunity to use a slider.

Won't my patient Slide down the Stretcher?

No. Due to the patented harness design, and the anti-slip top coat, the badger skin is no different than the surface of the mattress.

Order a free trial sample and observe how the patient will not need to be repositioned once on the badger skin.

How does Badger Skin save Money?

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

How does Badger Skin improve Patient Experience?

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.

How does Badger Skin save the Environment?

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.

Badger Skin Improves...

Badger Skin Improves

Patient Care

Create a smoother EMS to Hospital bed transfer resulting in improved patient care.

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Badger Skin Improves

Medic Care

What once was a burdensome, dreaded task is now simple and light. Improve paramedic morale and reduce physical injury by implementing the Badger Skin reusable patient slider in your service.

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Enviro Care

Reduce medical waste by eliminating disposable patient sliders. Divert DUMPSTERS of medical waste from the landfill. It's time to start being more responsible about medical waste and reducing your carbon footprint.

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Fiscal Care

Save on major budget lines such as disposable slider purchase, and workman compensation claims.

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Built for the Frontline.

As an an active Paramedic and the founder of Badger Skin, I developed Badger Skin out of the necessity to protect my own back (and knees).

As caregivers we often forget to care about our own well being. Badger Skin is one more step I can take to protect myself from injury on the job.

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Pat. No. 63/622968

Badger Skin is a Patented Reusable Patient Slider for EMS Stretcher Applications.