A Study On Patient Bed For Ergonomic Design

Ghazali, Azlini (2018) A Study On Patient Bed For Ergonomic Design. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

In this research, information’s, journals and article regarding to manual patient handling have been searched for the better understanding and acknowledge. Patient bed is one of the most important facilities in hospital for many benefits as well as for transferring patient and bed rest for the patient. However, an improper design and parameter of the patient affected the healthcare of nursing workers. Musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) represent in of the most frequently occurring and costly occupational issue in nursing. The main goal for this research is to determine the specific parameter for the patient bed in ergonomic design in order to reduce the risk factor that contribute the nursing staff to musculoskeletal disorder. Observation have been conducted on 20 nursing staff from local hospital with the underweight of Body Mass Index. The patient bed also being measured to ensure the parameter of height is fit to all workers. The loads during performing the task must exceed 50kg and above. This study also limited to workers that age 23 years old and above and experienced doing the task for 2 years and above. Moreover, the variation of body posture observed from respondent while during the task were characterized and analyses by using CATIA V5 software. Based on the anthropometric measurement data collected from the respondent, a lifelike manikin was inserted and edited in order to get the exact posture. In this project, three finalized postures of the respondent were taken and analyses by using Rapid Upper Limb Assessment (RULA) and method in CATIA V5. Throughout the RULA scores, the ideal posture of push and pull patient bed was proposed to minimize the risk factor from suffer Musculoskeletal Disorder (MSD). The output of this research would referred by the industrial design of patient bed in order to prevent the MSD among workers.

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