Title :
A development of force distribution measurement system around greater trochanter under pelvic belt
Author :
Shimizu, Yusuke ; Nagamune, Kouki ; Oe, Kesuke ; Sangyang, Lee ; Nikura, Takahiro ; Kuroda, Ryosuke ; Kurosaka, Masahiro
Author_Institution :
Grad. Sch. of Eng., Univ. of Fukui, Fukui, Japan
Abstract :
A pelvic belt is a tool of first aid for the pelvic fracture patients. This belt can stabilize the unstable pelvis and control bleeding from the arteries and organs inside the pelvis. The purpose of this study is to develop an evaluation system for the pelvic belt. Especially we evaluate the press around the greater trochanter under the pelvic belt. It has been reported that a pressure by tightening the belt increases the risk of tissue damage with pelvic belt. A mechanism which decreases the pressure of the tightening is required. We performed experiments that recorded pressure around the greater trochanter of right and left when subjects turned body. As a result, we confirmed that the pressure of the ipsilateral greater trochanter of the direction tends to increase with the same direction of subject turned.
Keywords :
biomechanics; biomedical equipment; bone; force measurement; orthopaedics; arteries; force distribution measurement system; greater trochanter; ipsilateral; organs; pelvic belt; pelvic fracture patients; tissue damage; Belts; Calibration; Force; Interpolation; Pelvis; Tissue damage; Voltage measurement; greater trochanter; pelvic belt; pressure sensor;
Conference_Titel :
Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems (SCIS), 2014 Joint 7th International Conference on and Advanced Intelligent Systems (ISIS), 15th International Symposium on
DOI :
10.1109/SCIS-ISIS.2014.7044720