DocumentCode
2083106
Title
Careful-Patient Mover Used for Patient Transfer in Hospital
Author
Wang, Hongbo ; Kasagami, Fumio
Author_Institution
DAIHEN Corp., Osaka
fYear
2007
fDate
23-27 May 2007
Firstpage
20
Lastpage
26
Abstract
This paper presents a Careful-Patient Mover used for patient transfer in hospital. Using this Careful-Patient Mover, the nurse can transfer the weak, injured or paralyzed patient from bed to stretcher or from stretcher to bed by oneself and the suffering, stress and uneasy feeling of the patient can be alleviated. This paper describes the purpose of development, design of mechanism and control system of the apparatus. A new servo system is used in this control system and its control principle and algorithm are proposed. The evaluation results of validation trials indicated the effectiveness of this system.
Keywords
biomedical equipment; hospitals; medical control systems; patient care; servomechanisms; careful-patient mover; control system; hospital; nurse; patient transfer; servo system; Accelerated aging; Accidents; Arm; Control systems; Hospitals; Pain; Road transportation; Servomechanisms; Stress; Wires;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Complex Medical Engineering, 2007. CME 2007. IEEE/ICME International Conference on
Conference_Location
Beijing
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-1077-4
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4244-1078-1
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICCME.2007.4381684
Filename
4381684
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