NTRAHOSPITAL VEHICLE FOR TRANSPORT AND TRANSFER OF OBESE PATIENTS.

摘要

An intrahospital vehicle for transport and transfer of obese patients designed to take a bedridden obese patient, lift the patient up and then lay the patient down onto a receiving stretcher to transfer the patient within a hospital, so that, once the target location has been reached, the patient may be transferred to an operating table, X-ray table, intensive care unit table or the like, and then transferred back to the receiving stretcher to return to the hospital bed, wherein said vehicle comprises a robust main rectangular base structure, mounted on wheels, said structure comprising a lower chassis formed by a rear crossbar (7) and two side rails (5) and (6), from which four corner columns are projected, said columns forming respective guides (12/13/14/15) for sliding a vertically movable lift, defined by a quadrangular base frame that is moved by pushing linear actuators (26) and (27) while, on the rear face of the same main structure, a stretcher (P) receiving the patient to be transferred and transported is arranged, said stretcher built on a structural frame that, at a resting position, is presented in vertical orientation, which may be moved until horizontally positioned on a plane lower than that of the frame of the lift, properly anchored to the intermediate rails of said main structure.