Hospital beds and support surfaces are at the foundation of every hospital stay ... U.S. hospitals report more than 700,000 patient falls and 3 million pressure injuries due to prolonged bed rest.

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What Hospital Bed Rest Is Really Like. By Caitlin Bell. Updated on June 26, 2018 at 5:05 PM. Pexels/rawpixel.com Pexels/rawpixel.com.

One over-used practice of hospitals is bed rest. As a patient, one may think that it is helpful for our bodies to stay in bed during one’s hospital stay.

By the end of April, the four had five babies between them, born between four and 11 weeks early. Most entered the hospital in early to mid-March and left by the end of April.

They have also tended to shift the site of bed rest from the hospital to the home." Across the United States, prescription of bed rest is somewhat inconsistent, according to Dr. Maloni.

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Shona Moeller, 28 weeks pregnant, has spent the past six weeks on bed rest at a Chicago-area hospital awaiting the birth of her first child, a son.

That was true for Ayeisha Solomon who was on bed rest for two months of her third trimester. Doctors ordered the 39-year-old to stay in the hospital due to complications during her pregnancy.