Autor(es): Faria, N.M.S. ; Campilho, R.D.S.G. ; Silva, Francisco J. G. ; Ferreira, Luís Pinto
Data: 2021
Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/19668
Origem: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico do Porto
Assunto(s): Healthcare equipment; Finite element method; Hospital bed movement; Mechanical design; Structural optimization
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.
