On an ambulance stretcher suspension concerned with the reduction of patient's blood pressure variation

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine

Volumn 211, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 199-208

  Sagawa, K ^a   Inooka, H ^b   Ino oka, E ^a   Takahashi, T ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Ohizumi Memorial Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Ambulance; Blood pressure; Experiment; Simulation; Stretcher

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ACCIDENT PREVENTION; BRAKES; GRAVITATION; HEALTH CARE; HEMODYNAMICS; PATIENT MONITORING; SIMULATION; STRETCHERS;

AMBULANCE STRETCHER SUSPENSION; BLOOD PRESSURE; TILTING ANGLE;

AMBULANCES;

ACCELERATION; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY POSTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; PATIENT TRANSPORT; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

ACCELERATION; AMBULANCES; BLOOD PRESSURE; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POSTURE; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS;

EID: 0030627497     PISSN: 09544119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/0954411971534313     Document Type: Article

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