Safety: Moving Parts; Safety: Choking Hazard; Safety: Accessories Trays; Safety: Stability - Sunrise Medical Quickie Q700 M SEDEO ERGO Manual

2.3.3 Attendants
DANGER!
Make sure you heed all warnings and follow all
instructions in each section of this manual. Warnings that
apply to the user also apply to you.
1. Do not stand or sit on any portion of this seating
system.
2. You need to work with the user, and the user's doctor,
nurse or therapist, to develop safe methods best suited
to your abilities and those of the user.
3. To manually push the system you must release the
motor brakes.
• Do not engage or disengage motor brakes unless
power to the system is off.
• Make sure you have full control over the system when
you release the motor brakes. When you do so the
system will not have brakes.
• Make sure the system is on level ground before
you release the motor brakes.
4. Check to make sure push handle grips will not rotate or
slip off.
2.3.4 Attendant control
DANGER!
Make sure you always have comfortable access to the
controls while the chair is moving and make sure that the
controller is fixed securely to the chair.
1. Set the speed of the attendant control to a speed that
you can comfortably follow.
2. Always turn off the power to the controller when
leaving the user in the chair.

2.4 Safety: Moving parts

DANGER!
A wheelchair has moving and rotating parts. Contact with
moving parts may result in serious physical injury or damage
to the wheelchair. Contact with the moving parts of the
wheelchair should be avoided Fig. 2.5.
• Wheels (turning and caster)
• Power tilt in space adjustment
• Power seat lift option
• Power recline adjustment
• Swing-away bracket of the controller
• Power elevating legrest
Q700 M Ergo Seat
Fig. 2.5
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2.5 Safety: Choking hazard

DANGER!
This mobility aid uses small parts which under certain
circumstances may present a choking hazard to young
children.

2.6 Safety: Accessories Trays:

Safety: Vent tray
DANGER!
Using a vent tray will affect the stability and overall
weight of your wheelchair.
• Make sure that the batteries and the ventilator are
securely fastened to the tray before use.
• Familiarize yourself with the increased size of the
wheelchair before driving to prevent potential
collisions.
• When activating the recline backrest make sure that the
area around the vent tray is clear.
• Be aware that the vent tray assembly can cause a finger
trap hazard when the backrest is reclined.
• The vent tray is not designed to hold anything other
than the vent unit and its batteries, it is not designed to
hold an O2 bottle etc. Use of these items may cause
your wheelchair to become unstable.
• The vent tray must be installed and maintained by a
Sunrise Medical authorized dealer.
Safety: Swing away tray
DANGER!
• The maximum load allowed for the tray is 5.5 lbs
(2.5 kg).
• Do not overload the tray, this could cause the tray to
break or could cause the chair to become unstable.
• Do not leave lit cigarettes or other heat sources on the
tray as this could cause the tray to deform and mark.
• Ensure that all extremities and clothing are clear when
positioning the tray for use.

2.7 Safety: Stability

WARNING!
• Removing the batteries from the base, or moving the
seating system up or backwards, may decrease the
stability of the chair and it may tip backwards.
• Only remove the batteries while the chair is on the
ground.
• Do not remove the batteries while the chair is on a lift
table or on any other elevated surface.
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