Multi-purpose hospital bed for ebbed bed sore accretion
Date of Publication
2014
Document Type
Bachelor's Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Communications Engineering
College
Gokongwei College of Engineering
Department/Unit
Electronics and Communications Engineering
Thesis Adviser
Argel A. Bandala
Defense Panel Chair
Maria Antonette C. Roque
Defense Panel Member
Ann E. Dulay
Alexander C. Abad
Abstract/Summary
Bedsores or pressure ulcers are severe lesions that are often caused by constant pressure and skin irritation. These lesions mostly occur on bed-ridden patients who don't have the capability to move on their own. In order to avoid it, nurses or aides must regularly move the patients body from time to time to enable the blood to flow and let the skin decrease its time of contact from the bed surface.
To address the problem of bedsores, the researchers have decided to modify the typical hospital bed. The bed was altered in such a way that it has movable panels to help in moving the different parts of the patients body. These incremental panels are then equipped with sensors that will acquire the data of the factors that cause bedsores (i.e. Pressure and Temperature). The gathered data is then processed through the use of a microcontroller which will then relay the course of action to the stepper motors that are responsible for the movement of the incremental panels.
Abstract Format
html
Language
English
Format
Accession Number
TU18739
Shelf Location
Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F, Henry Sy Sr. Hall
Physical Description
1v. (various foliations) : illustrations (some colored) ; 28 cm.
Recommended Citation
Apelo, L. G., Dimalanta, T. C., Macatangay, J. V., Miciano, J. S., & Sayo, M. C. (2014). Multi-purpose hospital bed for ebbed bed sore accretion. Retrieved from https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/11848
