Designing ergonomic interventions for emergency medical services workers-part III: Bed to stairchair transfers

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 581-589

  Lavender, Steven A ^a,c   Conrad, Karen M ^b   Reichelt, Paul A ^b   Kohok, Aniruddha K ^a   Gacki Smith, Jessica ^b  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Back pain; Emergency medical services; Firefighter; Intervention; Low back disorders

Indexed keywords

BENDING MOMENTS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MUSCLE; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT TREATMENT; PERSONNEL;

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES (EMS); FIREFIGHTERS; MUSCULOSKELETAL LOAD; PARAMEDICS;

WHEELCHAIRS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BED; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DREW PEOPLE MOVER; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ERGONOMICS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FIRE FIGHTER; GROUND REACTION FORCE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVENTION STUDY; KINEMATICS; MALE; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; MODEL; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PATIENT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TEAMWORK; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSFER SLING; WHEELCHAIR;

EID: 34249705286     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2006.08.002     Document Type: Article

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