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A indĆŗstria de equipamentos hospitalares tem recebido ao longo das dĆ©cadas mais investimento, acompanhando o desenvolvimento nas Ć”reas da medicina, da enfermagem e tĆ©cnicas de diagnĆ³stico mĆ©dico. Neste sentido, a necessidade de melhoria e otimizaĆ§Ć£o dos equipamentos utilizados nesta indĆŗstria tem sido notĆ³ria, pois o avanƧo tecnolĆ³gico assim o obriga. Este avanƧo tambĆ©m existe para a melhoria das condiƧƵes de trabalho dos colaboradores, tais como implementaĆ§Ć£o de equipamentos que auxiliem as suas tarefas, deixando de fazer esforƧos tĆ£o elevados para executar as tarefas. Este trabalho foi desenvolvido numa empresa de projetos mecĆ¢nicos nacional, que se quer lanƧar numa Ć”rea pouco explorada em Portugal, a indĆŗstria hospitalar. Este trabalho tambĆ©m serĆ” a rampa de lanƧamento da empresa enquanto fabricante de um produto. A empresa percebeu que havia a necessidade de criar um equipamento que ajude os hospitais a ter menos trabalhadores a estarem com baixa mĆ©dica devido Ć movimentaĆ§Ć£o de cargas de elevado peso. Estes trabalhadores com baixa mĆ©dica sĆ£o um encargo extra para a gestĆ£o hospitalar, pois necessita de contratar novos profissionais para colmatar a ausĆŖncia de outros. Neste sentido, o objetivo foi de projetar um equipamento que retirasse a funĆ§Ć£o dos enfermeiros de mover os pacientes de camas para macas, podendo mover os pacientes pelo hospital numa cama, sem necessitar exercer forƧa para movimentar a cama. A este desafio acresceu a diversificaĆ§Ć£o de modelos de camas hospitalares, sendo necessĆ”rio que o equipamento se adapte a todas as camas. Como no resto da indĆŗstria, neste projeto realizou-se vĆ”rias anĆ”lise por elementos finitos para validaĆ§Ć£o da estrutura, havendo tambĆ©m uma otimizaĆ§Ć£o estrutural, para diminuiĆ§Ć£o de custos e diminuiĆ§Ć£o de peso do equipamento.
The hospital equipment industry has received more investment over the decades, following the development in medicine, nursing and medical diagnostic techniques areas. In this sense, the need for equipmentās improvement and optimization used in this industry has been notorious, as the technological advance requires it. This advance also exists for the workingās conditions of employee improvement, such as the implementation of equipment to assist their tasks, leaving to make such high efforts to perform the tasks. This work was developed in a Portuguese engineering design company, which aims to launch itself in a little explored area in Portugal, the hospital industry. This work will also be the launching pad for the company as productās manufacturer. The company realized that there was a need to create equipment that would help hospitals to have fewer workers to be on sick leave due to the handling of heavy loads. These workers with sick leave are an extra burden for hospital management, as they need to hire new professionals to fill the absence of others. In this sense, the objective was to design equipment that would remove the nurses' function of moving patients from beds to stretchers, being able to move patients around the hospital in a bed, without having to exert force to move the bed. Added to this challenge was the diversification of models of hospital beds, making it necessary for the equipment to adapt to all beds. As in the rest of the industry, this project carried out several finite element analyses to validate the structure, and there is also a structural optimization, to reduce costs and reduce the weight of the equipment.
The hospital equipment industry has received more investment over the decades, following the development in medicine, nursing and medical diagnostic techniques areas. In this sense, the need for equipmentās improvement and optimization used in this industry has been notorious, as the technological advance requires it. This advance also exists for the workingās conditions of employee improvement, such as the implementation of equipment to assist their tasks, leaving to make such high efforts to perform the tasks. This work was developed in a Portuguese engineering design company, which aims to launch itself in a little explored area in Portugal, the hospital industry. This work will also be the launching pad for the company as productās manufacturer. The company realized that there was a need to create equipment that would help hospitals to have fewer workers to be on sick leave due to the handling of heavy loads. These workers with sick leave are an extra burden for hospital management, as they need to hire new professionals to fill the absence of others. In this sense, the objective was to design equipment that would remove the nurses' function of moving patients from beds to stretchers, being able to move patients around the hospital in a bed, without having to exert force to move the bed. Added to this challenge was the diversification of models of hospital beds, making it necessary for the equipment to adapt to all beds. As in the rest of the industry, this project carried out several finite element analyses to validate the structure, and there is also a structural optimization, to reduce costs and reduce the weight of the equipment.
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Equipamento hospitalar MĆ©todo dos elementos finitos MovimentaĆ§Ć£o de camas hospitalares Projeto hospitalar Projeto mecĆ¢nico OtimizaĆ§Ć£o estrutural Hospital equipment Finite elements method Hospital bed movement Hospital project Mechanical project Structural optimization