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FEASIBILITY STUDY AND CONCEPTUAL DESIGN OF A STRETCHER-BATH TO HOSPITALAR APPLICATION
Abstract
This work presents a systematic study of the bed bath limitations in hospital environments either for patients with restricted movement and for health professionals. Based on the main requirements it is proposed a conceptual design of a bath stretcher. In the Brazilian public hospital system, patients who have restricted movements for locomotion are not efficiently, comfortably and adequate hygiene. The bed bath hygiene is the practice mostly used for hospitalized patients with smaller or larger movement restriction and the patient can be partially or completely cleaned. During the development of medical products, engineering design must consider aspects of ergonomics, reliability, and interface with users (patients and health professionals) and also aspects of costs, focusing in design, manufacturing and maintenance. In order to identify such limitations it was used a designing tool methodology called QFD (Quality Function Deployment). QFD allows for the users and technical team to have interactions during the early stage of the product design. This interaction is responsible for the incorporation into the technical solutions the main needs of users for a higher quality of the final product. This study identifies the main technical characteristics of both a mechanical device to transfer patients from stretcher-bed and bathing area and also a conceptual design of a stretcher-bed.
Paper Details
PaperID: p 1792-1808
Author's Name: Ismael Motta Barbosa, Maria Aparecida Tonussi, Matheus Stoshy de Freitas, Pedro Yoshito Noritomi, Jorge Vicente Lopes da Silva and Zilda de Castro Silveira
Volume: Volume 5
Issues: Volume 5
Keywords: Stretcher-bath; Quality Function Deployment; design development, hospital devices; nursing care.
Year: 2015
Month: March
Pages: 1792-1808