Why don't dialysis chairs have tray tables for patients?

[RightSide]

Because I don't watch much TV, I'm bored stiff during my three hour (or longer) dialysis sessions.

I wanted to do some productive work instead.  But with my left hand immobilized (that's the arm my fistula is in), and without any place to rest a calculator and a textbook and a looseleaf notebook, there's no way to do that.  It won't stay put in my lap, and I can't hold it all with my right hand.

Why don't dialysis chairs have a swing-out table on which patients can rest books, calculators, laptop PCs, or anything else they desire?  Airline seats do; at least the ones that are just behind a bulkhead.

And is there some kind of easel or folding table I could buy that would fit those chairs?  (It seems difficult because of the trays on each arm of the chair that are where the nurses and techs place their own equipment.)

[Rerun]

A friend made me a study board for dialysis.  I'll take a picture for you.  It fits over the arms and up to me.  I can put a book on it etc...  I don't use it much because I can't get rid of it when I'm done and I hate to ask the techs to put it up for me.  If I try to put it on the floor it makes this huge noise and then I feel I need to wash it off with purex because it touched the floor. 

So, yes, I agree why don't they have some sort of tabel the swings over us. 

[tyefly]

the chairs that I have used have side tables...... but I am sure you can buy a small table  to use over your lap...... you know the kind that they serve breakfast in bed type........

[dwcrawford]

Interesting as I'm going this afternoon to look for exactly that same thing.  Kevin, our center head nurse and PA is looking too.  Laptop on legs gets really uncomfortable but he says so few people at mine use laptops.  Please post any links you find from google or whatever.  Would be so nice if I could be on laptop the whole 4 hours. 
Fighting with folks in IHD would make  the time fly.


Side shelves don't work (crick in your neck).  Breakfast tables are too small.  Bed Bath and Beyond if advertising something that might work.  I'm head there as soon as I have another cup of coffee.  Who the heck switch my mug for a cup?

[tyefly]

yea buddy.......

[Rerun]

Get the idea?  Just cut out of thin counter top I think.

[Xbandito]

Hmm whats up with you lot across the pond.....namely the D units, for over here we have like a bed table/tray that slides under the chair/bed. yes the nurses use it at first but after they hook you up, it's yours.
Little sketch....till I get a photo

[BigSky]

There are different little tables on the market made for laptops.  One could use one of them.

[Xbandito]

Doh wont let me add another pic to my post..but here is the sort of table we have

[monrein]

We had those adjustable tables too.  Our chairs had small side tables on both sides as well.  Each patient had a phone that sat on one side and the other was used to lay out the stuff for cannulation.  I found that to be enough space for all the stuff I took with me.  We also each had a big drawer to keep anything we wanted to leave there all the time.

[sullidog]

At my center if you ask the techs you need something to put something on they will clear one of those side tables off for you.
Troy

[Bub]

Heck-a-ma-doodle yes.  My center has only little fold down trays on the outside of the arms.  I would love one of those hospitial bed trays but none to be seen in my center. I have ask for them and was denied.

[dwcrawford]

Bigsky.... i like the one you posted.  Do you recall where you got the jpg?