A Comprehensive Framework for Ergonomic Evaluation of Patient Handling Jobs in Healthcare Systems

Kumar, Sanjeet; Ray, Pradip Kumar

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-5631-4_8

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“…We also indicate works in which motion measurements and analyses were conducted, such as [ 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 ]. One of the tasks of manual patient transport presented in [ 15 ] is lifting the patient from a lying position to a sitting position on the edge of the bed. In the study [ 16 ] an eighty-kilogram patient dummy was used to analyze the lifting operation.…”

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“…In the work [ 15 ], a dummy was used for the exercises, which, as a rigid body, does not fully reflect the mechanics of the human body in the context of joint movement and muscle tension. In this work, instead of using a human dummy when simulating lifting patients, full measurements of the real person being lifted were recorded for the analysis of the patient’s kinetic and kinematic data.…”

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People Lifting Patterns—A Reference Dataset for Practitioners

Kluwak

Klempous

Chaczko

et al. 2021

Sensors

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Many health professionals do not use correct person transfer techniques in their daily practice. This results in damage to the paraspinal musculature over time, resulting in lower back pain and injuries. In this work, we propose an approach for the accurate multimodal measurement of people lifting and related motion patterns for ergonomic education regarding the application of correct patient transfer techniques. Several examples of person lifting were recorded and processed through accurate instrumentation and the well-defined measurements of kinematics, kinetics, surface electromyography of muscles as well as multicamera video. This resulted in a complete measurement protocol and unique reference datasets of correct and incorrect lifting schemes for caregivers and patients. This understanding of multimodal motion patterns provides insights for further independent investigations.

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