Ergonomics Design of Healthcare NFC-based System

Davčev, Danco; Jakimovski, Goran

doi:10.1016/j.promfg.2015.07.770

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“…Currently, research works on the design of movingaid systems in the healthcare field are extremely scarce, and all the found information focuses essentially on the ergonomics and standardization of equipment for the safety of healthcare professionals and patients [9,10]. Previous studies [11,12] showed that, in a hospital environment, as in any other environment, the equipment must be used with care.…”

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Concept and design of automated moving device for healthcare equipment

Faria¹,

D.S.G.²,

Silva³

et al. 2021

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The physical wear of health professionals arises mainly from the movement of people with reduced mobility, transport of stretchers, hospital beds and hospital carts. There is a lack of equipment that helps these professionals to move patients in hospital beds or stretchers. This work aims to design an equipment that removes health professionals' function of moving patients from beds to stretchers, being able to move patients around the hospital in a bed. Added to this challenge was the diversification of models of hospital beds, making it necessary for the equipment to adapt to all beds. The design process included several finite element method analyses to validate the structure, and also a structural optimization, to reduce costs and reduce the weight of the equipment. This work successfully designed an optimized automated solution that can improve working conditions in the healthcare industry.

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