Proning Bed for the Intensive Care Unit
Bazaz, Hamed; Eason, Tom; Habib, Nabeel; Wang, Shaobai
2006-04
Abstract
Acute respiratory distress syndrome is a severe lung dysfunction that requires treatment involving a technique known as pronation therapy. Medical studies and practice have shown this therapy to be beneficial in patient recovery. Unfortunately, the procedure introduces risks for both the patient and nursing staff. Various devices currently available in the market are largely cumbersome, expensive, and inadequate. As a result, the University of Michigan Hospital uses a manual proning process. This requires demanding tasks from a well trained nursing staff. Also, in smaller hospitals, many patients are denied pronation due to the lack of financial resources and staffing experience. The objective of this project is to design and prototype a device that will facilitate the proning process. This can be achieved by making the process safer for the patient, or by making the process easier for the nursing staff without compromising patient safety. Our work on this project is complete, but further design modifications and testing are necessary to market the product.Subjects
ICU Pronation Therapy Patient Recovery Manual
Description
Capstone Design and Manufacturing Experience: Winter 2006
Types
Project
Metadata
Show full item recordCollections
Accessibility: If you are unable to use this file in its current format, please select the Contact Us link and we can modify it to make it more accessible to you.