05-07-2012, 10:54 AM
Design of a Trolley cum Wheelchair for patient handling and a Hand
propelled Wheelchair for paraplegic patients.
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Abstract
Wheelchair is one most important
mechanical device designed for the patients to be a
replacement for the walking. Any wheelchair
designed or considered to use should be satisfying
the cause for which it is adopted and at the same
time it should minimize the mental and physical
strains encountered by the patient during its
handling. In most common conditions we do use a
trolley for the patient to rest upon and a wheel chair
to move him. Consider the example, where a patient
on hospital bed undergoing treatment is to be shifted
to an operation theatre, CT Scan, MR Scam or XRay
etc., he undergoes physical handling on shifting
him to a wheelchair and then into a trolley. This is to
being repeated basing on the necessity. For safety of
the patient the manual handling has to be eliminated
to the best possible extent. So we have come up
with an idea of having one mechanical device that
serves both the purposes and it is our Design for a
Trolley cum Wheelchair for patient handling. The
simulation is done as a mini-project work as a part
of our curriculum and it has been a success.