Residents wearing TED hose - I'm puzzled!

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Hi! I have work at in long term care for the last 6 years (actually love it!). Recently the facility I work in has decided the residents will don their TED hose at bedtime and remove them in the morning.

This is counterintuitive to me. It's supposedly to avoid blood clots. None of the residents have issues with blood clots. All of them are up during the day - some in wheelchairs some ambulatory. All of them go to bed at night.

Does this make sense to anyone else?

Thanks for your input!

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2 minutes ago, golfdiva said:

Hi! I have work at in long term care for the last 6 years (actually love it!). Recently the facility I work in has decided the residents will don their TED hose at bedtime and remove them in the morning.

This is counterintuitive to me. It's supposedly to avoid blood clots. None of the residents have issues with blood clots. All of them are up during the day - some in wheelchairs some ambulatory. All of them go to bed at night.

Does this make sense to anyone else?

Thanks for your input!

Yes, it makes sense to me. It also sounds like a complete nightmare.

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Doesn't make sense to me. TED's are so hard to measure for the best fit and to put on correctly. So often they end up being tourniquets!

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Specializes in Psych, Corrections, Med-Surg, Ambulatory.

I did some agency work in an LTC facility where a resident was required to have TED hose on during the day. There may have been a rationale for it. However, when the CNA was carefully applying them, we both heard a sickening tearing noise and of course her skin was sheared. She really did have fragile skin to be putting TED hose on. I don't know if her clot risk was worth the skin damage.

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