I worked with a client who used a twitch switch successfully with the nursing facility's calls system.  The facility will have to provide their call system information to a vendor to adapt a twitch switch successfully.  However, as this client's disease progressed he used his eye gaze device to operate a remote controlled call system for his assigned nurse.

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On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Alisa Brownlee <xxxxxx@alsa-national.org> wrote:

Any suggestions for this writer?

Thanks

 

I am a nurse at a chronic care hospital and am currently caring for a woman with advancing ALS.  She has been using an EZ touch type of call bell, but is having an increasingly difficult time moving her head even the 2-3 mm needed to use it, especially when fatigued. She would be unable to use any puff/straw type of call bell because she is on a vent.  She is able to move her eyebrows vigorously at this time, but not much else.

 Do you have any information regarding more adaptive call bell systems that may be helpful for her?

     Thanks so much for any suggestions.

 

 

Alisa

 

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