International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET)
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Volume: 04 Issue: 03 | Mar -2017
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AUTOMATIC STRETCHER CUM WHEELCHAIR Akshay Hirudkar#1 , Chetan Bhusari#2 ,Akshay Khedkar#3,Akshay Parekar#4 , Prof.S.P. Daf#5 1234Student, 5Asst.
Dept. Of Mechanical Engineering, PBCOE, Maharashtra, India
Professor, Dept. Of Mechanical Engineering, PBCOE, Maharashtra, India
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Abstract - Nowadays, in India the number of disabled
individuals is increasing every year. For patients mobility aids are useful for transportation and a replacement for walking especially in indoor and outdoor environment as well. Wheelchairs and stretchers are commonly used medical equipments for the transportation. There is always an issue faced by the attendant or nurse of transferring the patients from wheelchair to stretcher or to the medical bed. Understanding the various issues regarding the mobility equipment and introducing a better design will be an asset for the medical field for disabled individuals. The need for a wheelchair cum stretcher to facilitate the disabled patient’s mobility and to provide a novel medical equipment for use in the hospitals. Adopting various kinds of research were helped to obtain more information about hospital mobility aids and for data collection. The numbers of disabled individuals are increasing by different kinds of accidents are being observed every year. Presently wheelchairs and stretcher are the commonly used mobility aid for all purpose wherever needed. After the user study the asset of a need of wheelchair cum stretcher was found out for the Indian hospitals. The presently used wheelchair and stretcher design is not meeting the user’s need. From the identified need, new features like convertible wheelchair which can be converted into stretcher is introduced which can be control by electrical system. Key Words: Latest inventions in wheelchair and stretcher, Mobility aid device, Wheelchair cum Stretcher, Convertible type, Safety.
1.INTRODUCTION
A wheelchair is a wheeled by mobility device designed especially for disabled individuals. The device is propelled either manually or via various automated systems. Wheelchairs are used by that people for whom walking is impossible due to some problems physiological or physical. Huge amount of people have congenital disabilities, so the percentage of the victim of accidents and that is the inevitable part of their life. Mobility scooters for more severe disability or longer journeys are used. Mobilizing or shifting of patient from wheelchair to stretcher or vice versa causes discomfort. With the help of this wheelchair cum stretcher a patient can be seated on wheelchair on which he can also be operated by converting it to © 2017, IRJET
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stretcher also it will be convenient for hospital staff to move a patient, also it will be easy if we provide a electrical system to control the overall movement and functioning of stretcher cum wheelchair. Understanding various issues regarding mobility equipment, the better design will be an asset for medical field and helping hand for disabled individual. The present project proposes a development of wheelchair cum stretcher with ability to transfer patients from normal staircase also with automated electronic control over stretcher cum wheelchair for movement and functioning. Self proceed wheels invention was created enormous demand in the market and it was better helping aid for the disabled individuals..These will be one of the walking aids which can help with impaired ability to walk using wheelchairs for the disabled peoples.
Figure 1. Wheelchair
2. LITERATURE SURVEY [1] Jerin Joseph John…, ettal “MULTIPURPOSE MEDICAL BED” Our country, India is seeing a tremendous rise in the number or disabled personalities. Mobility aids are useful for patients for transportation and it’s a substitute for patients for walking in environments both indoor and outdoor. Wheelchairs and stretchers or medical beds are usually employed medical equipment for the transportation of patients..Thus a need arises for a wheelchair cum stretcher cum medical bed to facilitate the disabled patient’s mobility and to provide a simple cheaper and an efficient medical equipment for use in the Indian hospitals. Hence our project “MULTIPURPOSE MEDICAL BED” is introduced to solve problems related to the conventional medical care equipment and would be cheap and affordable and could be efficiently used in hospitals to save space, time and to provide better care to the required.
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