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Taking a bedridden patient home: how to prepare

After a stroke, a fracture or major surgery the patient comes home unable to walk, and the family has a day to turn a flat into a ward. Prepare the bed, arrange the transport, and leave the hospital with everything you will need in the first week — without the summary, prescriptions and instructions, home care starts in panic.

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What to do right now

Prepare the space
A bed accessible from both sides, ideally an adjustable one — it can be rented. Anti-bedsore mattress, waterproof cover, bedside table within reach, a night light.
Collect from the hospital
Discharge summary, prescriptions, feeding and positioning instructions, a sick-leave certificate for the carer if needed. Ask how to handle a stoma, catheter or feeding tube.
Book the transport in advance
Tell the dispatcher the floor, whether there is a lift, the patient’s weight and whether oxygen is needed. The crew carries the patient up any staircase.
Buy for the first days
Incontinence pads, nappies, skin products, a drinking cup, a pulse oximeter, a blood-pressure monitor. Fill the prescriptions before discharge.
Arrange follow-up
A home visit from the district doctor, a community nurse, and our crew for injections, drips or catheter changes.

Call an ambulance if

Transport from hospital to home on a stretcher, carrying between floors
A patient on oxygen — oxygen during transport and a concentrator at home
First days at home: breathlessness, fever, pain, inability to eat or drink
Catheter or feeding-tube change, stoma care
Bedsores or persistent skin redness

What not to do

Do not transport a bedridden patient on the back seat of a car
Do not leave the summary and prescriptions at the hospital
Do not place the patient on an ordinary sofa — bedsores appear within two days
Do not attempt to carry someone downstairs without a stretcher

What the crew does

Collection from the ward, transfer to the stretcher, carrying down any number of floors
Oxygen and monitoring en route
Carrying up to the flat and placing in bed
Follow-up visits: injections, infusions, catheter, ECG, examination at home

This page is for information and does not replace a medical examination. If the condition worsens, call the crew: +7 (985) 887-82-52.

This page in Russian: Russian version.

Questions

How much does transport home from hospital cost in Moscow?

Call-out 6,000 ₽, transport 6,000 ₽ per each started 30 minutes inside the MKAD, stretcher 1,000 ₽ per floor without a lift. Typically 13,000–20,000 ₽ within the city.

Where do I get an adjustable bed and mattress?

Medical equipment rental — from a few thousand roubles a month. Some aids are provided free through social services after disability is registered, but that takes time.

Who will follow the patient at home?

The district doctor and specialists by home visit; acute situations and procedures — our crew.