Chrome User Manual | Product Description
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Product Description
The Chrome manually propelled wheelchair is a sleek
lightweight design suitable for a wide of users whose
mobility has been reduced or removed by a disability
or chronic illness for whom lightweight and easy
independent transportability are key. Such suitability
can vary from a temporary to a permanent disability
depending upon the type of restrictive impairment.
The Chrome is available in two tube specications
allowing a greater range of footrest options delivering
a lightweight and versatile chair. Two frame design
options are available either open frame or closed frame
design, delivering a lightweight and versatile chair The
design incorporates a chrome moly frame, adjustable
camber bar, adjustable height footrest, scissor or
push to lock brakes, adjustable tension seat sling and
backrest and calf strap all as standard, with further
options available.
The design ergonomically accommodates a wide range
of disabilities for all ages of user up to a maximum user
weight of 125kg.
Suitability is dependent upon the degree and nature of
disability and must be determined through a thorough
client risk assessment carried out by a qualied medical
professional or RGK personnel. This wheelchair is
suitable for a means of transfer from one location to
another where physical mobility is impaired or reduced
and is not designed for any other purpose.
Consideration must be given at point of prescription
to required usage with regard to the capabilities of the
user and the environment and terrain on which the
product will be used.
The Chrome, manufactured by RGK Wheelchairs Ltd,
is placed on the EU market, CE marked, as a Class
1 Medical Device and complies with the Essential
Requirements of the Medical Device Directive 93/42/
EEC.
By denition all wheelchairs are marketed as a medical
device where a“medical device”* means an instrument,
apparatus, appliance, material or other article, whether
used alone or in combination, together with any
software necessary for its proper application, which-
(a) is intended by the manufacturer to be used for
human beings for the purpose of-
(i) diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, treatment or
alleviation of disease,
(ii) diagnosis, monitoring, treatment, alleviation of or
compensation for an injury or handicap,
(iii) investigation, replacement or modication of the
anatomy or of a physiological process, or
(iv) control of conception; and
(b) does not achieve its principal intended action
in or on the human body by pharmacological,
immunological or metabolic means, even if it is assisted
in its function by such means.
* denition taken from the Medical Devices Directive
RGK Chrome Manual
Propelled Wheelchair
