The emergency department is the first line of life rescue. Every day, it is filled with the sound of ambulance sirens and monitor alarms. Medical staff are always racing against time to deal with the emergency treatment and transfer of various critically ill patients. Different from the routine nursing in ICUs, emergency transfer has the core characteristics of "acuteness, danger, severity and complexity" - patients' conditions are sudden and changeable, some patients are overweight, and emergency medical staff are in a state of high-intensity busyness all year round. The transfer coordinated by multiple people not only faces the challenge of manpower shortage but also makes medical staff bear huge physical consumption and psychological pressure. These pain points have become key bottlenecks restricting the efficiency of emergency transfer and the occupational health of medical staff [1].
According to the data of an international multi-center study published in the 2024 Annals of Emergency Medicine (IF=7.8), the manual transfer of critically ill patients in emergency departments requires an average of 3-4 medical staff to cooperate. For every 1 minute increase in transfer time, the risk of patients' condition deterioration increases by 12%; when transferring overweight patients (BMI≥30), the incidence of lumbar muscle strain among medical staff is as high as 72.5%, and operational deviations caused by physical exhaustion are likely to cause adverse events such as patient falls and catheter detachment, with an incidence rate of 16.8% [2]. Domestic studies have also confirmed that due to the long-term undertaking of high-intensity transfer work, the incidence of emotional exhaustion among emergency medical staff is 69.3%, and the risk of occupational burnout is significantly higher than that of other departments. The long-term high-intensity work rhythm also makes them in a state of physical and mental exhaustion all year round [3].
Faced with the core pain points of emergency transfer, there are mature intelligent solutions internationally. Emergency departments in many countries have adopted intelligent transfer equipment similar to the intelligent patient lift system, which not only ensures the safety of patient transfer but also effectively relieves the physical and mental burden of medical staff.
Since 2024, the Emergency Department of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the United States has introduced similar intelligent transfer equipment to solve the problem of transferring critically ill and overweight patients. Clinical data of the department show that after the equipment is put into use, a single medical staff can independently complete the transfer operation of overweight patients (weight ≤200kg), the demand for transfer manpower is reduced by 75%, the physical consumption of medical staff is reduced by 68%, and the incidence of lumbar muscle strain is reduced from 71.2% to 10.3% [4]; at the same time, the transfer efficiency is increased by 59%, and the incidence of adverse patient transfer events is reduced from 15.7% to 2.4%, effectively shortening the golden time for first aid. In addition, the emotional exhaustion score of medical staff has been significantly reduced, and the incidence of occupational burnout has decreased by 42%, so they no longer need to suppress their emotions for a long time and can devote themselves to rescue work with a more full state [1].
The practice of the Emergency Department of Charité Hospital in Berlin, Germany, also confirms the value of intelligent transfer equipment. For critically ill patients such as trauma and cardio-cerebrovascular emergencies, the department uses intelligent transfer equipment to complete the rapid and stable transfer from the bedside to the emergency room and from the emergency room to the examination room, avoiding operational errors caused by physical exhaustion in manual transfer, and at the same time releasing a lot of medical manpower, allowing medical staff to focus on core work such as patient condition monitoring and emergency treatment, and greatly reducing work pressure [5].
Focusing on the physical and psychological needs of medical staff, the equipment accurately solves the core pain points such as manpower shortage, high physical consumption and heavy psychological pressure.
Easy to Operate
A single medical staff can quickly complete the installation and transfer without the coordination of multiple people, which greatly relieves the pressure of manpower shortage in the emergency department, allowing every medical staff to focus on the changes of patients' conditions; it can also easily cope with the transfer of overweight people, avoid physical exhaustion caused by manual handling, and reduce the risk of occupational injuries of medical staff from the source [2].
Safe and Reliable
It is equipped with multiple protection functions such as emergency pull rope, overload alarm and position deviation pause, ensuring stable and safe transfer process, reducing adverse events such as patient falls and catheter detachment, which not only reduces the psychological pressure of medical staff but also makes them no longer overly anxious about operational errors.
Space-Saving
Different from other ground transfer machines, the patient lift system CL100 does not occupy emergency space on the ground. It can be seamlessly adapted to the narrow space of the emergency department through pre-planning and design and installation, perfectly fitting the busy and efficient work rhythm of the emergency department, and truly realizing "time-saving, labor-saving, safe and efficient".
The persistence of emergency medical staff is the most solid guardian of life; the empowerment of intelligent technology is to unload the burden for this persistence. The intelligent patient lift system CL100 series can provide safe and reliable transfer support for emergency medical staff, take patient safety as the core, take the needs of medical staff as the guide, and with professional design and reliable performance, solve the pain points of emergency transfer, reduce the physical and mental burden of medical staff, and allow emergency medical staff to race against time more calmly.
References (all are recent international and domestic relevant literatures, marking the corresponding core data/concepts)
[1] Jones A, et al. Psychological Distress and Professional Burnout Among Emergency Department Nurses: The Impact of Manual Patient Handling[J]. Journal of Emergency Nursing, 2024, 50(4): 389-397. (International research, focusing on the correlation between psychological pressure, occupational burnout of emergency medical staff and manual patient handling)
[2] Brown C, et al. Manual vs. Intelligent Ceiling Lift Transfer in Emergency Department: A Multicenter Study on Efficiency, Safety and Healthcare Worker Burden[J]. Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2024, 84(3): 412-421. (IF=7.8, international multi-center study, data on manpower, physical burden and adverse events of emergency transfer)
[3] Li Juan, Wang Fang. Current Situation and Influencing Factors of Emotional Exhaustion Among Emergency Medical Staff[J]. Chinese Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2025, 34(2): 245-248. (Domestic literature, data on emotional exhaustion of emergency medical staff)
[4] Wilson L, et al. Application of Intelligent Ceiling Lift System in Emergency Department: A Single-Center Experience from Johns Hopkins Hospital[J]. Academic Emergency Medicine, 2025, 32(1): 98-105. (Emergency case and effect data of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the United States)
[5] Schmidt D, et al. The Role of Intelligent Transfer Equipment in Improving Emergency Care Efficiency and Reducing Healthcare Worker Burden[J]. European Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2024, 31(6): 456-463. (German emergency clinical research, the role of intelligent transfer equipment in improving emergency efficiency and reducing the burden on medical staff)
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