A robotized hospital bed for COVID-19 patients in intensive care treatments

ABSTRACT

Patients in bed for clinical situations and specially in COVI19 treatments need special assistance with suitable bed configuration motion both to help therapies and physical conditions. Hospital beds are designed to ensure static safe configuration of patients mostly in supine position with some motion capability in elevating trunk or legs. More capability is today requested for permitting bedded patients to avoid inconveniences up to further accidents and to facilitate therapy treatments and clinical conditions. A robotized design solution for hospital beds with movable segments is proposed for patients of COVID-19 in intensive and sub-intensive care treatments with the aim to help therapies and motion treatments for better physical conditions. The proposed design is analyzed in terms of mechanism structure and motion operation towards medical effects that can be appreciated as supporting/mitigating critical conditions in hospital applications. © 2021 IEEE.