Viewing distance determines how high a monitor should be. A screen a nurse reads at the bedside belongs at one level; a screen glanced at from the door of a bay, or across a four-bed area, belongs considerably higher. A fixed stand serves one of those and compromises the other. Three hundred millimetres of travel covers both from a single reference, which is the argument for accepting the extra kilogram rather than ordering two different stands.
The ceiling is the notable figure. Reaching 1125 mm puts a display above bed rails, above a drip stand and above the heads of anyone working at the bedside, which matters in a bay where the monitor is watched from a distance rather than attended constantly. Few stands published here go anywhere near it, and none of the fixed references come close. At the low end, 825 mm remains a standing figure, so this height-adjustable monitor trolley is not intended for seated observation and does not pretend to be.
Changing from a round base to a five-star pedestal is a genuine trade rather than a detail. A circle turns anywhere and presents nothing to catch, which the fixed references exploit. Five legs across 480 mm distribute load more evenly beneath a column carrying a screen at 1125 mm, which is the more relevant property once height enters the picture.
Medigear.uk confirms the hole spacing, the means of fastening a monitor down, and the gas spring rating before this stand reaches a clinical area.



